Bundesstraße 71

B79
B79
Bundesstraße 79
	Near Bremervörde
Route information
Length	391 km (243 mi)
Major junctions
Northwest end	B 6 in Bremerhaven
Southeast end	Könnern near Halle (Saale) in Saxony-Anhalt
Location
States	Bremen, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt
Highway system
	Roads in Germany; Autobahns List; ; Federal List; ; State; E-roads;

The Bundesstraße 71 (abbr: B 71) is one of the longer German federal roads numbered in the 60s and 70s series. It begins at the B 6 in Bremerhaven by the Unterweser and ends in Könnern near Halle (Saale) in Saxony-Anhalt. To begin with it is one of the east-west links across the Elbe-Weser Triangle and runs in a gentle curve via Bremervörde (48 km, briefly with the ) and Zeven (71 km) over the Hansa Line A 1 (83 km) to the district town of Rotenburg (Wümme) (97 km). Here it crosses the B 75 and continues past the Lüneburg Heath to Soltau (133 km), where it crosses the B 3. Carrying on towards the east it runs through heathland to Uelzen (190 km), where the road again crosses another major federal route, the B 4. Next it runs through the Elbufer-Drawehn Nature Park and crosses the old Inner German Border and present-day state border between Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt at kilometre marker 222.

In Salzwedel (233 km the B 71 leaves the Wendland to the left and swings southeast. In the Altmark it passes through villages and sparsely populated heathland. At Gardelegen it meets the B 188. After Gardelegen it heads south passing for 30 km through the . After 335 km the B 71 enters Magdeburg, where it crosses the A 14, A 2 and B 1, and passes through the old cathedral city in a north-south direction as part of the . Next it runs on for 56 km as the Romanesque Road (Straße der Romanik) through the heart of the Anhalt country until, at Könnern, it meets and joins the B 6 again, the road it left at Bremerhaven, 26 km before Halle, the largest city in Sachsen-Anhalt.

The whole route is 391 km long.

Bundesstraße 71

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