Bundesstraße 214

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B 214
Bundesstraße 214
Lingen
Major intersections
Route Map Lingen (Ems) B 70 B 213 Thuine Freren Fürstenau B 402 Schwagstorf B 218 Ankum Bersenbrück B 68 Gehrde (66) Holdorf A 1 Holdorf Steinfeld (Oldb) Diepholz B 51 Rehden B 239 Sulingen B 61 Borstel Nienburg B 6 B 209 B 215 Steimbke Schwarmstedt (50) Schwarmstedt A 7 Wietze Hambühren Celle B 3 B 191 B 244 Eicklingen Uetze B 188 B 444 Schwülper (53) Braunschweig-Watenbüttel A 2 Braunschweig-Watenbüttel A 392
East end	Brunswick
Location
Country	Germany
States	Lower Saxony
Highway system
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The Bundesstraße 214 (B 214) is a federal road that runs from

• Lower Saxony
  • Emsland district
    • Lingen (Ems), Thuine, Freren, Andervenne
  • Osnabrück district
    • Fürstenau, Ankum, Bersenbrück, Gehrde, Badbergen
  • Vechta district
    • Holdorf, Steinfeld (Oldenburg)
  • Diepholz district
    • Diepholz, Wetschen, Rehden, Hemsloh, Barver, Wehrbleck, Sulingen (ring road), Maasen, Borstel
  • Landkreis Nienburg/Weser
    • Nienburg/Weser (Ortsumgehung), Steimbke, Rodewald
  • Soltau-Fallingbostel district
    • Gilten, Schwarmstedt, Essel, Buchholz (Aller)
  • Celle district
    • Wietze, Hambühren, Celle, Wienhausen, Eicklingen, Bröckel (ring road)
  • Hanover Region
    • Uetze (Village in Kreuzkrug, part of Eltze)
  • Gifhorn district
    • Meinersen (village in Ohof)
  • Peine district
    • Edemissen, Wendeburg (part of Neubrück)
  • Gifhorn district
    • Schwülper
  • Brunswick

Rivers crossed

• Hase, in Bersenbrück
• Hunte, in Diepholz
• Wagenfelder Aue, in Barver
• Weser, in Nienburg
• Leine, in Schwarmstedt
• Wietze, in Wietze
• Fuhse, in Celle shortly before its confluence with the Aller
• Mittelland Canal, in Brunswick north of Watenbüttel

History

Origin

The metalled, man-made road (Chaussee) between Brunswick and Celle was built from 1804 to 1815 and called Celler Straße.

The westernmost section between Lingen, Fürstenau and Bersenbrück was opened to traffic on 1 July 1856. A regular

Between 1934 and 1938 the road was called the Reichsstraße 214.

The B 214 used to run within Brunswick past its present end at Amalienplatz down Celler Straße and the western arm of the Oker and the Radeklint to the city centre.

Since the Reichsstraße times many of the B 214's former routes through villages and towns have been replaced by ring road section, the last (in 2008) being the bypass around Diepholz. Since the B 214 now crosses the Weser at Nienburg together with the B 6, there is no longer the risk of it being closed due to flooding.

Replacements

The section between Brunswick and Watenbüttel and the so-called northern ring road in Brunswick around the formerly separate village of Ölper was replaced in the 1980s by the roughly 4 km long A 392 motorway (so-called Nordtangente Braunschweig), which then runs on eastwards to the exit at Hamburger Straße.

The very short A 392 even has a motorway intersection, the Ölper Knoten with the A 391.

Cancelled plans

The route from Nienburg as far as the crossing with the B 3 near Celle was originally to have been upgraded to form part of the scrapped A 32 autobahn project.

Tourism

Holiday routes

The German Timber-Frame Road runs along the B 214 between Celle and Brunswick.

Places of interest

• Castle and historic old town (Altstadt) at Fürstenau
• St. Nicholas' Church (St.Nikolaus-Kirche or Artländer Dom) in Ankum
• Wienhausen Abbey
• Abbay Franziskanerinnen vom hl. Martyrer Georg Thuine
• Megalith-Stones Ankum, Freren and Thuine

See also

• List of federal roads in Germany