Bundesstraße 242
 | You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
Federal Highway 242 | |
|---|---|
| Bundesstraße 242 (German) | |
 | |
| Route information | |
| Length | 124 km (77 mi) |
| Major junctions | |
| East end | Seesen |
| West end | Mansfeld |
| Location | |
| Country | Germany |
| States | Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt |
| Highway system | |
| |
}}
 | This article contains a bulleted list or table of intersections which should be presented in a properly formatted junction table. |
The B 242 is a federal highway (German: Bundesstraße) in Germany. It runs from Seesen to Mansfeld.
Route
The B 242, also known as the Harz High Road (Harzhochstraße), runs right across the Harz mountains in central Germany. From Seesen on the northwestern edge of the Harz near the A 7 motorway it runs through the Upper Harz past Clausthal-Zellerfeld, the High Harz, where it is combined for several kilometres with the B 4, past Braunlage and then through the eastern Harz foothills into Mansfelder Land. There it joins the B 180 east of Klostermansfeld.
An extension of the B 242 via Polleben and Salzmünde to Halle (Saale) is being planned.
Rivers crossed
- Innerste
- Oderteich
- Warme Bode, near Sorge
- Hassel between Hasselfelde and Stiege
- Selke near Alexisbad
- Wipper in Mansfeld
Photographs
The highest point on the B 242 (828 m AMSL) between Dammhaus and Sonnenberg
View from the Harz highway of the Brocken
See also
