Bundesstraße 8

B8
Bundesstraße 8
Route information
Length	800 km (500 mi)
Major junctions
Northwest end	Emmerich am Rhein
Southeast end	Passau
Location
States	North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, Bavaria
Highway system
Roads in Germany Autobahns List Federal List State E-roads

The Bundesstraße 8 (abbr. B8) is a German federal highway in southwestern Germany of great historical importance. It has existed since the 9th century, known then as Via Publica, and until recent times was a key trade route linking the towns of Brussels, Duisburg, Cologne, Frankfurt, Würzburg, Nuremberg, Regensburg and Passau. Today it has been replaced as a main route by the A3 motorway which runs parallel to it.

History[]

The Via Publica (later known as the Poststraße or Handelsstraße) was first mentioned in 839 in a diploma of Louis the Pious. In the Middle Ages it joined the commercial cities of Cologne, Frankfurt, Nuremberg and Regensburg. The Steinerne Brücke bridge in Regensburg (1135-46), the Innbrücke bridge in Passau (1143), the Lahnbrücke bridge in Limburg (completed 1341) and the main bridges in Würzburg (1133), Frankfurt (before 1222) and Kitzingen (before 1300) are among the oldest stone bridges in central Europe and testify to the historical importance of this road.

In 1615 the general postmaster Lamoral von Taxis was tasked by emperor Matthias with setting up a postal route between Brussels and Prague, via Frankfurt and Nuremberg. To achieve this the Via Publica was expanded to a Poststraße. The present day Bundesstraße 8 is largely identical to the Via Publica. The medieval trade route largely used dry level roads rather than the valleys, which were swampy and impassible after rain. Part of the Via Publcia was referred to as the Mauspfad.

Route / Junctions[]

		from Arnhem
	(NL)	border crossing
North Rhine-Westphalia
		Elten
		Emmerich am Rhein
		Rees
		Wesel
	(1)	Dinslaken-West A 59
replaced by L1
		Düsseldorf-Wittlaer
		Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth
		Düsseldorf-Lohausen
	(30)	Düsseldorf-Stockum A 44
		Düsseldorf-Derendorf B 1/ B 7
	(23)	Düsseldorf-Bilk B 326 A 46
replaced by A 46 A 59
		Düsseldorf-Benrath
	(23)	Düsseldorf-Garath A 59
		Langenfeld
	(2)	Langenfeld-Reusrath A 542
		Opladen
	(22)	Opladen A 3
		Leverkusen-Wiesdorf
		Leverkusen A 1
		Cologne B 51 B 55
	(31)	A 59
	(36)	A 59
		Siegburg
replaced by L333
replaced by A 560
	(7)	Hennef (Sieg)-Ost A 560
Rheinland-Pfalz
		Altenkirchen (Westerwald)
		Höchstenbach
		Hahn am See
		Wallmerod
Hesse
		Limburg an der Lahn B 54/
		Lahn
		Tunnel 240 m
	(43)	Limburg-Süd A 3
		Bad Camberg
		Waldems-Esch
		Königstein B 455
		Kraftfahrstraße
		Kelkheim
		Bad Soden
		Sulzbach
		end of motor road
	(16)	Frankfurt-Höchst A 66
replaced by A 66
	(18)	Eschborner 3-way interchange A 648
replaced by A 648
	(3)	Westkreuz Frankfurt A 5
	(5)	Katharinenkreisel (formerly Opelrondell)
	(-)	Frankfurt-Messe A 648
	(21)	Frankfurt-Miquelallee A 66
		Frankfurt am Main B 3
	(14)	Frankfurt-Ost A 661
	(33)	Maintal-Bischofsheim A 66
replaced by A 66
	(36)	Hanau-Nord B 45 A 66
	(37)	Erlensee interchange A 66
		Hanau-Lamboy
		Hanau
		Hanau
		Hanau-Wolfgang
Bayern
		Kahl
		Karlstein
	(45b)	Kleinostheim A 45
		Kleinostheim
	(58)	Aschaffenburg-West A 3
		Mainaschaff
		Kraftfahrstraße
		Mainaschaff-Ost/
		end of motor road
		Aschaffenburg B 26
replaced by A 3
	(65)	Marktheidenfeld A 3
		Main
		Marktheidenfeld
	(67)	Helmstadt B 468 A 3
		Würzburg B 27
		Main
		bei Rottendorf 3-way interchange B 22
	(72)	Rottendorf A 3
		Biebelried-West
	(103)	Kitzingen A 7
		Kitzingen
		Main
		Enzlar
		Barred to lorry traffic
		Open to lorry traffic
		Neustadt/Aisch local diversion
		Kraftfahrstraße
		Langenzenn/Wilhermsdorf
		Langenzenn-Burggrafenhof
		Langenzenn-Horbach (entry / exit )
		Seukendorf
		with southwest tangent, 3-way interchange B 8 branches off
		Fürth–Burgfarrnbach local diversion
		Fürth West
		end of motor road
		Fürth
	(38)	Nuremberg/Fürth A 73
		Maximilianstraße
replaced by
		Nürnberg B 2 B 4 B 14
		Münchener Straße
	(45)	Nuremberg-Zollhaus A 73
replaced by A 73
	(48)	Nuremberg/Feucht A 73
		Feucht local diversion
		Schwarzenbruck
		Pfeifferhütte
		Oberferrieden local diversion
		Postbauer-Heng
		local diversion
		Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz local diversion B 299
		Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz
		Deining
		Batzhausen local diversion
		Seubersdorf
		Daßwang
		Hemau local diversion
		Nittendorf
	(97)	Nittendorf A 3
	(39)	Regensburg-Pfaffenstein A 93
		Regensburg B 15 B 16
		Nibelungen Bridge Regensburg
	(103)	Rosenhof A 3
		Pfatter local diversion
		Rain local diversion
		Straubing local diversion
		Aiterhofen local diversion
		Straßkirchen local diversion
	(22)	Plattling-West A 92
		Barred to lorry traffic
		Plattling
		Open to lorry traffic
		Osterhofen local diversion
		Vilshofen an der Donau
		Passau B 85
	(A)	border crossing
		continues towards Linz

See also[]

• Transport in Germany
• List of federal highways in Germany (in English)
• List of federal highways in Germany (in German)

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