Provincial Road

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The term Provinzialstraße was used in Germany until the 1930s for streets whose construction load was borne by a provincial administration. In Belgium the term is used for the N-roads with three-digit numbers. They are also known as fourth category national roads. In the Netherlands it is the roads that are owned by the provinces there. These usually have a three-digit number and are divided into two categories.

Germany

The Provinzialstraße is an outdated street classification in Germany . The state road was classified above the Provincial Road, for the cost of which the state had to pay. The district or county roads were arranged below the Provincial Road, and the district or county was responsible for building and maintaining them . During the Nazi era , with the centralization of the German road system in 1934, the provincial roads were rededicated in Reichsstraßen or state roads of the 1st or 2nd order, which correspond to federal roads , state roads and district roads, depending on their traffic importance and connection function . The designation has still been preserved in many places, especially as an official proper name in town passages.

Belgium

The Belgian provincial roads have the letter N and a three-digit number, the first digit of which gives information about the corresponding province. Since there were nine Belgian provinces when the numbering was introduced, the nine initial digits were sufficient. The province of Brabant has now been dissolved. They were replaced by the capital region of Brussels and the new provinces of Flemish Brabant and Walloon Brabant , whose provincial roads continue to begin with the number 2 originally assigned to them .

The provincial roads start with the following digits:

When crossing a provincial border, the streets initially keep the numbering - often only for a short street section - even if the responsibility changes.

Netherlands

In the Netherlands, the provincial roads (Dutch: provinciale because) are divided into two categories according to their importance.

In the first category, after the letter N (in individual cases also A for motorway sections), they initially received numbers from 200 to 400. Since the number range was no longer sufficient, the numbers 197 to 199 have now also been released. Other streets will be able to carry numbers from 175. Provincial groups were formed to assign numbers. The numbers were assigned to the following provinces:

The second category provincial roads are those of lesser importance. They are not always shown on signs and in the mileage. Often times, the through-roads are left out and are therefore publicly owned. Here the numbers were assigned by province. However, there are exceptions in individual cases. The numbers are not changed when crossing a provincial border. Responsibility very often - but not always - remains with the province in which the respective provincial road is located. The numbers were assigned to the provinces in the following way:

  • 401 to 430: Utrecht Province
  • 431 to 500: Province of Zuid-Holland
  • 501 to 550: Province of North Holland
  • 551 to 600: Limburg Province
  • 601 to 650: Province of Noord-Brabant
  • 651 to 700: Province of Zeeland
  • 701 to 730: Flevoland province
  • 731 to 780: Overijssel Province
  • 781 to 850: Gelderland Province
  • 851 to 900: Drenthe Province
  • 901 to 950: Fryslân Province
  • 951 to 999: Groningen Province

Individual provinces were numbered backwards. In some provinces a further subdivision was made according to geographical criteria.

Why there were individual exceptions cannot be explained. For example, the provincial roads N 860, N 861 and N 865 are in the province of Groningen, although they are part of the province of Drenthe.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Routes . In: Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon 1894-1896, Volume 16, pp. 574-575.

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