Heerstraße

Heerstraße is the German word for military road, a type or road that was built to enable the rapid movement of armies.

Specific roads built for this purpose include the:

Aachen-Frankfurter Heerstraße
Bernauer Heerstraße
Lüneburger Heerstraße
Heerstraße (Berlin)

Heerstraße is also used in:

Berlin Heerstraße station, a railway station in Berlin
Heerstraße (Frankfurt U-Bahn), a metro station on the Frankfurt U-Bahn
British War Cemetery, Heerstraße, on the list of cemeteries in Berlin
in Bremen since 1914 the name of former chaussees (for example, the Schwachhauser Heerstraße)
a road in Frankfurt am Main, once part of the historic Elisabethenstraße

See also

Roman road
Military road

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