The Federal motorway 17 (BAB 17 or A 17, also as Via Porta Bohemica known), also part of Europastraße 55, leads from the Federal motorway 4 West of Dresden in a southeasterly direction to the border of Czech Republicwhere to get into the freeway w: Dálnice 8 passes that after Prague leads.
The total length of the motorway is 45 km.
background
The motorway was built between 1998 and 2006, the completion of the continuation in the Czech Republic was delayed until December 2016.
Regions
Saxon Switzerland, Eastern Ore Mountains
traffic
The motorway has - also in its Czech continuation - several tunnels with speed limits.
Attention: Dálnice 8 is in the Czech Republic vignette required! The vignette can be purchased in a parking lot at the last German exit Bad Gottleuba. More information [1]
Route description
The route is described from north to south (direction of travel south = 
). A detailed list of junction points, parking spaces and other tourist facilities can be found here.
- (1) Triangle Dresden-West (Federal motorway 4)
- (2)
Dresden-Gorbitz (Bundesstrasse 173) - (3) Dresden-Südvorstadt (Bundesstrasse 170)
- (6) Pirna (Bundesstrasse 172a)
- (8) Bad Gottleuba
- Czech border (w: Dálnice 8)
security
trips
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- Dresden with the Dresden Elbe Valley
- Heidenau with the baroque garden Großsedlitz
- Pirna and the Saxon Switzerland
