This is the End
The construction of highways/motorways ("dálnice", literally "farway" in czech) on the Czech soil commenced in 1939 as both direct and indirect consequence of the Munich agreement. The indirect one was that after several years of lingering, the czech government finally gave a green light to the project of a highway between Prague and Slovakia as an instant need to feed several hundred thousand refugees from now nazi Sudetenland emerged. The direct one was that according to the agreement Czechoslovakia was obliged to allow Germany to build a highway between then German cities of Breslaw (today Wroclaw in Poland) and Vienna traversing its territory. The interchange of the two highways was planned near Brno. This way the construction of two highways began about the same time in 1939 but neither of them was finished before the ban on all civilian construction was issued by german authorities in 1941 due to war shortages (nazi Germany occupied the remainder of Czech territory as soon as march 1939).
While the post-war changes of borders rendered the (now polish) Breslau - Vienna highway somewhat useless and the construction site was abandoned altogether (however there are plans to build R43 expressway on some parts of it), the works on the czech highway Prague - Brno - Slovakia were resumed. Unfortunately the works had low intensity and in fact were limited to the basic maintenance of what had been built before 1941. In 1950 the works stopped altogether as the government of now communist Czechoslovakia didn't see the future in something so individualist like an automobile. The construction sites remained vacant until the late 1960s when the new boom of motorism forced government to resume the construction once again. The new highway used as many of the previously built structures as ingeneers were able to design despite sometimes more modern codes amounted into some really awkward solutions.
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To the very end of a planned Nazi highway... worth seeing? I guess so...
This is the End
The construction of highways/motorways ("dálnice", literally "farway" in czech) on the Czech soil commenced in 1939 as both direct and indirect consequence of the Munich agreement. The indirect one was that after several years of lingering, the czech government finally gave a green light to the project of a highway between Prague and Slovakia as an instant need to feed several hundred thousand refugees from now nazi Sudetenland emerged. The direct one was that according to the agreement Czechoslovakia was obliged to allow Germany to build a highway between then German cities of Breslaw (today Wroclaw in Poland) and Vienna traversing its territory. The interchange of the two highways was planned near Brno. This way the construction of two highways began about the same time in 1939 but neither of them was finished before the ban on all civilian construction was issued by german authorities in 1941 due to war shortages (nazi Germany occupied the remainder of Czech territory as soon as march 1939).
While the post-war changes of borders rendered the (now polish) Breslau - Vienna highway somewhat useless and the construction site was abandoned altogether (however there are plans to build R43 expressway on some parts of it), the works on the czech highway Prague - Brno - Slovakia were resumed. Unfortunately the works had low intensity and in fact were limited to the basic maintenance of what had been built before 1941. In 1950 the works stopped altogether as the government of now communist Czechoslovakia didn't see the future in something so individualist like an automobile. The construction sites remained vacant until the late 1960s when the new boom of motorism forced government to resume the construction once again. The new highway used as many of the previously built structures as ingeneers were able to design despite sometimes more modern codes amounted into some really awkward solutions.
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To the very end of a planned Nazi highway... worth seeing? I guess so...