high Street

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Hohe Straße (in Austria : Hochstraße ) is a historical generic name that was used to designate old streets in various areas that ran along watersheds, away from settlements and valleys. Because of their leadership over higher altitudes, they could be used all year round, regardless of precipitation and seasons. The high streets known today were mostly recorded and documented at the beginning of the trigonometric mapping and have been known since then:

Inner city streets:

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Hohe Straße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 120