Federal motorway 8 - Bundesautobahn 8

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The Federal motorway 8 (BAB 8 or A 8) is a federal trunk road, which in three separate sections from the Germanluxembourgish Limit at Pearl, here on the Luxembourg motorway A13 then, about MerzigSaarlouis, Neunkirchen and Zweibrücken to Pirmasens leads, a gap up there Karlsruhe has, again at the triangle Karlsruhe from the Federal motorway 5 goes off and over Pforzheim, StuttgartUlm and augsburg to Munich leads, ends there on the western outskirts, and the third section begins in Munich-Ramersdorf and the over Rosenheim and on the south bank of the Chiemsee along to the GermanAustrian Limit at Salzburg leads. In Austria the West HighwayA1 their continuation.

From the Luxembourg border to Saarlouis, the motorway forms part of the European route 29, from Karlsruhe to the Austrian border part of the European route 52 and at the same time from Munich to the Inntal triangle of the European route 45 and from the Inntal triangle of the European route 60.

The total length of the motorway is 505 km.

background

In the 1930s, a large part of the motorway was completed as a prestige project with a spectacular route, especially in the foothills of the Alps. The construction between Karlsruhe and the Austrian border was completed between 1936 and 1939. The construction between Perl and Pirmasens took place between 1971 and 2018 (second lane west of Merzig). The initially planned gap closure through the Palatinate Forest was abandoned, instead the federal highway will be used B10 generously developed and conveyed together with the south branch of the Federal motorway 65 and the Karlsruhe Southern bypass the closure. The motorway ring connects near Munich Federal Motorway 99 the two separate branches.

traffic

The six-lane expansion between Karlsruhe and Munich has been largely completed except for the Alb crossing and sections near Pforzheim and Ulm. The section from Munich to the Inntal triangle is almost entirely developed with six lanes.

The 13 km long section of the Austrian West Highway from the German border at Walserberg to the motorway exit "Salzburg-Nord" is different from the other motorways and expressways in Austria (with few exceptions around Kufstein and in the Rhine Valley) (again) from the time-dependent Toll excluded (since the end of 2019).[1]

Regions

Saarland, Westrich, Northern Black Forest, Stuttgart region, Swabian Alb, Danube Valley, Central Swabia, Wittelsbacher Land, Munich area, Chiemgau, Rupertiwinkel

Route description

Border bridge over the Moselle
Multi-storey car park at Stuttgart Airport (photo 2015)
Lämmerbuckeltunnel in the Swabian Alb (photo 2008)
Information board Wacholderheiden Aichen
Mangfall Bridge near Weyarn (photo 2014)
German-Austrian border on Walserberg (photo 2010)

The route is described from west to east (direction of travel east = Arrow right). A detailed list of junction points, parking spaces and other tourist facilities can be found here.

From the German-Luxembourg border to the Pirmasens-Winzeln junction

From the triangle Karlsruhe to the Stuttgart junction

From the Stuttgart junction to the Ulm / Elchingen junction

From the Ulm / Elchingen junction to the Munich-Obermenzing junction

From the Munich-Ramersdorf junction to the Inntal triangle

From the Inntal triangle to the German-Austrian border

security

There is a particularly high risk of congestion around Pforzheim and Stuttgart and on the Alb as well as in holiday traffic east of Munich!

trips

Altar in Tiefenbronn
Fürstenfeld Monastery

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑https://www.adac.de/verkehr/oesterreich-teilstrecken-mautfrei/
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Motorways in Germany

Main routes:A 1 · A 2 · A 3 · A 4 · A 5 · A 6 · A 7 · A 8 · A 9
Supraregional:A 10 · A 11 · A 12 · A 13 · A 14 · A 15 · A 17 · A 19 --- A 20 · A 21 · A 23 · A 24 · A 25 · A 26 · A 27 · A 28 · A 29 --- A 30 · A 31 · A 33 · A 36 · A 37 · A 38 · A 39 --- A 40 · A 42 · A 43 · A 44 · A 45 · A 46 · A 48 --- A 52 · A 57 · A 59 --- A 60 · A 61 · A 62 · A 63 · A 64 · A 65 · A 66 · A 67 --- A 70 · A 71 · A 72 · A 73 --- A 81 --- A 92 · A 93 · A 94 · A 95 · A 96 · A 98 · A 99 ·

see also the guidelines for trunk roads
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