National road 3 (Belgium)

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	National road / Route nationale / N-Weg 3 in Belgium
	Basic data
Operator:
Start of the street:	Brussels ; ( 50 ° 51 ′ N , 4 ° 22 ′ E )
End of street:	Kelmis ( Aachen ) ; ( 50 ° 44 ′ N , 6 ° 2 ′ E )
Overall length:	136 km
Provinces :	Brussels Capital Region ; Flemish Brabant Province ; Limburg Province ; Liege Province ;
	The Rue de la Loi / Wetstraat in Brussels
	Brussels
	Walloon region

The N3 is a Belgian national road and leads from the Belgian capital Brussels via Leuven , Tienen , Sint-Truiden and Lüttich to the German border near Aachen . The federal highway 264 begins here . It runs over long distances parallel to the A3 Brussels - Aachen motorway and crosses it a total of three times. This road crosses all three Belgian regions (Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia ) and all three language areas of Belgium (German, French and Dutch).

history

In the 18th century, when Flanders was still part of the Austrian Netherlands , the construction of a well-developed network of paved roads began . (In Flanders and the Rhineland these streets were called "Steenweg" and "Steinweg" at that time, whereas in Northern Germany they were called " Chaussee ".)

In the Duchy of Brabant the road began in 1709 with the construction of the road between Brussels and Leuven. The section from Löwen to Tienen followed in 1715–1716, and in 1719 the section between Tienen and Sint-Truiden was also completed.

On November 21, 1715, Prince-Bishop of Liège Joseph Clemens of Bavaria approved the construction of a road from Liège to Sint-Truiden. It was the first paved artificial road in the Principality of Liège . A year later, on September 24th, 1716, the Prince-Bishop decided to build a road from Liège via Herve to Verviers.

The Jubelpark tunnel: The N3 leaves the Tervuren tunnel under the Jubelpark as Tervurenlaan

course

National road 3 starts on the Small Ring in Brussels at the Arts-Loi / Kunst-Wet intersection . In the direction of the city center it leads via the Rue de la Loi / Wetstraat , in the direction of Aachen it leads via the Rue Belliard / Belliardstraat . It passes under the Jubelpark / Parc du Cinquantenaire with the help of the Belliard tunnel and becomes Avenue de Tervueren / Tervurenlaan after passing the Tervurentor in Etterbeek . The Avenue de Tervuren / Tervurenlaan crosses from Montgomeryplatz the community Woluwe-Saint-Pierre / Sint-Pieters-Woluwe , leads on Woluwepark and on Parmentierpark over before it in Auderghem / Oudergem in the Tervuursesteenweg / Chaussee de Tervuren opens. After this intersection, the N 3 returns to Woluwe-Saint-Pierre / Sint-Pieters-Woluwe, where it crosses the Brussels Ring after having crossed the border between Flemish Brabant and the Brussels Capital Region in Tervuren . Shortly before lion it runs together with the national road 2 on the Louvain ring road and then crosses the highways A 3 in Bertem and A 2 in the Louvain suburb Heverlee . Between Löwen and Tienen , the N 3 runs parallel to the motorway and the railway line. In Sint-Truiden it reaches the Belgian province of Limburg , in Oreye it crosses the border with the Walloon province of Liège . At Loncin it crosses the A3 motorway again and then crosses the city center of Liège. In a north-easterly direction, the A3 motorway is crossed a third time in Soumagne . The N 3 finally crosses two German-speaking communities ( Lontzen and Kelmis ) before it merges into the federal highway 264 at the German-Belgian border .

Individual evidence

^ Annales des Travaux Publics de Belgique. Brussels 1846.

Web links

Detailed route description of the N3 from Brussels to Aachen: autosnelwegen.net/be (nl | en | de | fr)

[1] Annales des Travaux Publics de Belgique. Brussels 1846.