from the route. In East Berlin F 5 passed the Brandenburg Gate, which became an East Berlin checkpoint within the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961, but was closed the very next day until December 22, 1989. F 5 gradually lost its function as transit route to new built autobahns (today's A 19 and A 24) until it was rededicated for intra-GDR traffic only on 21 December 1987. After the unification of East Berlin, the GDR and West Berlin with the Federal Republic of Germany on October 3, 1990, the F 5 was named into Bundesstraße 5 or B 5. Bypasses and upgrades Frankfurt (Oder) Müncheberg Herzfelde Dahlwitz Freidrichsfelde Berlin (Alexanderplatz) Wustermark (Nauen - Staaken Expressway) Nauen Friesack Wusterhausen (Dosse) Kyritz Perleberg Karstädt Grabow (L072) Grabow (A14) Boizenburg (Elbe) Bergedorf Bergedorf - Hamm Expressway Hamburg Stellingen - Pinneberg Pinneberg - Elmshorn (A23) Elmshorn (K23) Elmshorn - Itzehoe (A23) Itzehoe (Bekmunde) - Wilster - Brunsbüttel Diekshörn - Kattrepel Marne Helde - Freidrichstadt (through Tönning and B202) Husum Bredstedt References B005 B005 B005 B005 B005 005