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State road B38 in Austria
Basic data
Overall length:	174.8 km
State :	Lower Austria Upper Austria
Course of the road Lower Austria Horn district Waldviertel Street Altenburg District Zwettl Pölla Krems-Land district Ottenstein reservoir Notch field District Zwettl Camp Zwettl Zwettl Königswiesener Strasse Great Gerungs Waldviertel narrow-gauge railways Long strike Waldviertel narrow-gauge railways Waldviertel narrow-gauge railways Zwettl District of Gmünd Gmünder Strasse Upper Austria Freistadt district Sandl Maltsch Mühlviertel expressway   Feldaist Prague street Joint routing with Free City Prague street Summerau Railway Urfahr area Big Rodl Bad Leonfelden Vorderweissenbach Rohrbach district Helfenberg Haslach an der Mühl Big mill Mühlkreisbahn Rohrbacher Strasse Joint routing with Rohrbach in Upper Austria Rohrbacher Strasse Oepping Little mill Peilstein in the Mühlviertel Kollerschlag Osterbach Austria - Germany Further on

The Böhmerwald Straße (B 38) is a state road in Austria . It runs for a length of 174.8 km through the Waldviertel and the Mühlviertel . The road begins at the Horn bypass in the north of Lower Austria . From here it first leads past the Allentsteig military training area to Rastenfeld at the Ottenstein reservoir and on to Zwettl . Then the Böhmerwald Straße leads along the southern edge of the Gratzener Bergland to Freistadt . From there the road runs along the eponymous Bohemian Forest parallel to the state border to the Czech Republic , before reaching the state border to Germany at Wegscheid .

history

The origins of this traffic connection can be found in the medieval Polansteig , which connected Horn, Zwettl and Freistadt, but which had a different street course in the area of ​​the Allentsteig military training area, for example .

The road from Zwettl via Döllersheim, Neupölla, Fuglau to Horn-Budweiser Straße next Horn is one of the 17 streets that were declared Lower Austrian state roads in 1866.

The Freiwald Road in Upper Austria was only built in the 1930s. It was an extension of the Freistadt-Sandler Bezirksstraße , which was already assigned to the District Roads in 1866, and led via Rosenhof Castle to the state border at Schönberg.

After the annexation of Austria , Freiwaldstraße was converted into a first-order country road on April 1, 1940 as part of the standardization of the road system and designated as LIO 25. On March 23, 1942, it was declared part of Reichsstraße 388 by a decree of the General Inspector for German Roads .

The Horn-Freistädter Straße between Horn and Freistadt has been part of the network of federal highways in Austria since January 1st, 1950 .

Prestressed concrete bridge over the Ottenstein reservoir

During the construction of the Ottenstein power station, a 700 meter long prestressed concrete bridge had to be built between Friedersbach and Rastenfeld. During the construction of the Purzelkamp Bridge, there was a construction accident on October 24, 1956, in which ten construction workers lost their lives.

The western section between Freistadt and Kollerschlag was originally called Sternwald Straße and has also been part of the network of federal highways in Austria since January 1, 1950.

Since April 1, 1983, the entire route has been referred to as Böhmerwald Straße .

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1. ↑ Law on the declaration of a number of streets as state roads, effective for the Archduchy of Austria under the Enns. LGBl. No. 6/1866. § 1 No. 1
2. ^ Ordinance and official gazette for the Reichsgau Niederdonau , year 1940, p. 179ff, u. Jg. 1942, p 168. Online via Alex available here or here . Retrieved July 3, 2011.
3. ^ ^{A b} Federal Roads Act of February 18, 1948, Directory C.
4. ↑ 50 years ago: the collapse of the reservoir bridge near Lichtenfels on the side of the city of Zwettl, accessed on October 6, 2016
5. ↑ Federal Act of January 20, 1983, which amends the Federal Roads Act 1971, No. 34.

Web links

Commons : Böhmerwald Straße  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

B38	The Böhmerwald Straße, like the other former federal highways, was part of the federal administration. Since April 1, 2002, it has been under state administration and continues to have the B in the number, but not the name Bundesstraße.