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Federal motorway in Germany
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Bundesautobahn117 (translates from German as Federal Motorway117, short form Autobahn117, abbreviated as BAB117 or A117) is an autobahn in Germany. The road that would become the A117 was opened on 6 October 1962 as the A113, intended as a connection from the A10-A13 junction in Schönefeld to the Berlin neighborhood of Adlershof. This road's path was similar to all of the A117's present-day route, then the A113's route south to the beginning of the A13.
Soon after reunification, a junction was built along the A113 at Waltersdorf (present-day A117 junction 2). In 1997, construction began in Neukölln on a new section of autobahn, which was to begin at the A100 and connect the inner city to Adlershof and the already-existing section of the A113. The new section was completed in 2008 and received the A113 designation. The stub that was left, from Waltersdorf into Treptow, was renumbered A117.
During construction of the A113 extension, a new three-way interchange had to be built at the point where the extension meets the existing roadway. The existing autobahn also had to be slightly rerouted, as the town's cemetery was isolated from the rest of its area by the road. The only way to resolve this problem and retain both the new junction and the existing junction was to combine the two junctions, although to this day they are still numbered separately.
When the A113-A117 project was completed, the portion of the B179 that ran into Berlin was downgraded to L 400, a fact that still has not been noted by most maps.
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