Federal motorway 12

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	Bundesautobahn 12 in Germany
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	Basic data
Operator:	Federal Republic of Germany
Start of the street:	Spreenhagen (OT Hartmannsdorf ) ; ( 52 ° 19 ′ N , 13 ° 45 ′ E )
End of street:	Frankfurt (Oder) (OT Güldendorf ) ; ( 52 ° 19 ′ N , 14 ° 35 ′ E )
Overall length:	58 km
State :	Brandenburg;
Development condition:	four-lane
	Federal motorway 12 near Frankfurt (Oder)
	State of Brandenburg
	Under construction; In planning; Traffic control system ;

The Bundesautobahn 12 (abbreviation: BAB 12 ; short form: Autobahn 12 , abbreviation: A 12 ; nickname: Autobahn der Freiheit ) connects Berlin with Frankfurt (Oder) and Poland and is part of Europastraße 30 .

The current numbering system was introduced in the Federal Republic of Germany on January 1, 1975. The designation A 12 was already reserved for the motorway in the GDR .

General

Today's A 12 begins at the Spreeau triangle ( Berliner Ring ) near Königs Wusterhausen and was opened in two sections as route 58 in August and December 1937 to Frankfurt (Oder). The exit was at Reichsstrasse 87 as a temporary solution . The further section to the border with Poland was opened in 1957, but only one-way. This section of the route was only expanded to four lanes in 1992. The A 12 ends on the Oder bridge . The entire length of the motorway runs in the state of Brandenburg .

The continuation of the A 12 on Polish territory is the A2 there , which has been accessible to Poznan , Łódź and Warsaw since June 2012 . Thus the A 12 and the Polish A2 connect the two capitals Berlin and Warsaw and are part of an important road link between Western, Central and Eastern Europe.

In 2000 the bypass road north of Fürstenwalde / Spree was opened and in addition (2001) the new exit Fürstenwalde-Ost was opened. Thus, from 2001 onwards, considerably more transport traffic could take place via Fürstenwalde to Poland or inland Germany. The run-down Berkenbrück-Fürstenwalde exit was relocated to Fürstenwalde-Ost, closed in 2003 and then partially dismantled.

At a measuring point near Fürstenwalde, 33,500 vehicles were counted every day in 2006, 9,300 of which were trucks.

At the Fürstenwalde-West exit is the former Reichsautobahn filling station Fürstenwalde , one of the first regular filling stations on a motorway. The petrol station is also the last one of its kind in Germany and is therefore a listed building.

Freeway Freeway

To commemorate the end of the People's Republic, Poland lacked a symbolic event such as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the associated opening of the border. The poor condition of many Polish roads was a symbol of the socialist shortage economy. Up until 1989 and years after that, there had been virtually no expressways. The motorway to Warsaw also went into operation only a few months before the 2012 European Football Championship. The new highways thus became a symbol of the market economy and the connection with Western Europe. On the initiative of the Polish President Bronisław Komorowski , the Polish Autostrada A2 received the honorary name Freeway of Freedom ( Polish “Autostrada Wolności” ) on June 4, 2014, the 25th anniversary of the parliamentary elections there in 1989 . On October 9, 2014, the 25th anniversary of the Monday demonstrations in Leipzig , Katherina Reiche , CDU member of the Bundestag from Brandenburg and Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, also gave the A 12 the honorary name Autobahn der Freiheit .