si ultima chestie despre istoria autobahnului...
"The idea for the construction of the Autobahn was first conceived during the days of the Weimar Republic, but apart from the AVUS in Berlin, construction was slow, and most projected sections did not progress much beyond the planning stage due to economic problems and a lack of political support. One project was the private initiative HaFraBa which planned a "car only road" (the name autobahn was created in 1929) crossing Germany from Hamburg in the North via central Frankfurt am Main to Basel in Switzerland.
Just days after the 1933 Nazi takeover, Adolf Hitler enthusiastically embraced an ambitious autobahn construction project and appointed Fritz Todt the Inspector General of German Road Construction. Soon, over 100,000 laborers worked at construction sites all over Germany. As well as providing employment and improved infrastructure, necessary for economic recovery efforts, the project was also a great success for propaganda purposes. In retrospect, one can say another aim of the autobahn project, beyond creating national unity and strengthening centralized rule, was to provide mobility for the movement of military forces (see Nazi architecture).
The autobahns formed the first limited-access, high-speed road network in the world, with the first section from Frankfurt am Main to Darmstadt opening in 1935.
This straight section was used for high speed record attempts by the Grand Prix racing teams of Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union until a fatal accident involving po****r German race driver Bernd Rosemeyer in early 1938."
sursa :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn#History
si primele sectiuni deschise...
19.05.1935 Frankfurt - Darmstadt
04.04.1936 Berlin - Joachimsthal (45 km)
05.04.1936 Lehrte - Braunschweig (32 km)
25.04.1936 Halle - Leipzig (26 km)
21.05.1936 Köln - Düsseldorf (25 km)
21.05.1936 Dibbersen - Sittensen (27 km)
24.05.1936 Weyarn - Rosenheim (33 km)
19.06.1936 Sittensen - Oyten (44 km)
17.08.1936 Weißenfels - Eisenberg
17.08.1936 Rosenheim - Siegsdorf
17.08.1936 Berlin - Magdeburg
17.08.1936 Helmstedt - Braunschweig
27.09.1936 Breslau - Kreibau
27.09.1936 Gleiwitz - Beuthen
27.09.1936 Schleiz - Berneck
27.09.1936 Joachimsthal - Stettin
27.09.1936 Frankfurt (Main) - Gießen
27.09.1936 Heidelberg - Karlsruhe
27.09.1936 Dresden - Wilsdruff
27.09.1936 Oberlichtenau - Rainholzheim
27.09.1936 Stuttgart - Unterboihingen
27.09.1936 Elbing - Neumünsterberg
27.09.1936 Kobbelbude - Conradswalde
27.09.1936 Teilstrecken bei Leipzig, Düsseldorf und Ulm
21.11.1936 Schkeuditz - Weißenfels (15 km)
12.12.1936 Düsseldorf-Nord - Oberhausen (17 km)
19.12.1936 Eisenberg - Schleiz (38 km)