It does not lead to somewhere. It is a marking on the Autobahn, so you can tell at which point of the Autobahn you are in case of an emergency for example. “I’m at kilometre 565 of the A3” as an example.
It “leads” from start to end. So with the name and the km mark you can pinpoint your current location.
It basically marks the distance from the beginning of this specific autobahn. Useful, as emergency responders can pinpoint your position that way.
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Each Autobahn has an “offical” start and end (eg. A9 is Munich-Berlin) and the km signs measure from one end to the current position.
There are a couple exceptions, where Autobahns are “broken” (eg A8 which has some gaps) and the km signs MIGHT not measure from the most remote end.
Of course to rome /jk
Usually where the Autobahn Starts and where it ends…
In example of the longest one (A7) it starts with 0 at the Danish border at Ellund and ends at 962,2 at the australian border at Füssen.
I’m not sure if they take the whole length… Because then the A7 becomes the E45 and starts in Alta, Norway and goes 5190km southwards to Gela, Sicily.
they are markers for emergencies. if you need to call adac or notruf you can tell them that you’re on autobahn xy heading towards (insert random city here) at kilometer xyz
All roads lead to Rome!
Haven’t you read Asterix?
Warsaw…
To where the Autobahn leads (descending) or from where the Autobahn originated (ascending)
all streets lead to rome, you know?!
What happens if the autobahn gets extended from the 0 km mark to what would be negative?
You have kilometer marks on any federal way of transportation, not just the Autobahn, but also railway tracks, Bundesstraßen and waterways.
They are used to designate locations, not only for emergency services, but also for maintenance, construction, access bureaucracy and such. It’s just the easiest way to tell where something is: “It’s x units of measurement down the road.”
That’s how house numbers work, too.
Not quite true, it counts to 173.1 until the Hamburg/Lower Saxony border, then from 9.7 down to 1.8 (Horster Dreieck), and then from 18.0 up again.
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It does not lead to somewhere. It is a marking on the Autobahn, so you can tell at which point of the Autobahn you are in case of an emergency for example. “I’m at kilometre 565 of the A3” as an example.
It “leads” from start to end. So with the name and the km mark you can pinpoint your current location.
It basically marks the distance from the beginning of this specific autobahn. Useful, as emergency responders can pinpoint your position that way.
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Each Autobahn has an “offical” start and end (eg. A9 is Munich-Berlin) and the km signs measure from one end to the current position.
There are a couple exceptions, where Autobahns are “broken” (eg A8 which has some gaps) and the km signs MIGHT not measure from the most remote end.
Of course to rome /jk
Usually where the Autobahn Starts and where it ends…
In example of the longest one (A7) it starts with 0 at the Danish border at Ellund and ends at 962,2 at the australian border at Füssen.
I’m not sure if they take the whole length… Because then the A7 becomes the E45 and starts in Alta, Norway and goes 5190km southwards to Gela, Sicily.
they are markers for emergencies. if you need to call adac or notruf you can tell them that you’re on autobahn xy heading towards (insert random city here) at kilometer xyz
All roads lead to Rome!
Haven’t you read Asterix?
Warsaw…
To where the Autobahn leads (descending) or from where the Autobahn originated (ascending)
all streets lead to rome, you know?!
What happens if the autobahn gets extended from the 0 km mark to what would be negative?
You have kilometer marks on any federal way of transportation, not just the Autobahn, but also railway tracks, Bundesstraßen and waterways.
They are used to designate locations, not only for emergency services, but also for maintenance, construction, access bureaucracy and such. It’s just the easiest way to tell where something is: “It’s x units of measurement down the road.”
That’s how house numbers work, too.
Not quite true, it counts to 173.1 until the Hamburg/Lower Saxony border, then from 9.7 down to 1.8 (Horster Dreieck), and then from 18.0 up again.
http://www.autobahnatlas-online.de/A7.htm
All roads lead to Rome
In all honesty, no fukin clue
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