Key facts
- Length
- 749 km (465 mi)
- North end
- Heiligenhafen
- Major intersections
- A 7 / A 39 in Seevetal A 7 in Seevetal A 2 in Kamen A 3 in Leverkusen A 4 in Köln A 6 / A 62 in Nonnweiler A 8 / A 623 in Illingen
- South end
- Saarbrücken
- Country
- Germany
- States
- Schleswig-Holstein , Hamburg , Niedersachsen , Bremen , North Rhine-Westphalia , Rhineland-Palatinate , Saarland
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- road
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Osnabrück
- Owned by
- Germany
- Followed by
- Bundesautobahn 2
- Image
- Bundesautobahn Hamburg 2009.jpg
- Length
- 774
- Connects with
- Bundesautobahn 59
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- maintained by
- Federal Ministry for Transport
- Commons category
- Bundesautobahn 1
- located in/on physical feature
- Schleswig-Holstein Uplands
- Commons gallery
- Bundesautobahn 1
- terminus location
- Saarbrücken
- transport network
- autobahn in Germany
- road number
- A 1
- mountain range
- Harburg Hills
- different from
- Autostrada A1
- short name
- Bundesautobahn 1
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Encyclopedic overview
Bundesautobahn 1 (translates from German as Federal Motorway 1, short form Autobahn 1, abbreviated as BAB 1 or A 1) is an autobahn in Germany. It runs from Heiligenhafen in Schleswig-Holstein to Saarbrücken in Saarland, a distance of 749 km (465 mi), but is incomplete between Cologne and Trier. B 207 continues north from Heiligenhafen to Puttgarden, at the end of the island of Fehmarn, with a ferry to Rødby, Denmark.
The part north of Hamburg is part of the Vogelfluglinie (Migratory Birds Line) and may be one day connected via a fixed link to Denmark (see below). The term Hansalinie (Hansa line) refers to the part from Lübeck (north of Hamburg, thus overlapping the Vogelfluglinie) south to the Ruhr Area (near Dortmund).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bundesautobahn 1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.