Heerstraße

Heerstraße is German for military road, a type or road that was built in order to enable the rapid movement of armies.

Specific roads built for this purpose include the:

• Aachen-Frankfurter Heerstraße
• Bernauer Heerstraße
• Lüneburger Heerstraße
• Heerstraße (Berlin)

Heerstraße is also used in:

• Berlin Heerstraße station, a railway station in Berlin
• Heerstraße (Frankfurt U-Bahn), a metro station on the Frankfurt U-Bahn
• British War Cemetery, Heerstraße, on the list of cemeteries in Berlin
• in Bremen since 1914 the name of former chaussees (for example, the Schwachhauser Heerstraße)
• a road in Frankfurt am Main, once part of the historic Elisabethenstraße

See also

• Roman road
• Military road