Bundesautobahn 8

A8
Bundesautobahn 8
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Route information
Length:	497 km (309 mi)
Major junctions
From:	Luxembourg A13 motorway
	Route A13 Luxembourg (1) Perl border crossing (2) Perl-Besch B 419 Talbrücke 300 m (3) Perl-Borg B 407 Tunnel Pellinger Berg 596 m (4) Merzig-Wellingen Kohlenbrucher-Bach-Brücke 300 m Talbrücke 200 m File:Parkplatz mit WC (Zeichen).png Rest area Weiler (5) Merzig-Schwemlingen (6) Merzig (7) Rehlingen (8) Dillingen-Mitte (9) Saarlouis 3-way interchange A 620 (10) Dillingen-Süd (11) Saarlouis-Steinrausch (12) Nalbach B 269 (13) Saarwellingen B 405 (14) Schwalbach (15) Schwalbach / Schwarzenholz (16) Heusweiler B 268 (17) Saarbrücken 4-way interchange (18) Merchweiler (19) Friedrichsthal-Bildstock (20) Friedrichsthal 3-way interchange A 623 Sulzbachtalviadukt 800 m (21) Elversberg (22) Neunkirchen-Heinitz (23) Neunkirchen / Spiesen B 41 Talbrücke 400 m (24) Neunkirchen-Oberstadt (25) Neunkirchen-Wellesweiler (26) Neunkirchen-Kohlhof (27) Neunkirchen 4-way interchange (28) Limbach (Neckar-Odenwald) (30) Einöd B 423 Schwarzbachbrücke 100 m (31) Zweibrücken-Ernstweiler (32) Zweibrücken (33) Zweibrücken-Ixheim B 424 (34) Contwig (35) Walshausen Talbrücke 300 m Talbrücke 250 m (36) Pirmasens 3-way interchange A 62 (41) Dreieck Karlsruhe 3-way interchange (42) Karlsbad (43) Pforzheim-West (44) Pforzheim-Nord (45a) Pforzheim-Ost (45b) Pforzheim-Süd (46) Heimsheim (47) Rutesheim (48) Leonberg-West (49) Dreieck Leonberg 3-way interchange (50) Leonberg-Ost Friedensbrücke 338 m Services Sindelfinger Wald Ri. Osten (51) Stuttgart 4-way interchange , A 831 (52a) Stuttgart-Möhringen (52b) Stuttgart-Degerloch (53a) Stuttgart-Flughafen-Messe (53b) Stuttgart-Plieningen (54) Esslingen Services Denkendorf Ri. Westen Sulzbachviadukt 370 m (55) Wendlingen B 313 Neckarbrücke 144 m (56) Kirchheim (Teck)-West (57) Kirchheim (Teck)-Ost B 465 (58) Aichelberg Maustobelviadukt 500 m Franzosenschluchtviadukt 300 m Services Gruibingen (59) Mühlhausen B 466 Filstalbrücke 800 m Tunnel Himmelschleife 1170 m Gosbachtalbrücke 460 m Tunnel Drarckenstein 1670 m (59a) Road toll (60) Hohenstadt (61) Merklingen Services Aichen (62) Ulm-West (63) Ulm-Ost (64) Oberelchingen (65) Ulm / Elchingen 4-way interchange Donaubrücke 375 m (66) Leipheim Services Leipheim Ri. Osten (67) Günzburg (68) Unterknöringen (geplant) Services Burgauer See Ri. Westen (69) Burgau Services Burgauer See (70) Zusmarshausen Raststätte Lüftenberg Ri. Osten (71a) Adelsried Services / Motel Edenbergen (71b) Neusäß (72) Augsburg-West ,B 17 Lechbrücke 93 m Services Augsburg (73) Augsburg-Ost (73a) Friedberg (74) Dasing B 300 (75) Adelzhausen (76) Odelzhausen (77) Sulzemoos (78) Dachau / Fürstenfeldbruck (79) München-Eschenried (Eschenrieder Spange) 3-way interchange (80) München-Langwied (81) München-West 4-way interchange (82) München-Obermenzing (91) München-Ramersdorf B 2R (92a) München-Perlach (92b) Neubiberg Tunnel GTunnel Neubiberg 327 m (93) Unterhaching-Ost (94) Taufkirchen-Ost (95) München-Süd 4-way interchange , Raststätte Hofoldinger Forst Ri. Osten (96) Hofoldinger Forst Services Holzkirchen Ri. Osten (97) Holzkirchen B 318 Services Holzkirchen Ri. Westen Mangfalltalbrücke 310 m (98) Weyarn (99) Irschenberg B 472 Services Irschenberg Ri. Osten (100) Bad Aibling (??) Kolbermoor (geplant) B 15n (??) Rosenheim-West (geplant) (101) Dreieck Inntal 3-way interchange (102) Rosenheim Innbrücke (103) Rohrdorf Services Samerberg (104) Achenmühle (105) Frasdorf (106) Bernau am Chiemsee B 305 Raststätte Chiemsee Ri. Westen (107) Felden (108) Übersee Services Hochfelln (109) Grabenstätt (110) Bergen (111) Schweinbach (112) Traunstein / Siegsdorf B 306 (113) Neukirchen Loithalbrücke (114) Anger (115) Bad Reichenhall / Piding Saalachbrücke (116) Piding/Walserberg border crossing A 1 Austria
To:	Austrian West Autobahn near Salzburg
Location
States:	Saarland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria
Highway system
Roads in Germany Motorways (Autobahnen) Federal Highways (Bundesstraßen) E-roads ← A 7 A 9 →

Bundesautobahn 8 (translates from German as Federal Motorway 8, short form Autobahn 8, abbreviated as BAB 8 or A 8) is an autobahn in southern Germany that runs 497 km (309 mi) from the Luxembourg A13 motorway at Schengen via Neunkirchen, Pirmasens, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Ulm, Augsburg and Munich to the Austrian West Autobahn near Salzburg.

File:A 8 AD Inntal, 2014 (01).JPG

BAB 93 junction near Rosenheim

The A 8 is a significant East-West transit route. Its construction began in March 1934 during Nazi rule as a Reichsautobahn, the section between Karlsruhe and Salzburg having been completed by the time road works were discontinued in World War II. Although parts have been modernized and extended since, significant sections remain in their original configuration from the 1930s - 2+2 lanes, no emergency or acceleration lanes, steep hills and tight curves. In combination with today's traffic this makes the A 8 one of the most crowded and dangerous autobahns in Germany. Especially in the wintertime the slopes of the Black Forest, the Swabian Alb near Aichelberg, as well as the Irschenberg become bottlenecks when heavy trucks crawl uphill.

Incomplete

As of 2014, the section between Pirmasens and Karlsruhe has not yet been built and is not yet under construction.

External links

• Geographic data related to Bundesautobahn 8 at OpenStreetMap
• Bundesautobahn 8 – Detailed route plan (German)