Millstätter Strasse

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	State road B98 in Austria
	Basic data
Overall length:	43.3 km
State :	Carinthia
	Course at Döbriach
	Spittal an der Drau district
	Villach-Land district

B 98 in Millstatt am See

The Millstätter Straße ( B 98 ) is a country road in Carinthia , Austria , and runs from Seebach, in the municipality of Seeboden until after meeting near the Lake Ossiach .

course

Millstätter Straße begins near Seebach at the bridge over the Lieser , where it branches off from Katschberg Straße B 99. After 400 meters there is a connection to the feeder to the Tauern Autobahn A 10. This is followed by the Seeboden drive through , where there is a roundabout with the junction of the state road 11 to Treffling , Gmünd across the square or Tangern / Laubendorf. The B 98 leads to the through-town of Millstatt near the Millstätter See , from where a state road branches off to Obermillstatt or to the Millstätter Berg . Past Heroldeck Castle, the B 98 leads again directly on the lake shore via Pesenthein to Dellach am Millstätter See. Here the L 17 branches off, which leads to the towns of Sappl and Matzelsdorf and over the entire Millstätter Berg back to Treffling.

After Dellach the road is a little higher above the lake. Past the viewpoint Hohe Wand / Jungfernsprung, where a remnant of the medieval road has been preserved, it goes to Döbriach , where a road branches off over the Glanz ( Mirnock ) to Ferndorf or Paternion / Feistritz im Drautal .

Passing the Erdmannsiedlung and the magnesite works in Radenthein , the street reaches a roundabout after crossing the town, from which the street Kleinkirchheimer Straße (B 88) branches off. The Millstätter Straße continues through the Umgebung Valley , where it runs through the municipality of Feld am See , along the Brennsee , the Afritzer See and through the municipality of Afritz am See . Then the L 46 and L 45a branch off from the B 98 in the end section.

The 43.3 km long Millstätter Straße ends near Niederndorf (municipality of Treffen am Ossiacher See ), where it meets the Ossiacher Straße B 94.

history

Millstätter Strasse was created in the 1880s as part of the development of a tourist infrastructure on Lake Millstatt . In Liesertal, construction work on the Reichsstraße Spittal - Gmünd - Katschberg , now part of Katschberg Straße (B 99), began in 1878 and was completed two years later. From there, only a simple road continued to branch off to Millstatt. It was not until August 4, 1883 that the decision was made to build a connecting road with a bridge over the Lieser. In 1887 both the road and the Lieserbrücke were completed and after the main road through Millstatt had also been built, the road was inaugurated on December 2nd, 1888. She received the Emperor on the occasion of the 40th jubilee Franz Josef I called Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Straße .

Due to the increase in tourist traffic - when the expansion work began in 1883, a post bus line ran between Spittal and Millstatt during the summer season - the demand for a widening of the road arose from the turn of the century. The "reconstruction" of the state road began on October 1, 1913, and the work was completed during the First World War. In 1922 the first bus line Spittal - Millstatt was set up. A renewed expansion was necessary after the Second World War due to an enormous increase in automobile traffic, in particular the through-traffic was widened by 1961. An improvement in the traffic connection to the east came about through the purchase of the Pesenthein campsite by the municipality of Millstatt, which resulted in the expansion of the main road on this section until 1975.

Web links

Commons : Millstätter Straße B98 - Collection of images

B98	Like the other former federal highways, Millstätter Strasse was part of the federal administration. Since April 1, 2002, it has been under state administration and continues to have the B in the number, but not the name Bundesstraße.