The Hochkönig Road ( German : Hochkönig Straße or, in Tyrol, Hochkönigstraße ), – the B 164 – is a state road ( Landesstraße ) in Austria . It has a length of 75 kilometres (47 mi). Beginning in Bischofshofen in the Salzach valley, it runs initially between the Hochkönig and Dienten Mountains along the Dienten Saddle ( 1,342 m (AA) ) and on into the valley of the Saalach to Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer . On the far side of the Saalach the road runs into the Leoganger Tal between the Leoganger Steinberge and the Loferer Steinberge to the north and the Kitzbühel Alps to the south via Leogang up to the Grießen Pass ( 975 m above sea level (AA) ), and via Fieberbrunn downhill again into the valley of the Kitzbühler Ache to St. Johann in Tirol . On the last section the road runs parallel to the Salzburg-Tyrol Railway .
8-451: Since 1948 three sections of the present-day Hochkönig Road in the state of Salzburg have been classified as Class II state highways ( Landesstraßen ): With effect from 1 July 1962 the last two roads were extended: The middle section between Mühlbach and Hinterthal wurde was declared a Konkurrenzstraße (literally "competitive road") by the state act of 11 April 1962. In Austrian legal language Konkurrenz means joint financing of
16-539: 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 the federal highways are only single carriageway with one lane for each direction and no hard shoulder pull-out area. The closest equivalent in
24-853: A project by various institutions, of which each takes on a legally defined percentage of the maintenance costs. In this case the shares were: The Hochkönig Road has been part of the network of federal highways ( Bundestrassen ) in Austria since 1 Jan 1973. The following restrictions apply to the Hochkönig Road: no entry on the B 164 Hochkönigstraße from km 56.251 (Hochfilzen municipality) to km 75.76 (St. Johann in Tirol) in both directions for lorries over 7.5 tonnes (7.4 long tons; 8.3 short tons) maximum permitted weight, excluding recovery and breakdown vehicles, military vehicles and lorries that load or unload, start or finish their journeys in
32-402: 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 the merely advisory speed limit ( Richtgeschwindigkeit ) of 130 km/h (83 mph) in unmarked sections of the autobahns. However,
40-729: 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 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
48-582: The following municipalities: St. Johann in Tirol and Fieberbrunn in Tyrol, Hochfilzen and Leogang in the state of Salzburg. Bundestrassen Bundesstraße ( German for "federal highway"), abbreviated B , is the denotation for German and Austrian national highways . Germany's Bundesstraßen network has a total length of about 40,000 km. German Bundesstraßen are labelled with rectangular yellow signs with black numerals, as opposed to
56-475: 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
64-712: 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 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
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