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Heerstraße
Heerstraße is the German word for military road, a type or road that was built to enable the rapid movement of armies.
Specific roads built for this purpose include the:
Heerstraße is also used in:
- Berlin Heerstraße station, a railway station in Berlin
- Heerstraße (Frankfurt U-Bahn), a metro station on the Frankfurt U-Bahn
- British War Cemetery, Heerstraße, on the list of cemeteries in Berlin
- in Bremen since 1914 the name of former chaussees (for example, the Schwachhauser Heerstraße)
- a road in Frankfurt am Main, once part of the historic Elisabethenstraße
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- Heerstr Kaulsdorf 2011-10-06 AMA fec.JPG by Angela M. Arnold (44 penguins), CC BY-SA 2.0
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