Hauptstrasse 10
Hauptstrasse 10 in Switzerland | |
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Basic data | |
Operator: | ASTRA |
Start of the street: |
Les Verrières ( 46 ° 54 ′ N , 6 ° 27 ′ E ) |
End of the road: |
Lucerne ( 47 ° 4 ′ N , 8 ° 17 ′ E ) |
Overall length: | approx. 180 km |
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Development condition: | double lane, not separated carriageway |
Course of the road
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The main road 10 is a main road in the Swiss cantons of Bern , Lucerne , Neuchâtel and Friborg . The main road begins in Les Verrières on the French border near Pontarlier , where it continues as D67bis , and ends in Lucerne at Hauptstrasse 2 . From Ferenbalm to the confluence of Hauptstrasse 12 in Bern , the Hauptstrasse divides the street with Hauptstrasse 1 , then also with Hauptstrasse 12 to Neubrückstrasse in Bern. Shortly afterwards, Hauptstrasse 6 joins the street. Now it splits the street with the main street 16 up to the A6 near Muri bei Bern . Between Wolhusen and Schachen , Werthenstein the main street divides the street with main street 2a . Larger places on the main street are Lucerne, Bern and Neuchâtel. A short section between Neuchâtel and Ins is four-lane, otherwise the route is mostly two-lane and not directionally separated.
history
Neuchâtel
In the 18th century, the Principality of Neuchâtel owned five so-called "routes seignieurales" to connect the residential city of Neuchâtel with the capitals of neighboring states. Two of these five aristocratic streets are on today's main street 10:
- the France road (route de France) via Pontarlier and
- the Berner Kantonsstrasse from Neuchâtel via Saint-Blaise and Thielle to the Bern canton border.
This street served primarily as a thoroughfare between the capitals Paris and Bern.
Bern / Lucerne
Since the 15th century, the land route via Langnau through Entlebuch has become the preferred connection between Bern and Lucerne. For centuries, a rock face between Langnau and Werthenstein made it difficult to drive on this land route. In 1796 the travel writer Johann Georg Heinzmann recommended to his readers that if they chose the route from Bern to Lucerne via Langnau, they would have to "rather take a farmer to accompany them through the Entli book so as not to go astray". It was not until the 1830s that this road was expanded into a paved artificial road ( Chaussee ).