Bundesstraße 4
Introduction The '''Bundesstraße 4''' (abbr. '''B4''') is a German federal highway running in a northwesterly to southerly direction from the state of Schleswig-Holstein to Bavaria. It provides a direct route for motorists traveling between Hamburg and Nuremberg.The section north of Hamburg is paralleled by Bundesautobahn 7 and the road is down-graded to a ''Landstraße'' (country road); the section between Hallstadt and Erlangen  is paralleled by the A 70 and A 73 and is also down-graded to a ''Staatsstraße'' (state road, same as country road).Building of the ''Fernverkehrsstraße'' 4 (long distance road) near Erfurt in 1971.The Bundesstraße 4 is the former Reichsstraße 4 (imperial road), on which north of Quickborn the last Commanding Admiral of the Kriegsmarine Friedeburg met with officers of the 2nd British Army to negotiate a truce with the Western Allied forces on 4 May 1945.
See also *Transport in Hamburg