Very good, Clipper. "Just east of Frankfurt" would be a good description for a US citizen, it is about 75km distance.
"Route 46" was built in a length of about 30km and most bridges are completed. Also the marked-out route had been nearly finished, some say, they were shortly before beginning to bring on the tarmac on the road. The idea for the "Autobahn" was born after WW one, several private companies began to plan various long distance routes through Germany. The government did not want to spend the money for such projects and nothing happened until the Nazis tooked this idea and promoted it as project for mobility, tourism and employment. They wanted to built 7.000km between 1934 and 1942. As we all know, the war stopped most of these works and until 1945 the Nazis completed about 3.900 km of "Autobahn". 3.700 km of them were built until 1940! About 2.900 km remained unfinished. While most of these routes were completed sooner or later after WW two, the "Strecke 46" remained unfinished, the new A7 was planned and built about 20km east, because of the new German-German border and the difficult routing of the 46: steep hills and narrow curves could not handle the modern traffic. The route should reach particularly beautiful places and so it is good today, that the nature was preserved.
You can do a flight on Google Earth and you can easily recognize the route in todays landscape:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51VdmmMPgzU
Site with more information in English:
http://www.strecke46.de/sprachen/english.html
Some more pictures:
http://www.thematrixer.com/urbanexpedition11.php
And a video, in German, but impressing and in good quality, "our place" is just at the end:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBrtnen3fxU
We have here, very exotic in Germany, more than 8km official gravel road.
IMG_0782 by Ralf Plinta, auf Flickr
Now i have to clean my car.
IMG_0781 by Ralf Plinta, auf Flickr
I hope, you had fun while discovering this place. Over to you again, Clipper!
"Route 46" was built in a length of about 30km and most bridges are completed. Also the marked-out route had been nearly finished, some say, they were shortly before beginning to bring on the tarmac on the road. The idea for the "Autobahn" was born after WW one, several private companies began to plan various long distance routes through Germany. The government did not want to spend the money for such projects and nothing happened until the Nazis tooked this idea and promoted it as project for mobility, tourism and employment. They wanted to built 7.000km between 1934 and 1942. As we all know, the war stopped most of these works and until 1945 the Nazis completed about 3.900 km of "Autobahn". 3.700 km of them were built until 1940! About 2.900 km remained unfinished. While most of these routes were completed sooner or later after WW two, the "Strecke 46" remained unfinished, the new A7 was planned and built about 20km east, because of the new German-German border and the difficult routing of the 46: steep hills and narrow curves could not handle the modern traffic. The route should reach particularly beautiful places and so it is good today, that the nature was preserved.
You can do a flight on Google Earth and you can easily recognize the route in todays landscape:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51VdmmMPgzU
Site with more information in English:
http://www.strecke46.de/sprachen/english.html
Some more pictures:
http://www.thematrixer.com/urbanexpedition11.php
And a video, in German, but impressing and in good quality, "our place" is just at the end:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBrtnen3fxU
We have here, very exotic in Germany, more than 8km official gravel road.

Now i have to clean my car.

I hope, you had fun while discovering this place. Over to you again, Clipper!
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