Alpine road
The Alpenstrasse is an arterial road in the south of the Austrian city of Salzburg and is today - together with Moosstrasse further west in the city - the longest inner-city road in the state capital. As part of the B 150 Salzburger Straße it connects the districts Nonntal and Josefiau and leads outside the urban area to Anif , and as part of the B 160 Berchtesgadener Straße to Grödig , where it continues in the street to the Bavarian Berchtesgaden .
The street was built in 1936/37 and was originally called Kärntner Reichsstraße . In 1939 it was renamed the German Alpine Road . It got its name because the Alpine Road, in its scenic location , was supposed to form the eastern end of the German Alpine Road parallel to the historical landscape of Hellbrunner Allee and the landscaped garden of Hellbrunn . Today this ends with the Roßfeldhöhenringstraße east of Berchtesgaden.
The Alpine Road in Salzburg was originally laid out as a long-distance traffic route in keeping with the landscape, which was intended to relieve local traffic. Today it serves as an arterial road and is one of the busiest streets in the city.
The Alpine Road lies along the new southern district of Salzburg-Süd and its parts Josefiau , Herrnau and in the south the Alpine settlement . This alpine settlement was built in its beginnings on the site of the barrack village built as a provisional military camp during the Second World War and used as a large internment camp after 1945 - Camp Marcus W. Orr , named after its first American camp commandant. Due to the stationing of the guards and / or occupation team in the Glasenbacher Rainer barracks, the general public wrongly called the camp “Lager Glasenbach”.
Today the Alpine Road is shaped by residential buildings, but above all by many commercial buildings and wholesale markets. The Shopping Center Alpenstrasse (SCA) was built in the Alpine settlement area after 1990 . This extends on both sides of the street, both parts of which are connected by an underground tunnel equipped with shops and restaurants. In recent decades, businesses important to the city have settled along the entire street. The main buildings of Bausparkasse Wüstenrot AG and Wüstenrot Versicherungs-AG, which are part of the Wüstenrot Group , are particularly architecturally interesting .
The trolleybuses of the city bus lines 3 and 8, the buses of the Albus line 28 and regional buses run on the Alpine Road .