Bundesautobahn 562

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A562
Bundesautobahn 562
Region Bonn motorways.png
Route information
Length3 km (2 mi)
Location
States North Rhine-Westphalia
Highway system

Bundesautobahn 562 (translates from German as Federal Motorway 562, short form Autobahn 562, abbreviated as BAB 562 or A 562) connects the right with the left side of the Rhine River south of Bonn. The motorway has two or three lanes. The autobahn crosses the Rhine using the Konrad Adenauer Bridge. Along both sides of this bridge are cycle tracks and footpaths. In the center strip there is an urban railway line.

German language West Germanic language

German is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol (Italy), the German-speaking Community of Belgium, and Liechtenstein. It is also one of the three official languages of Luxembourg and a co-official language in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland. The languages which are most similar to German are the other members of the West Germanic language branch: Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low German/Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, and Yiddish. There are also strong similarities in vocabulary with Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, although those belong to the North Germanic group. German is the second most widely spoken Germanic language, after English.

Bonn Place in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

The Federal City of Bonn is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About 24 km (15 mi) south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region, Germany's largest metropolitan area, with over 11 million inhabitants. It is famously known as the birthplace of Ludwig Van Beethoven in 1770. Beethoven spent his childhood and teenage years in Bonn.

Konrad Adenauer German statesman, Federal Chancellor of Germany, politician (CDU)

Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer was a German statesman who served as the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 to 1963. He was co-founder and first leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), a Christian Democratic party that under his leadership became one of the most influential parties in the country.

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History

The route was once planned as a part of the A 56, which was to run from Waldbröl to the German/Dutch border in Selfkant.

Waldbröl Place in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Waldbröl is a town in the southern part of the Oberbergischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Selfkant Place in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Selfkant is a municipality in the Heinsberg district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the most westerly municipality in Germany since 1919; until then, the title had been held by Gravelotte, in Alsace-Lorraine. Selfkant's border with the Netherlands is 27 km long, but the border with the rest of Germany is only 6 km long.


Exit list

AB-AS-blau.svg (-) Bonn-Friesdorf/Dottendorf
AB-AS-blau.svg (1)Bonn-Bad Godesberg Bundesstrasse 9 number.svg
AB-AS-blau.svg (2)Bonn-Rheinaue
AB-Brucke.svg Konrad Adenauer Bridge 490 m (Rhine)
AB-AS-blau.svg (3)Bonn-Beuel-Süd
AB-Kreuz-blau.svg (4)Bonn-Ost 4-way interchange Bundesautobahn 59 number.svg Bundesstrasse 42 number.svg
AB-AS-blau.svg (-)Anschlussstelle

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