Highway Origin: Autobahn from Weimar Republic (Germany)
The official term is Bundesautobahn (abbreviated BAB), which translates as ‘federal motorway’ Idea for the construction of the autobahn was first conceived in the mid-1920s during the days of the Weimar Republic. The first public road of this kind was completed in 1932, which today that road is the Bundesautobahn 555. This road was not yet called Autobahn and lacked a centre … Read more