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14-757: Alexisbad is located about 2 km (1.2 mi) northwest of the Harzgerode town centre on the Bundesstrasse 185 road to Ballenstedt . It is situated in the valley of the Selke river and its Schwefelbach and Friedenstalbach tributaries, in the lower eastern outskirts of the Harz mountain range, about 310 m (1,020 ft) above sea level . The settlement is surrounded by the Harz/Saxony-Anhalt Nature Park . In earlier years,

28-481: A tea house for Alexius' consort Marie Friederike , which later was turned into a Protestant chapel at the behest of Duchess Friederike of Anhalt-Bernburg . Alexisbad soon became a fashionable health resort. Among the first guests was the composer Carl Maria von Weber in 1820. On 12 May 1856, the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (Association of German Engineers, VDI) was founded here during

42-676: A total length of about 40,000 km. German Bundesstraßen are labelled with rectangular yellow signs with black numerals, as opposed to the white-on-blue markers of the Autobahn controlled-access highways . Bundesstraßen , like autobahns, are maintained by the federal agency of the Transport Ministry . In the German highway system they rank below autobahns, but above the Landesstraßen and Kreisstraßen maintained by

56-556: A vacation of several academics. The economy of the village is dominated by tourism . There are several hotels, pensions and restaurants. Hiking trails lead into the attractive local countryside. Typical destinations are: The author Walter Kempowski (1929–2007) spent his summer holidays in Alexisbad in 1939. He perpetuated the resort as Sophienbad in his 1971 autobiographic novel Tadellöser & Wolff . Bundesstrasse 185 The Bundesstraße 185 (abbreviation: B 185 )

70-601: Is a German federal road or Bundesstraße in the state of Saxony-Anhalt . It runs from east to west connecting the town of Dessau-Roßlau with the Harz mountain region. Between Kleinpaschleben and Dessau-Roßlau the B ;185 is part of the German Avenue Road . The present Bundesstraße 185 links the most important Residenz towns of the former Principality of Anhalt . Only the section between Aschersleben and Ermsleben lay on Prussian territory. This section

84-422: Is the site of the former Benedictine Hagenenrod Abbey, a filial monastery of Nienburg Abbey founded in 975. The Nienburg monks obtained market, minting and customs rights by King Otto III in 993. About 1000, the local Schwabengau counts of Ballenstedt , progenitors of the noble House of Ascania , served as Vogt protectors. Though the estates were placed under protection by Pope Alexander III in 1179,

98-701: The federal states ( Bundesländer ). Therefore, officially classified as Landesstraßen , they are still colloquially called Bundesstraßen and have retained their "B" designation (except for Vorarlberg ), followed by the number and a name. They are marked by a blue square sign with white number and are per se priority roads. Before 2002 there has been a further category of Bundesstraßen with circular yellow sign and black number that shows that this road has no fixed priority (right of way for users). A few yellow signs lived longer than 2002. Germany and Austria have plans to reconstruct and/or replace Bundesstraße as/by motorways (Autobahn), outside built-up areas, especially

112-441: The federal states and the districts respectively. The numbering was implemented by law in 1932 and has overall been retained up to today, except for those roads located in the former eastern territories of Germany . One distinguishing characteristic between German Bundesstraßen and Autobahnen is that there usually is a general 100 km/h (62 mph) speed limit on federal highways out of built-up areas , as opposed to

126-653: The federal highways are only single carriageway with one lane for each direction and no hard shoulder pull-out area. The closest equivalent in the United States would be the U.S. highway system . In contrast to Germany, according to a 2002 amendment of the Austrian federal road act, Bundesstraßen is the official term referring only to autobahns ( Bundesstraßen A ) and limited-access roads ( Schnellstraßen, Bundesstraßen S ). The administration of all other former federal highways ( Bundesstraßen B ) has passed to

140-527: The merely advisory speed limit ( Richtgeschwindigkeit ) of 130 km/h (83 mph) in unmarked sections of the autobahns. However, a number of Bundesstraßen have been extended as expressways ( dual carriageways ) (colloquially called "Yellow Autobahns"), which can be compared to motorway-grade A roads in the U.K. like the A1(M) . Many of these have speed limits of usually 100–120 km/h, others have only an advisory speed limit like autobahns. Most sections of

154-542: The monks later resettled to Naumburg and the premises, devastated during the German Peasants' War in 1525, decayed. When the Ascanian Princes of Anhalt had the region developed as a mining area, a gallery was excavated for pyrite in 1692. Mining was resumed under Prince Frederick Albert of Anhalt-Bernburg from 1759 onwards, and sulfur was produced by destillation . The healing properties of

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168-615: The spa town was known for its medicinal waters, of which the Alexisbrunnen, an iron -rich spring , is used for drinking water , while the Selkebrunnen supplies the baths . It has its own station on the narrow gauge steam railway section from Gernrode to Harzgerode , which is part of the historic Selke Valley Railway network operated by the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways company. The Selke valley

182-476: The waters were first examined in 1766, however, initial attempts to establish a medical care and spa business were not successful. In 1809 Prince Frederick Albert's successor Duke Alexius Frederick Christian Anhalt-Bernburg had the waters again analyzed by the physician Karl Ferdinand von Graefe , who stressed the content of iodine , fluorine , and iron . A spa town including a casino was laid out according to plans by Carl Friedrich Schinkel , who also designed

196-547: Was known as Prussian State Road No. 90a ( preußische Staatschaussee Nr. 90a ) which was completed in 1842. The 64.7 km long Reichsstraße 185 between Dessau and Aschersleben was built around 1937. In the 1960s the road was extended as far as Alexisbad in the Harz mountains. Bundesstra%C3%9Fe Bundesstraße ( German for "federal highway"), abbreviated B , is the denotation for German and Austrian national highways . Germany's Bundesstraßen network has

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