- Bundesstraße 1
The Bundesstraße 1 or B1 is a German federal highway running in an east-west direction from the Dutch border near
Aachen to the Polish border atKüstrin-Kietz on theOder River .Route Description
The road's western terminus is with the N278, in the Netherlands.
The road heads eastward through the
Ruhr Area in the province ofNorth Rhine Westphalia . Here it is identical with A 40.Leaving theRuhr Area east ofDortmund the B1 travels the more scenic route that shadows the A 2. Here it follows the old trading routeHellweg , crossing cities likeUnna ,Werl ,Soest ,Paderborn ,Hameln ,Hildesheim andBraunschweig . The B1 continues inMagdeburg ,Potsdam andBerlin . The road reaches Berlin's city limits atGlienicke Bridge and heads towards the inner city atAlexanderplatz . It leaves Berlin to the eastern side, joined by theBundesstraße 5 for around 20km before reaching the Polish border.The road's eastern terminus is with Polish national road DK22 which crosses the country in an easterly direction.
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