Autobahn
Autobahn is a German loanword for controlled-access highways. An autobahn is for fast travel by road vehicles.
Word
The word Autobahn contains German: [Auto] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), and German: [Bahn] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help).[1]
In English, autobahn means a highway especially in a German-speaking country.[2] This means Germany and Austria, and usually also Switzerland. In German, however, Autobahn means a highway anywhere in the world.[2]
Networks
- Bundesautobahn in Austria
- Bundesautobahn in Germany
- Autobahn in Switzerland
Autobahn Media
- Bundesautobahn 2 number.svg
German Autobahn number signet.
- Bundesautobahn 14 number.svg
German Autobahn number signet.
- Bundesautobahn 63 number.svg
- Bundesautobahn__number
- Bundesautobahn 480 number.svg
- Bundesautobahn__number
- Frankfurter Kreuz - BAB 3 und 5.jpg
A 3 and A 5 at Frankfurter Kreuz near Frankfurt am Main
- Autobahn-A3-Flughafen-Rhein-Main-2013-Ffm-035.jpg
Overhead signage on A 3
- Deutschland Autobahnen Nummerierung.svg
Numbering pattern of autobahns in Germany: single digit autobahns in black and colored first digit regions for two or three digit autobahns
- Bundesarchiv Bild 183-H04560, Österreich, Reichsautobahn, Adolf Hitler, Spatenstich.jpg
Hitler ceremonially starts the excavation works for the first Austrian autobahn (1938).
Sources
- ↑ "Autobahn Definition & Meaning". Dictionary.org. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "The German autobahn". I am expat. March 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
Other websites
- Autobahn-Bilder.de (German) – pictures of highways (not limited to autobahns)