Route 46 is 70 kilometres long and is considered Germany’s longest officially registered motorway ruin. Today it is nothing more than a relic, recalling a major project from the Nazi era that was launched shortly before the Second World War and never completed.
The motorway runs between Bad Hersfeld and Würzburg. The route is shaped less by considerations of efficiency than by Nazi construction ideology and propaganda. It was intended to showcase to drivers the beauty of the German homeland. Scenic highlights were to include, for example, the Homburg castle ruins.
