Bundesstraße 6


The Bundesstraße 6 is a German federal highway running from Bremerhaven on the North Sea coast in a southeasterly direction through the states of Lower Saxony, Bremen, Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony to Görlitz on the Polish border.

History

East of Leipzig, the B6 largely follows the historic course of the Via Regia Lusatiae Superioris, part of the medieval Via Regia.
In 1937, the northwestern section of the former Reichsstraße 6 was extended from Bremerhaven to Cuxhaven. Before World War II and the implementation of the Oder–Neisse line, the R6 road continued southeastwards from Görlitz via Hirschberg and Schweidnitz to the Silesian capital Breslau and from there via Oels as far as the former Polish border near Groß Wartenberg. The sections between Görlitz/Zgorzelec and Syców then became part of the Polish National road 4 and the National road 8.
1989: Human chain along the F6 in Dresden-Bühlau
In the days of German partition, the section on East German territory was known as the F6. In Dresden the road went past the headquarters of VEB Tabakkontor Dresden, a tobacco firm formerly known as Yenidze. This led to the urban myth that the road had given its name to the cigarette brand f6.
As a result of the opening of the A 27 motorway between Cuxhaven and Bremen-Nord in the mid- to late-1970s the B6 was replaced by the A 27. Until that point the B6 had linked the two cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven in the state of Bremen and also connected them to Cuxhaven.
The old route in Cuxhaven from the start, apart from the Rohdestraße'' as far as the branch to the motorway slip road at Altenwalde junction was renamed the B73. The rest of the route to Bremen, with the exception of a short section in Bremerhaven, was downgraded to Landesstraße 135.