Pyhrnpass road

State road B138 in Austria
Basic data
Start of the street:	catfish
End of street:	Liezen ( 47 ° 34 ′  N , 14 ° 15 ′  E )
Overall length:	91.5 km
State :	Upper Austria Styria
Course of the road Upper Austria catfish catfish Traun District Wels-Land Thalheim near Wels Almtalbahn (195)  Sattledt    Sattledt Kirchdorf an der Krems district Almtalbahn Pettenbach , Ried im Traunkreis Inzersdorf in the Kremstal Krems Pyhrnbahn Kirchdorf an der Krems Micheldorf in Upper Austria Steyrtal Strasse 140 (28)  Klaus   Klaus at the Pyhrnbahn Pyhrnbahn Steyrling Steyr (36)  St. Pankraz   Saint Pankraz Teichl (48)  Windischgarsten   Windischgarsten Pyhrnbahn Edlbach Pyhrnbahn Spital am Pyhrn (57)  Spital am Pyhrn   Pyhrnpass ( 954  m above sea level ) Styria Liezen district (87.2)  Entrance to  Liezen (89.0)  Ennstal Street 200 m → Schoberpass-Straße

The street in Klaus . The Pyhrn Autobahn crosses in the middle distance

The Pyhrnpass Straße B 138 is a road with priority in Austria . It leads over a length of 91.5 km from Wels an der Traun over the Pyhrn Pass to Liezen an der Enns . The road initially runs through the Upper Austrian Traunviertel, parallel to the Pyhrn A 9 motorway . The entire route is accompanied by the Pyhrn Railway . It only separates from both in Spital am Pyhrn and leads over the Pyhrnpass, on the southern side of which it reaches Liezen.

history

With a pass height of 954 m, the Pyhrn Pass is one of the lowest crossings in the Eastern Alps , so that this trade route was already used in the Neolithic Age and was later expanded into a Roman road . In 1190, Bishop Otto II of Bamberg had a hospice built on the Pyhrn ("Spital am Pyhrn"), which served as a rest stop for traders and crusaders.

Between 1768 and 1771, today's road was built as a state “commercial and compulsory road”. “Compulsory road” meant that bypassing a toll booth was punished as a criminal offense. In 1856 there were nine toll stations between Wels and Spital am Pyhrn, which brought in around 6300 guilders a year for the state treasury. A stagecoach drove over the Pyhrnpass until 1906, before the Pyhrnbahn opened on August 21, 1906 .

The Pyhrnstraße (in Styria) and Steiermärker road (in Upper Austria) is a former imperial roads that were taken in 1921 as federal highways. Until 1938, Pyhrnstraße was designated as B 38, after the connection with Austria , Pyhrnstraße was used as Reichsstraße  332 until 1945 .

In the 1960s in particular, a large part of the Pyhrnpass federal road B 138 was expanded and some stretches were re-routed. After the opening of the autobahn Bosruck tunnel in 1983, the Pyhrnpass lost its importance for through traffic, but the traffic volume doubled on the other sections of the route within ten years. The construction of the Pyhrn motorway was intended to relieve the Pyhrnpass road from through traffic in the long term.

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1. ^ Federal law of July 8, 1921, regarding federal highways. Federal Law Gazette No. 387/1921.
2. ↑ Determination of the Reichsstrasse network in the Reichsgau Oberdonau by decree of the General Inspector for German Roads No. 1031-ObD-1 of April 1, 1940. Published in the Ordinance and Official Gazette for the Reichsgau Oberdonau

B138	Like the other former federal highways, Pyhrnpass 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.