Bundesstraße 4

The Bundesstraße 4 (abbr. B4) is a German federal highway running in a northwesterly to southerly direction from the state of Schleswig-Holstein to Bavaria. It provides a direct route for motorists traveling between Hamburg and Nuremberg.

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B 4
Bundesstraße 4
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Route information
Length610 km (380 mi)
Major junctions
Major intersections
Bad Bramstedt B 206
Lentföhrden
Bilsen
Quickborn
Hasloh
Bönningstedt
Hamburg-Schnelsen B 447 B 432
(21) Hamburg-Eidelstedt A 23

replaced by A 23 A 7

common carriageway with the B 5
(26) Hamburg-Stellingen A 7 / E45

Hamburg-Eimsbüttel B 5
Hamburg-Altona-Nord B 431
Hamburg-St. Pauli
Hamburg-Rothenburgsort B 75

common carriageway with the B 75
Motor road
Motor road
Kraftfahrstraße
Hamburg-Rothenburgsort
New Elbe Bridge 304,70 m
Hamburg-Veddel
End of the motor road
End of the motor road
end of motor road

continues via A 255

(36) Hamburg-Süd 4-way interchange A 1 / E22, A 252 A 255 B 75

continues via A 252
(4) Hamburg-Georgswerder Services

Motor road
Motor road
Kraftfahrstraße
Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg West
(3) Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg Süd A 253
End of the motor road
End of the motor road
end of motor road

continues via A 253
Europa Bridge (Hamburg) 471 m
(4) Hamburg-Neuland
(5) Hamburg-Harburg Mitte B 73

(6) Hamburg-Wilstorf A 253 B 75
Hamburg-Wilstorf
(35) Fleestedt A 7 / E45

replaced by A 7 A 39

(2) Maschen A 39
Stelle
Winsen (Luhe)
Diversion
Diversion
Handorf local diversion B 404
Bardowick
(6) Lüneburg-Nord (transition to B 4)
Motor road
Motor road
Kraftfahrstraße
Lüneburg Artlenburger Landstraße B 209
common carriageway with the B 209
Lüneburg Erbstorfer Landstraße
Lüneburg Dahlenburger Landstraße B 216
Lüneburg-Kaltenmoor
Deutsch Evern
Lüneburg-Häcklingen B 209
parking area
Lüneburg Heath
End of the motor road
End of the motor road
end of motor road
Melbeck
Bienenbüttel
Jelmstorf
Diversion
Diversion
Bad Bevensen local diversion
Tätendorf-Eppensen
Motor road
Motor road
Kraftfahrstraße
Uelzen Rippendorf
Uelzen Wendlandstraße B 191
common carriageway with the B 191
Uelzen Salzwedeler Straße B 71
Uelzen Esterholzer Straße
Holdenstedt
End of the motor road
End of the motor road
end of motor road
parking area
Breitenhees B 191
Sprakensehl
Crossing B 244
Motor road
Motor road
Kraftfahrstraße
Gifhorn Bromer Straße B 188
Gifhorn Alfred-Bessler Straße B 188
parking area
End of the motor road
End of the motor road
end of motor road
Rötgesbüttel
Meine
Motor road
Motor road
Kraftfahrstraße
Braunschweig Thune
End of the motor road
End of the motor road
end of motor road
Autobahn
(1) Braunschweig-Wenden A 391

Replaced by the A 391, A 39, A 395und B 6


Intersection Bad Harzburg 3-way interchange B 6
Bad Harzburg
Abzw. Oderteich B 242
Motor road
Motor road
Kraftfahrstraße
common carriageway with the B 242
Braunlage Nord
parking area
Braunlage Süd B 27
End of the motor road
End of the motor road
end of motor road
Crossing Sorge B 242
bei Tanne B 242
Harzquerbahn
Hohegeiß
Ilfeld B 81
Nordhausen B 80
(11) Nordhausen A 38
Sondershausen B 249
Sondershausen Castle
Straußfurt B 86 B 176
Motor road
Motor road
Kraftfahrstraße
Andislebener Kreuz B 176
Elxleben
Kühnhausen
Kreuz (10) Erfurt-Gispersleben interchange A 71
Erfurt-Gispersleben
Erfurt-Straße der Nationen
Erfurt-Andreasvorstadt
Erfurt-Binderslebener Knie
End of the motor road
End of the motor road
end of motor road
Erfurt B 7
Erfurter Dom
(46) Erfurt-West A 4 E40

Replaced by the A 71


Ilmenau B 88 B 87
Rennsteig
Schleusingen B 247
(5) Eisfeld-Nord A 73

Replaced by the A 73


Motor road
Motor road
Kraftfahrstraße
Intersection () Coburg-Nord 3-way interchange A 73
Coburg-Lautertal / Lauterer Höhe
Coburg-Bertelsdorf/-Neuses/-Glend
Coburg-Beiersdorf
Coburg-Weitramsdorf
Coburg-Thüringer Viertel
Coburg-Zentrum
Veste Coburg
Schweinfurt/Hofheim B 303
Coburg-Süd
Kronach/Hof B 303
Creidlitz/Meschenbach/Niederfüllbach
Untersiemau
Intersection () Coburg-Süd 3-way interchange B 289 to the A 73
End of the motor road
End of the motor road
end of motor road
Hilkersdorf
Rattelsdorf A 73
Breitengüßbach B 279
Kemmern A 73
Hallstadt
(15) Hallstadt (bei Bamberg) A 70 E48

Replaced by the A 73


(33) Erlangen-Bruck A 73
Erlangen
Motor road
Motor road
Kraftfahrstraße
Erlangen Kurt-Schumacher-Straße
Tennenlohe
(84) Erlangen-Tennenlohe A 3 E45
Großgründlach
End of the motor road
End of the motor road
end of motor road
Nürnberg-Großgründlach
Nürnberg-Buch
Crossing Nordring/Nordwestring B 4 R

replaced by the B 4 R

Nürnberg B 2 B 8 B 14

Crossing Regensburger Straße B 4 R
(52) Nürnberg-Fischbach A 9 E45
Location
CountryGermany
StatesSchleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Thuringia, Bavaria
Highway system
  • Roads in Germany

The section north of Hamburg is paralleled by Bundesautobahn 7 and the road is down-graded to a Landstraße (country road); the section between Hallstadt and Erlangen is paralleled by the A 70 and A 73 and is also down-graded to a Staatsstraße (state road, same as country road).

Building of the Fernverkehrsstraße 4 (long distance road) near Erfurt in 1971.

The Bundesstraße 4 is the former Reichsstraße 4 (imperial road), on which north of Quickborn the last Commanding Admiral of the Kriegsmarine Friedeburg met with officers of the 2nd British Army to negotiate a truce with the Western Allied forces on 4 May 1945.

See also


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