Bundesstrasse 89
Map with all coordinates: The federal highway 89 (abbreviation: B 89 ) is a German federal highway in Thuringia and to a small extent in Bavaria . In the south of the country it connects the federal highway 71 near Meiningen in the west with the federal highway 85 near Kronach in the east, the last kilometers of the road being in Bavaria. The B 89 is 80 kilometers long and, after the completion of the A 71 and A 73 motorways, only serves mainly local traffic with the connection to the districts of Hildburghausen and Sonneberg . The only major expansion project was the Sonneberg bypass , which was put into operation in 2010, and smaller construction work was carried out or is in the planning stage. In 2008 the western beginning was moved from Meiningen to the A-71 junction Meiningen-Süd.
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Meiningen - ice field
The B 89 begins a few kilometers southeast of Meiningen at the federal motorway 71 , junction Meiningen-Süd and runs in an easterly direction through the Werra valley via Themar and numerous villages to Hildburghausen . Its town through is regulated on one-way streets: While traffic in an easterly direction leads south around the old town, traffic to the west uses the northern ring of the old town. This unsatisfactory urban planning situation is to be eliminated by building a bypass, which is provided for in the further requirements of the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030 . It should begin on Coburger Straße and initially run parallel to the Werra Railway to Birkenfeld and then across the Werra and north around Heßberg . The adjoining area around Harras is also to be re-routed, parallel to the Werra Railway from Veilsdorf Monastery to the level crossing behind Harras. Then Eisfeld is reached, where there is a connection to the federal motorway 73 .
Ice field - Stockheim
In Eisfeld, the B 89 leaves the Werra valley and leads over the Weser - Rhine -Wasserscheide down to Bachfeld . The road then leads along the southern edge of the Thuringian Slate Mountains to Sonneberg , which was given a southern bypass in 2010. Previously there was a one-way street through town here - as in Hildburghausen. In the southern curve of the bypass, the new federal road 4 was connected to Coburg , which replaced the old state road leading through Neustadt bei Coburg and quickly connected Sonneberg with the A73. The bypass ends in a roundabout on the old route of the B 89. The long-term goal for this area is also to improve the road connection to the north in the direction of Neuhaus am Rennweg and Saalfeld . The last section leads through the Föritzgrund and Neuhaus-Schierschnitz to Bavaria, where the village of Burggrub has already received a bypass. Then the B 89 ends in the Haßlachtal at the federal road 85 (Saalfeld – Kronach ) in the Haßlach district of Stockheim .
