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 at Küstrin-Kietz on the Oder 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 of North Rhine Westphalia. Here it is identical with A 40.Leaving the Ruhr Area east of Dortmund the B1 travels the more scenic route that shadows the A 2. Here it follows the old trading route Hellweg, crossing cities like Unna, Werl, Soest, Paderborn, Hameln, Hildesheim and Braunschweig. The B1 continues in Magdeburg, Potsdam and Berlin. The road reaches Berlin's city limits at Glienicke Bridge and heads towards the inner city at Alexanderplatz. It leaves Berlin to the eastern side, joined by the Bundesstraße 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.