Bundesstraße 6n

Federal highway in Germany

B 6n

Bundesstraße 6n

The B6n near Abbenrode

Route information

Length

94 km (58 mi)

Major junctions

West end

A 395

Major intersections

v t e B 6n Route Map
Motor road		Kraftfahrstraße
	(1)	Vienenburg 3-way interchange A 395 B 6
		Ecker valley bridge 190 m
	(2)	Abbenrode
		Rest area Brockenblick
	(3)	Stapelburg
		Ilse bridge 60 m
	(4)	Ilsenburg
	(5)	Wernigerode-Nord B 244
	(6)	Wernigerode-Zentrum
		Rest area Regensteinblick
	(7)	Halberstadt Heimburg B 81
		Birke valley bridge 143m
	(8)	Blankenburg-Zentrum B 81
	(9)	Blankenburg-Ost B 27
	(10)	Thale L240
		Green bridge
	(11)	Halberstadt Quedlinburg-Zentrum B 79
		Mühlgraben bridge
		Bode bridge
	(12)	Quedlinburg-Ost L66
		Selke bridge
		Green bridge
	(13)	Hoym L75
	(14)	Aschersleben-West B 6 / B 185
	(15)	Aschersleben-Zentrum B 180
		Rest area Hasenwinkel
	(16)	Aschersleben-Ost
	(17)	Güsten L72
	(18)	Ilberstedt
	((19))	Bernburg interchange A 14
	(20)	Bernburg-West
	(21)	Bernburg-Nord (planned) B 71
	(22)	Nienburg (planned) L65
		Saale bridge (planned)
	(23)	Bernburg-Ost (planned) 2012
	24	Kleinpaschleben
		Großpaschleben (planned)
		Köthen (planned) B 1852013
		Meilendorf (planned)
		Salzfurtkapelle (planned)
		Intersection Wolfen (planned) A 9

East end

Bernburg (Saale)

Location

Country

Germany

States

Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt

Highway system

Roads in Germany

The Bundesstraße 6n is a German federal road that runs east-west from the Vienenburg district of Goslar to Bernburg, where it connects to the A14. It was originally planned to be the A 36 motorway. It is intended to have four lanes running from the A 395 near Vienenburg through Wernigerode, Blankenburg, Quedlinburg, Aschersleben over the A 14 to Bernburg (Saale).

The designation B 6n has been given to distinguish it from the old B 6 and B 185 during the planning and construction phase. After it is opened to traffic and the old Bundesstraße is downgraded to a Landesstraße or Kreisstraßen the B 6n will be renumbered the B 6 from Goslar to Aschersleben, the remaining section to the A 14 will become the B 185. For the most part the signs have already been changed accordingly.

Route

The B 6n is signed off the A 14 (Magdeburg–Halle/Leipzig) motorway at Bernburg motorway junction and, after Braunschweig (Brunswick), it joins the A 395 at the Vienenburg three-way interchange (Autobahndreieck). It is thus intended to link these two motorways and create a new east–west axis. It is also intended to relieve traffic on the A 2 by providing an alternative route. The B 6 is being downgraded; indeed it already has been in those sections where the B 6n has already been built and is no longer signed as a Bundesstraße or federal road.

From Vienenburg the B 6 continues as a 4-lane dual carriageway or Schnellstraße to Goslar and from there as the B 82, albeit no longer a Schnellstraße, to the A 7 motorway near Rhüden. During ultrasound testing on the route of the B 6n numerous sites of archaeological significance were found, including a burial hut (Totenhütte ) of the Bernburg culture near Benzingerode in the borough of Wernigerode.

The section between the three-way intersection at Vienenburg and Bernburg is already finished. This has relieved through traffic in the towns and villages by providing a motorway-like Schnellstraße or so-called "yellow motorway" (gelbe Autobahn).

The extension of the B 6n is in planning and will consist of a ring road around Bernburg. In addition, there are preliminary investigations into an extension of the B 6 as far as the A 9 motorway. The route is intended to pass south of Köthen. The regional planning procedure for this was completed in 2001. The link to the A9 will be built near Thurland (about 5 kilometres south of the Dessau-Süd junction). There were thoughts about a further extension to Cottbus, but these have been put aside, because it was assessed that this route would not be used by a lot of traffic.

At present the B 6n is open from the west i.e. Goslar as far as the Bernburg junction.

Since 11 July 2007, planning and building law applies to all 13 sections (as far as the A 14).^[1]

However, complaints were made to the Federal Administrative Court against the planning decision for section 13.3 (between Ilberstedt and the A 14). This legal dispute ended on 5 November 2008 with a court-proposed settlement agreement.^[2]

According to the court decision, all applications for the B 6n gained governmental approval, which meant that the B 6n could be completed in the direction of the A 14 and lengthened as far as Bernburg. This last section was opened to traffic on 11 December 2011.

Administrative regions

The B 6n passes through the following administrative regions:

Lower Saxony
- Goslar district
  - Vienenburg
Saxony-Anhalt
- Harz district
  - Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Nordharz: Abbenrode, Stapelburg
  - Ilsenburg
  - Wernigerode
  - Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Blankenburg: Heimburg, Blankenburg
  - Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Thale: Thale, Westerhausen
  - Quedlinburg
- Salzlandkreis
  - Seeland
  - Aschersleben
  - Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Saale-Wipper: Güsten, Ilberstedt
  - Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Bernburg: Bernburg (Saale)

References

^ ddp Basisdienst: Baugenehmigung für neue Abschnitte der Bundesstraße 6n erteilt, 11 July 2007
^ Bundesverwaltungsgericht: Pressemitteilung 76/2008: Weiterer Lärmschutz beim Bau der B 6n bei Güsten/Ilberstedt, 5 November 2008

External links

B6n-online

Bundesstraßen (federal highways) in Germany

Main road network

1–99	B 1 B 2 B 2 R B 3 B 4 B 4 R B 5 B 6 B 7 B 8 B 9 B 10 B 11 B 12 B 13 B 14 B 15 B 16 B 17 B 19 B 20 B 21 B 22 B 23 B 25 B 26 B 27 B 28 B 29 B 30 B 31 B 32 B 33 B 34 B 35 B 36 B 37 B 38 B 39 B 40 B 41 B 42 B 43 B 44 B 45 B 47 B 48 B 49 B 50 B 51 B 52 B 53 B 54 B 55 B 56 B 57 B 58 B 59 B 61 B 62 B 63 B 64 B 65 B 66 B 67 B 68 B 69 B 70 B 71 B 72 B 73 B 74 B 75 B 76 B 77 B 79 B 80 B 81 B 82 B 83 B 84 B 85 B 86 B 87 B 88 B 89 B 90 B 91 B 92 B 93 B 94 B 95 B 96 B 97 B 98 B 99
100–199	B 100 B 101 B 102 B 103 B 104 B 105 B 106 B 107 B 108 B 109 B 110 B 111 B 112 B 113 B 115 B 122 B 156 B 158 B 166 B 167 B 168 B 169 B 170 B 171 B 172 B 173 B 174 B 175 B 176 B 178 B 179 B 180 B 181 B 182 B 183 B 184 B 185 B 186 B 187 B 188 B 189 B 190 B 191 B 192 B 193 B 194 B 195 B 196 B 197 B 198 B 199
200–299	B 200 B 201 B 202 B 203 B 205 B 206 B 207 B 208 B 209 B 210 B 211 B 212 B 213 B 214 B 215 B 216 B 217 B 218 B 219 B 220 B 221 B 223 B 224 B 225 B 226 B 227 B 228 B 229 B 230 B 231 B 233 B 234 B 235 B 236 B 237 B 238 B 239 B 240 B 241 B 242 B 243 B 244 B 245 B 246 B 247 B 248 B 249 B 250 B 251 B 252 B 253 B 254 B 255 B 256 B 257 B 258 B 259 B 260 B 261 B 262 B 263 B 264 B 265 B 266 B 267 B 268 B 269 B 270 B 271 B 272 B 273 B 274 B 275 B 276 B 277 B 278 B 279 B 281 B 282 B 283 B 284 B 285 B 286 B 287 B 288 B 289 B 290 B 291 B 292 B 293 B 294 B 295 B 296 B 297 B 298 B 299
300–399	B 300 B 301 B 303 B 304 B 305 B 306 B 307 B 308 B 310 B 311 B 312 B 313 B 314 B 315 B 316 B 317 B 318 B 319 B 320 B 321 B 322 B 323 B 324 B 326 B 327 B 378 B 388 B 392 B 399
400–499	B 400 B 401 B 402 B 403 B 404 B 405 B 406 B 407 B 408 B 410 B 411 B 412 B 413 B 414 B 415 B 416 B 417 B 418 B 419 B 420 B 421 B 422 B 423 B 424 B 426 B 427 B 428 B 429 B 430 B 431 B 432 B 433 B 436 B 437 B 438 B 439 B 440 B 441 B 442 B 443 B 444 B 445 B 446 B 447 B 448 B 449 B 450 B 451 B 452 B 453 B 454 B 455 B 456 B 457 B 458 B 459 B 460 B 461 B 462 B 463 B 464 B 465 B 466 B 467 B 468 B 469 B 470 B 471 B 472 B 473 B 474 B 475 B 476 B 477 B 478 B 480 B 481 B 482 B 483 B 484 B 485 B 486 B 487 B 489 B 491 B 492 B 493 B 494 B 495 B 496 B 497 B 498 B 499
500–	B 500 B 501 B 502 B 503 B 504 B 505 B 506 B 507 B 508 B 509 B 510 B 511 B 512 B 513 B 514 B 515 B 516 B 517 B 518 B 519 B 521 B 522 B 523 B 525 B 528 B 532 B 533 B 535 B 588

Extension sections

B 1a
B 3n
B 11a
B 12n
B 13n
B 15n
B 16a
B 26a
B 27a
B 28a
B 31a
B 33a
B 38a
B 39a
B 40a
B 43a
B 47a
B 47n
B 54n
B 55a
B 56n
B 62n
B 66n
B 96a
B 96b
B 158a
B 172a
B 178n
B 183a
B 187a
B 243a
B 245a
B 246a
B 248a
B 299a
B 410n
B 466a
B 480n

Planned roads

B 2a
B 4f
B 26n
B 64n
B 71n
B 87n
B 117
B 131n
B 172b
B 189n
B 190n
B 212n
B 474n
B 475n
B 611

Former roads

Reclassified	B 6n B 7a B 14n B 16n B 18 B 18a B 24 B 46 B 60 B 61n B 67n B 72a B 74n B 96n B 112n B 196a B 204 B 210a B 222 B 227n B 232 B 277a B 280 B 281a B 302 B 309 B 340 B 409 B 425 B 434 B 435 B 479 B 488 B 490 B 520 B 524 B 530 B 999 B E B R B S B Z
Cancelled	B 156a B 160