Hochkönig Street

State road B164 in Austria
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Basic data
Start of the street:	Bischofshofen ( 47 ° 24 ′  N , 13 ° 13 ′  E )
End of street:	St. Johann in Tirol ( 47 ° 32 ′  N , 12 ° 26 ′  E )
Overall length:	75 km
State :	Salzburg Tyrol
Course of the road Salzburg Sankt Johann im Pongau district Pinzgauer Strasse 311 Salzach Salzburg-Tyrolean Railway Salzachtal Street 159 Mühlbach am Hochkönig Zell am See district Dientner Saddle ( 1342  m above sea level ) Served on the Hochkönig Filzensattel ( 1290  m above sea level ) Urslau Maria Alm Urslau Urslau Saalfelden at the Stone Sea Pinzgauer Strasse 311 Urslau Saalach Salzburg-Tyrolean Railway Leogang Leoganger Ache Grießenpass ( 975  m above sea level ) Tyrol Kitzbühel district Blocked for through truck traffic over 7.5 t from km 56.251 to km 75.76 (56.3)  Entrance to  Hochfilzen (57.8)  End of the village Hochfilzen (62.7)  Fieberbrunner Ache (62.8)  Entrance to  Fieberbrunn (64.7)  Fieberbrunner Ache (65.3)  Pillerseestrasse (66.7)  End of Fieberbrunn (68.8)  Fieberbrunner Ache (72.9)  Start of the village  St. Johann in Tirol (73.9)  Salzburg-Tyrolean Railway (74.8)  Fieberbrunner Ache (75,620)  Loferer Strasse 178  Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap map

The Hochkönig Straße  ( B 164 ) - Hochkönigstraße in Tyrol - is a state road in Austria .

course

The Hochkönigstraße is 75 km long, the first section being a relatively insignificant mountain road, the second being the most important inner-Austrian west-east connection:

• Beginning in Bischofshofen in the Salzach valley , it first leads between Hochkönig and Dientener Bergen along to the Dientner Sattel ( 1342  m above sea level ) and further down into the Saalach valley to Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer .
• Beyond the Saalach, the road leads in the Leogang Valley between Leoganger Steinbergen and Loferer Steinbergen in the north and the Kitzbühel Alps in the south via Leogang up to the Grießenpass ( 975  m above sea level ), and via Fieberbrunn back down into the Leukental to St. Johann in Tirol .

On the last section the road runs parallel to the Salzburg-Tiroler-Bahn .

The Hochkönig Straße is very popular with motorcyclists in summer. The winding route from Bischofshofen to Mühlbach and the two pass heights of Dientner Sattel and Filzensattel are particularly important here.

history

Since 1948, three sections of today's Hochkönig Strasse in the state of Salzburg have been classified as 2nd order state roads:

• The 9.6 km long Mühlbacher Straße between Bischofshofen and Mühlbach
• The 5.7 km long Almer Straße between Alm and Saalfelden
• The 7.1 km long Leoganger Straße between Saalfelden and Leogang

With effect from July 1, 1962, the last two streets mentioned were extended:

• The Almer road was by 8.2 km to Hinterthal extended.
• The Leoganger Straße was extended by 11.0 km to the Tyrolean border at the Grießenpass.

The middle section of the route between Mühlbach and Hinterthal was declared a rival road by the state law of April 11, 1962 . In Austrian legal language, competition refers to the joint financing of a project by various institutions, each of which assumes a percentage of the maintenance costs specified by law. In this case it took over

• the province of Salzburg 65.00%
• the municipality of Alm 8.00%
• the community of Bischofshofen 2.25%
• the community of Dienten am Hochkönig 8.00%
• the community of Mühlbach am Hochkönig 8.00%
• the municipality of Saalfelden 3.75%
• the Austrian Federal Forests 5.00%

On the Tyrolean side, Fieberbrunner Strasse from Sankt Johann to the state border was declared State Road I Order by the Tyrolean Road Act of September 28, 1950 and designated as L 1 .

The Hochkönig Straße has been part of the network of federal highways in Austria since January 1st, 1973 .

Traffic restrictions

The following restriction applies to Hochkönigstrasse: B 164 Hochkönigstrasse from km 56.251 (municipality of Hochfilzen) to km 75.76 (St. Johann in Tirol) in both directions for trucks over 7.5 t maximum permissible weight, with the exception of towing service, breakdown assistance, armed forces and trucks, which are loaded or unloaded in the following municipalities, or have their source or destination in the named municipalities: St. Johann in Tirol and Fieberbrunn in Tirol, Hochfilzen and Leogang in the state of Salzburg.

gallery

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  Hochkönig with Dientner Tal, in which the Hochkönig road runs

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  Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer, viewed from the northeast

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  Dienner saddle

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  Pass Grießen

Web links

Commons : Hochkönigstraße  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Decision of the Tyrolean Parliament of May 15, 2002, published in the State Law Gazette No. 68/2002 ( Memento of the original of January 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 65 kB) 
2. ↑ Video: Dienter Saddle - Bischofshofen
3. ^ Directory of state roads, 2nd order, LGBl. No. 42/1948.
4. ↑ Law of May 16, 1962, with which individual roads are taken over as state roads and parts of some state roads are abandoned as such, LGBl. No. 129/1962.
5. ↑ Law of April 11, 1962, which declares the street running from Mühlbach am Hochkönig via Dienten am Hochkönig to Hinterthal, Alm community, as a rival street. LGBl. No. 118/1962.
6. ^ Tyrolean Road Act. LGBl. No. 1/1950.
7. ↑ Announcement of the Federal Minister for Buildings and Technology of February 8, 1977 in accordance with Section 33, Paragraph 4 of the Federal Roads Act 1971 with regard to the State of Salzburg , Federal Law Gazette No. 112/1977.

B164	Like the other former federal highways, Hochkönig Strasse 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.