Bundesstraße 4
The Bundesstraße 4 is a German federal highway running in a northwesterly to southly 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 ; the section between Hallstadt and Erlangen is paralleled by the A 70 and A 73 and is also down-graded to a Staatsstraße.
in 1971.
The Bundesstraße 4 is the former Reichsstraße 4, 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 May 4, 1945.
