Droga wojewódzka 389

Droga wojewódzka 389 in Poland
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Overall length:	42 km
Voivodeship :	Lower Silesia

The Droga wojewódzka 389 ( DW 389 ) is a street in kłodzko county in the province of Lower Silesia in Poland. It is 42 kilometers long and connects directly the west of the Glatzer country with its southern area. It is also known as Sudetenstrasse or, in Polish, jokingly as Autostrada Sudecka . It is one of the highest asphalt roads in Poland.

history

Ext. 389 at the Brandpass ( Spalona )

With the construction of the Sudetenstrasse , the neighboring villages should be economically promoted and this scenic region of the Adler and Habelschwerdter Mountains should be developed for tourism. Part of the course of the road was opened in 1864 on the road coming from Habelschwerdt from Brand to Langenbrück in the Erlitztal . At that time, this route was the highest road in the Sudetes. The construction of the section from Brand towards Mittelwalde via Lichtenwalde and Seitendorf was started in the mid-1930s and opened to traffic in 1938. Presumably for military purposes, a further expansion took place during the Second World War . After 1945 the street lost its tourist importance and only served to supply the neighboring, largely uninhabited towns. With the transition to Poland after the Second World War, the Polish authorities declared large parts of the street to be a restricted zone because of the proximity to the border with what was then Czechoslovakia . With the increase in winter sports after the political change in 1989, the section from the beginning of the street to Zieliec gained importance. With the support of the European Union , the entire length of the Sudetenstrasse is to be repaired or renewed.

Course of the road

The road branches below the 660 m high Hummel passport (Polish: Przełęcz Polskie Wrota ; Czech: Náchodský průsmyk ) connected between Duszniki-Zdrój and Lewin Kłodzki is, from the European route 67 from which comes from Prague and leads to Wroclaw. It reaches its highest point at 925 meters in Zieliec and leads from there between the Adler and Habelschwerdter mountains through the upper Erlitztal . A side road branches off at Lasówka , which first leads up through the Kressenbach valley and shortly before Polanica-Zdrój crosses road no. 388. Another junction leads down the Kressenbach valley and reaches the town of Bystrzyca Kłodzka from the west via Młoty and Wójtowice .

Ext. 389 in Mostowice

Schronisko Jagodna on the Brandpass

At Mostowice , the Sudetenstrasse leaves the Erlitztal towards the east and after about three kilometers overcomes the 811 m high Brandpass ( Przełęcz Spalona ) and thus the mountain ridge. Shortly after the pass, a side road branches off to the left, which was opened in 1864 and also leads to Bystrzyca Kłodzka via Nowa Bystrzyca and Stara Bystrzyca .

After the Brandpass, the Sudetenstrasse runs eastwards and later southwards below the ridge of the Habelschwerdter Mountains. At Poniatów it crosses a side road that leads via Rudawa and Poręba to Długopole-Zdrój . At Gniewoszów it turns south-east to the valley of the Glatzer Neisse and reaches the north-west of the town of Międzylesie via Różanka , where it ends.

Adjoining localities

The Sudetenstrasse leads through the following villages:

• Kozia Hala ( goat houses )
• Tarniec ( Grunwald )
• Lasówka ( Kaiserswalde )
• Mostowice ( Langenbrück )
• Spalona ( fire )
• Gniewoszów ( Seitendorf )
• Różanka ( Rosenthal ) and ends in
• Międzylesie ( Mittelwalde )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Arno Herzig , Małgorzata Ruchniewicz : History of the Glatzer country . Hamburg-Wrocław 2006. ISBN 3-934632-12-2 , pp. 284 and 320