Bundesstrasse 242

Bundesstrasse 242 in Germany
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Basic data
Operator:	Federal Republic of Germany
Overall length:	approx. 124 km
State :	Lower Saxony Saxony-Anhalt
Course of the road Seesen Herrhausen Münchehof Beginning of the motor road Münchehof together with Münchehof-Süd End of the highway Bad Grund bypass  Harz region free of municipalities Clausthal-Zellerfeld together with Dam house Sonnenberg together with Braunlage -Nord Beginning of the motor road parking spot Braunlage-Mitte (220 m)  Hasselkopf tunnel End of the highway Braunlage-Süd Concern Harzquerbahn fir Trautenstein Hasselfelde Stairs Selketalbahn Güntersberge Siptenfelde Alexisbad Harzgerode Koenigerode Saurasen Leimbach Mansfeld Castle Klostermansfeld

The federal road 242 (abbreviation: B 242 ) is a German federal road that runs from Seesen to Mansfeld . It leads once completely over the Harz and is therefore also called Harzhochstraße .

History and course

Originally the B 242 did not begin in Seesen, but between Gittelde and Münchehof on the B 243. After this was relocated between Seesen and Gittelde via the junction of the A 7 , the original route via Herrhausen and Münchehof was integrated into the B 242.

The road then continues through the Upper Harz north past Bad Grund and through Clausthal , the Hochharz, where it runs for a few kilometers together with the B 4 , at Braunlage and then runs through the Lower Harz near Harzgerode to the Mansfeld region . There it meets the B 180 after crossing Leimbach together with the B 86 .

Before the construction of the Hettstedt bypass of the B 180, the B 242 led from Leimbach south to Klostermansfeld and then further east past the Zirkelschacht until it met the then B 180 south of Siersleben. The last section from Klostermansfeld was temporarily included in the bypass of the B 180, and from 2018 to 2020 it was replaced by a parallel new building bridging the crossed Mansfeld mine railway.

The direct extension of the B 242 via Polleben and Salzmünde to Halle (Saale) , the L 159, is well developed, but does not have the status of a federal road.

Between Königerode and Leimbach you can find the name Claus-Str on old maps for the course of the road. There it is still called Klausstraße today.

Crossed waters

• Innermost
• Oderteich
• Warm Bode , if you're worried
• Hassel between Hasselfelde and Stiege
• Selke at Alexisbad
• Wipper in Mansfeld

State of development

The development of the B 242 is structured as follows:

section	Stripes	Dividing strip	Crossing freedom	comment
Seesen - AS Münchehof	2	No	No	rural
AS Münchehof - AS Winterberg	4th	Yes	Yes	motorway-like
AS Winterberg - Königskrug	2, tw. 3	no, tw. Yes	No	curvy (mountain road)
Königkrug - AS Braunlage -Mitte	3	Yes	Yes	motorway-like
AS Braunlage-Mitte -	2	No	No	partly curvy

photos

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  Claus-Str. with a view of the Mansfeld pyramids

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  The B 242 together with the B 498 below the Sperberhaier dam

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  B 242 at the highest point (828 m above sea level) between Dammhaus and Sonnenberg

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  View from the Harzhochstrasse to the Brocken

Web links

Commons : Bundesstrasse 242  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Bundesstraße 242 (Klausstraße) , on harzlife.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Around five million euros for the expansion of the B 180 near Hettstedt. In: hallelife.de. September 6, 2018, accessed January 30, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Free travel on the B 180n near Volkstedt. Press release no .: 156/2019. State of Saxony-Anhalt , December 17, 2019, accessed on January 31, 2020 .