Bundesautobahn 623

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A623
Bundesautobahn 623
Route information
Length 11.9 km (7.4 mi)
Major junctions
North end Friedrichsthal
South end Saarbrücken
Location
States Saarland
Highway system

Bundesautobahn 623 (translates from German as Federal Motorway 623, short form Autobahn 623, abbreviated as BAB 623 or A 623) is an autobahn in Germany.

The A 623 is a spur connecting the A 8 to Saarbrücken. As with the A 1 to the west, the A 623 does not enter the inner city. Connections to arteries into Saarbrücken are made at the final two junctions. Junction 7 offers a connection to the Camphauser Straße expressway, which leads to the B 268 and the B 51. The road also continues past junction 8 into Saarbrücken, but as the B 41. The section of B 41 immediately after junction 8, about 1.2 km, is a short Kraftfahrstrasse (expressway).

The entirety of the A 623 was once part of the B 41. When the road was designated as an autobahn, the B 41 designation remained. The concurrency is indicated on all distance signs along the A 623, a rarity for German roads. The concurrency continues a further three junctions to the east along the A 8.

There is no junction 6 along the A 623. This was to be the connection point with a proposed alignment of the A 1 into Saarbrücken. The planned route of the A 1 would have diverged from a location near that road's present-day junction 148 (Saarbrücken-Von der Heydt), then connecting with the A 623, continuing down the Camphauser Straße expressway, through Saarbrücken, and across the Westspange bridge to end at the A 620. For the same reason, the A 1 has no junction 149.

Exit list

(1) Friedrichsthal 3-way interchange
(2) Sulzbach-Altenwald
(3) Sulzbach
(4) Saarbrücken-Dudweiler
(5) Saarbrücken-Herrensohr
(7) Saarbrücken-Ludwigsberg ( )
(8) Saarbrücken-Rodenhof
  Road continues as the B 41 into Saarbrücken

References

    Autobahn Atlas: A623

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