Bundesstraße 3

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B 3
Bundesstraße 3
Route information
Length	755 km (469 mi)
Major junctions
Major intersections
v t e B 3 Route Map Lower Saxony Project B 3n (Junction ) Landkreis Stade (Registration plates: STD ) Buxtehude-Ovelgönne B 73 Harburg (Registration plates: WL ) Neu Wulmstorf-Elstorf Neu Wulmstorf-Rade Neu Wulmstorf-Mienenbüttel (44) Rade A 1 E22 Buchholz in der Nordheide B 75 Buchholz-Sprötze Welle-Höckel Welle (Mitte) Soltau-Fallingbostel (Registration plates: SFA ) Wintermoor an der Chaussee Schneverdingen-Heber Soltau-Huckenrieth Soltau-Ahlften Soltau (Zentrum) B 71 (45) Soltau-Süd A 7 E45 Wietzendorf Landkreis Celle (Registration plates: CE ) Bergen-Wardböhmen Bergen-Bleckmar Bergen (Zentrum) Bergen-Belsen Bergen-Offen start of Project B 3n Winsen-Wolthausen Celle-Groß Hehlen Celle (Zentrum) B 191 B 214 Kraftfahrstraße Adelheidsdorf Nienhagen end of Project B 3n Region Hannover (Registration plates: H ) Burgdorf-Otze Burgdorf-Schillerslage B 443 Burgdorf B 188 (2) Beinhorn A 37 replaced by the A 37 (3) Hannover/Kirchhorst interchange A 7 (4) Hannover-Buchholz interchange A 2 (5) Misburg A 37 Hannover-Weidetor Hannover-Pferdeturm/Zentrum Hannover-Bult () Seelhorster Kreuz B 6 B 65 Hannover-Döhren/Stadtmitte Leine Hannover-Ricklingen B 6 B 65 Hemmingen-Westerfeld Hemmingen-Arnum Pattensen local diversion B 443 Pattensen-Thiedenwiese Landkreis Hildesheim (Registration plates: HI ) Adensen Wülfingen Elze (Zentrum) local diversion B 1 Gronau (Leine) B 240 L482 Dehnsen bei Alfeld Godenau Alfeld-Limmer Alfeld (Leine) (Zentrum) Landkreis Holzminden (Registration plates: HOL ) Delligsen Ammensen Landkreis Northeim (Registration plates: NOM ) Einbeck local diversion B 64 Hohnstedt (69) Northeim-Nord A 7 E45 Northeim B 241 B 248 Nörten-Hardenberg B 446 Landkreis Göttingen (Registration plates: GÖ ) Bovenden Nord Bovenden Göttingen-Weende B 27 A 7 common route with B 27 Göttingen (Zentrum) B 27 A 7 (73) Göttingen A 7 E45 Göttingen-Groß Ellershausen Dransfeld Scheden-Niederscheden Hann. Münden-Volkmarshausen Hann. Münden (Zentrum) B 80 B 496 Hesse Landkreis Kassel (Registration plates: KS ) Fuldatal-Wilhelmshausen Fuldatal-Wahnhausen Fuldatal-Ihringshausen local diversion Kassel (Registration plates: KS ) Kassel B 7 B 83 B 251 B 520 (5) Kassel-Auestadion A 49 replaced by the A 49 (7) Südkreuz Kassel A 44 E331 Schwalm-Eder-Kreis (Registration plates: HR ) (16) Borken (Hessen) A 49 L3223 Borken-Kerstenhausen Bad Zwesten B 485 L3074 Jesberg Gilserberg-Sebbeterode Gilserberg Gilserberg-Lischeid Marburg-Biedenkopf (Registration plates: MR ) Rauschenberg-Josbach Wohra Rauschenberg-Schöne Aussicht Cölbe-Schönstadt Bürgeln B 62 common route with the B 62 () Cölbe B 62 B 252 Marburg-Wehrda Marburg-Messe Marburg-Hauptbahnhof Hochstraße 800m Universitätsstadt Marburg Marburg-Mitte Tankstelle parking area Tankstelle Marburg-Süd B 255 Lahn Marburg-Gisselberg / Niederweimar-Nord Weimar (Lahn)-Niederweimar Lahn Bridge 300m Weimar (Lahn)-Roth Fronhausen / Ebsdorfer Grund Tiefenbach Valley Bridge 250m Landkreis Gießen (Registration plates: GI ) Staufenberg-Nord Staufenberg-Süd / Lollar Talbrücke Lumda 400m (1) Gießener Nordkreuz A 480 A 485 replaced by the A 485 (10) Langgöns A 485 Wetteraukreis (Registration plates: FB ) Butzbach A 5 B 488 Bad Nauheim Friedberg (Hessen) local diversion B 275 B 455 Wöllstadt-Ober-Wöllstadt Wöllstadt-Nieder-Wöllstadt B 45 Karben Bad Vilbel-Dortelweil Bad Vilbel/Nieder-Erlenbach Bad Vilbel Frankfurt (Registration plates: F ) (8) Preungesheimer Dreieck A 661 replaced by the A 661 (9) FFM - Friedberger Landstraße A 661 B 521 Frankfurt B 8 B 40 Ignatz Bubis Bridge/Flößer Bridge Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen B 43 Offenbach am Main (Registration plates: OF ) (17) Offenbacher Kreuz A 3, A 661 B 46 Landkreis Offenbach (Registration plates: OF ) replaced by the A 661 (21) Egelsbach (Mitte) A 661 Egelsbach-Bayerseich Darmstadt (Registration plates: DA ) Darmstadt-Wixhausen Darmstadt (Zentrum) B 42 B 26 (27) Pfungstadt A 5 E35 B 426 From here the B 3 runs parallel to the A 5. Bickenbach Kreis Bergstraße (Registration plates: HP ) Zwingenberg Bensheim B 47 Heppenheim (Bergstraße) B 460 Baden-Württemberg Rhein-Neckar-Kreis (Registration plates: HD ) Laudenbach Hemsbach Weinheim-Sulzbach Weinheim (Zentrum) B 38 Weinheim-Lützelsachsen Hirschberg-Großsachsen Hirschberg-Leutershausen Schriesheim Dossenheim Heidelberg (Registration plates: HD ) Heidelberg-Handschuhsheim Heidelberg-Neuenheim Theodor Heuss Bridge Heidelberg B 37 Heidelberg-Rohrbach Rhein-Neckar-Kreis (Registration plates: HD ) Leimen-Nord Leimen-Nordwest B 535 Leimen-Zentrum Leimen-Sankt Ilgen Nußloch Wiesloch-Nord Wiesloch-West Wiesloch Landkreis Karlsruhe (Registration plates: KA ) Bad Schönborn-Mingolsheim Bad Schönborn (Mitte) B 292 Bad Schönborn-Langenbrücken Ubstadt-Weiher-Stettfeld Ubstadt Bruchsal B 35 Bruchsal-Untergrombach Weingarten (Baden) Karlsruhe (Registration plates: KA ) Karlsruhe-Durlach B 10 A 5 Wolfartsweier local diversion Landkreis Karlsruhe (Registration plates: KA ) Ettlingen-Nordwest (47) Ettlingen A 5 (48) Karlsruhe-Süd A 5 Ettlingen-West Bruchhausen Malsch-Neumalsch Landkreis Rastatt (Registration plates: RA ) Muggensturm local diversion Start of Project B 3n see Infobox B 3n below Rastatt B 36 B 462 Baden-Baden (Registration plates: BAD ) (50) Rastatt-Süd A 5 Baden-Baden-Haueneberstein Baden-Baden-Sandweier Baden-Baden-Oos B 500 Landkreis Rastatt (Registration plates: RA ) Sinzheim Baden-Baden (Registration plates: BAD ) Mührich Steinbach Landkreis Rastatt (Registration plates: RA ) Bühl Hatzenweier Ottersweier Ortenaukreis (Registration plates: OG ) Sasbach Achern (Zentrum) end of Project B 3n Achern-Fautenbach Renchen Appenweier-Urloffen Appenweier (Mitte) B 28 Offenburg B 33 B 33a Hohberg-Hofweier Hohberg-Niederschopfheim Friesenheim Lahr/Schwarzwald (Zentrum) B 36 B 415 Lahr-Mietersheim Kippenheim Mahlberg Ettenheim-Altdorf Kappel-Grafenhausen Ringsheim Landkreis Emmendingen (Registration plates: EM ) Herbolzheim Kenzingen Teningen-Köndringen Emmendingen (Zentrum) Emmendingen-Wasser Denzlingen Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald (Registration plates: FR ) Gundelfingen B 294 Freiburg im Breisgau (Registration plates: FR ) Freiburg B 31 B 31a Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald (Registration plates: FR ) Schallstadt Ehrenkirchen-Norsingen Bad Krozingen local diversion Staufen im Breisgau Heitersheim Buggingen-Seefelden Buggingen (Mitte) Müllheim-Hügelheim Müllheim (Zentrum) B 378 Auggen Landkreis Lörrach (Registration plates: LÖ ) Schliengen Kandern-Tannenkirch Efringen-Kirchen-Welmlingen Schallbach-Egringen (2) Eimeldingen A 98 E54 Weil am Rhein-Haltingen B 532 Weil am Rhein (Zentrum) B 317 (CH) Weil-Otterbach border crossing Continues to Basel Hauptstrasse 3
Location
Country	Germany
States	Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Hesse, Baden-Württemberg
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The Bundesstraße 3 (abbr. B3) is one of the longest federal highways in Germany. It begins in Buxtehude and continues through Bergen, Celle, Hanover, Alfeld, Einbeck, Göttingen, Kassel, Marburg, Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe and Freiburg in southwestern Germany and ends at Weil-Otterbach on the border with Switzerland. Between Darmstadt and Wiesloch it is referred to as Ferienstraße Bergstraße.

• Bundesländer: Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Hesse, Baden-Württemberg
• Length: 755 km (469 miles)

The Bundesstraße 3 is the latest incarnation of a trade route that has been in use since the Middle Ages. The stretch between Frankfurt and Heidelberg belonged to the Archbishop of Mainz until 1461. Thereafter it was a part of the Electorate of the Palatinate until 1651. In 1661 the Archbishop of Mainz and Hesse-Darmstadt agreed to divide the toll revenue: the Archbishophric controlled the road between Frankfurt and Heppenheim when the Frankfurt Fair took place, and Hesse-Darmstadt controlled the route at all other times.

Because of its importance to trade, in 1759 the portions immediately north and south of Heidelberg were turned into fixed roads. As the local compulsory laborers did not have the skills necessary for the construction of a high quality road, skilled road workers and engineers were recruited from Allgäu to finish the project in 1763. By 1771 the portion around Freiburg im Breisgau was also completed.

In the northern portion between Hanover and Göttingen, the second oldest road in northern Germany replaced the old dirt path in 1768 (the present-day B 217 between Hannover and Hameln already had opened two years previously as first road in Northern Germany). A decade later (1777) the stretch between Göttingen and Kassel was likewise modernised.

The road from Frankfurt to Basel was designated as Badische Staatsstraße (National Road) No 1.

In the early numbering system of 1932, the Reichsstraße 3 continued in what is today the stretch between Hamburg and Lübeck. This northern segment became a part of the extended Reichsstraße 75 in 1937.

While in the north the B 3 is straight and at times, namely between Celle and Hanover, built like an autobahn, south of Hanover it becomes narrower and more curvy.

Between Göttingen and Kassel the B 3 is quite curvy, but also picturesquely set against the central German landscape.

Although the stretch from Borken to Marburg is particularly irregular, it is frequently used by tractor trailers from the direction of Frankfurt that want to bypass the mountains and hills around Kassel. From Marburg to Gießen the B 3 is again built like an autobahn.

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• List of federal highways in Germany

• Niedersachsen On the B-3-Umgehung Hemmingen
• From Hassell, William, Das Kurfürstenthum Hannover vom Baseler Frieden bis zur preußischen Occupation im Jahre 1806 – nach archivalischen und handschriftlichen Quellen English: The Electorate of Hanover by the Basel peace to the Prussian Occupation in 1806 - according to archival and manuscript sources, Hanover 1894, p. 86
• Als Bundes-Mord-Straße – In: Der SPIEGEL, H.45, 1952.
• Geschäftsbericht des Großherzoglich Badischen Ministeriums des Innern, Karlsruhe: Ferdinand Thiergarten (Badische Presse) 1907, p. 247 or Annual Report of the Grand Ducal Baden Ministry of the Interior, Karlsruhe: Ferdinand animal garden (Badische Presse).
• Land sperrt 400 km Straße für Lkws, Truck Road, 7 July 2006.

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