A 10
Bundesautobahn 10
Map of Berlin (A 10 highlighted)
Route information
Length	196 km (122 mi)
Major junctions
Beltway around Berlin
Major intersections	A 11 in Kreuz Barnim A 12 E30 in Grünheide A 13 A 113 E55 in Schönefelder Kreuz A 9 in Potsdam A 2 E30 in Dreieck Werder A 24 E26 E55 in Dreieck Havelland
Location
Country	Germany
States	Berlin, Brandenburg
Highway system
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← A 9 → A 11

Bundesautobahn 10 (translates from German as Federal Motorway 10, short form Autobahn 10, abbreviated as BAB 10 or A 10) is an orbital motorway around the German capital city of Berlin. Colloquially called Berliner Ring (Berlin Beltway), it is predominantly located in the state of Brandenburg, with a short stretch of 5 km (3 miles) in Berlin itself. It should not be confused with the Berliner Stadtring (Bundesautobahn 100) around Berlin's inner city.

With a total length of 196 km (122 miles), the BAB 10 is the longest orbital in continental Europe (Route 1 in Iceland is 1,322 km (821 mi)). The BAB 10 is 8 km (5 miles) longer than the M25 motorway around London.

Course

Berliner Ring between Ludwigsfelde and Nuthetal interchange

The highway route markers run clockwise from the interchange at Schwanebeck (the former Prenzlau branch-off), where the Bundesautobahn 11 runs to Szczecin, Poland via the Pomellen/Kołbaskowo border crossing and the Polish A6 autostrada. From here the beltway leads southwards to the Spreeau interchange with the Bundesautobahn 12 to Frankfurt (Oder) and the Polish A2 autostrada. At the Schönefeld four-way interchange, the Bundesautobahn 13 leads to Dresden and the Bundesautobahn 113 to the Berliner Stadtring and the Berlin city centre via Berlin Brandenburg Airport.

The Berliner Ring then runs westwards to Nuthetal, where the Bundesautobahn 115 (including the former AVUS race track) also links to the Stadtring at the Funkturm Berlin. Next the Bundesautobahn 9 leads to Munich (at the Potsdam interchange) and the Bundesautobahn 2 to the Ruhr area (at Werder). From here the beltway runs northwards to the Dreieck Havelland interchange with the Bundesautobahn 24 to Hamburg, and finally turns eastwards to the Oranienburg and Pankow interchanges with the Bundesautobahn 111 and Bundesautobahn 114 motorways both leading to the Berliner Stadtring. It again reaches Schwanebeck at km 196.

The beginning and end of the kilometer is the cross Barnim, which until 2013 Dreieck Schwanebeck was called. From there, the A11 from Stettin / Prenzlau joins the A10. In the direction of the kilometering (clockwise), the A12 leads from the outside at the triangle Spreeau, at the junction Schoenefeld the A13, at the triangle Potsdam the A9, at the triangle Werder the A 2 and at the triangle Havelland the A 24 in the Berliner Ring. The highway is connected to the Berliner Stadtring (A 100) and other parts of Berlin via the A 111 (Oranienburg), A 114 (Pankow), A 113 (Kreuz Schönefeld) and A 115 (Nuthetal), the northern part is called AVUS known), which open from the inside into the ring. The junctions Ludwigsfelde-Ost and Berlin-Spandau as well as the Oranienburg cross lead to motorway-like developed federal highways.

History

The first sections near Werder, Schwanebeck and Spreeau were opened between 1936 and the outbreak of World War II in 1939 as part of the Reichsautobahn program. Construction works were not resumed until 1972, when the East German authorities began to complete the orbital, in order to bypass West Berlin on the way from the capital East Berlin to Potsdam and the motorways leading to Magdeburg and Leipzig. The final stretch opened in 1979.

Those that are built from 1972 to 1979:

In the section between the former Berlin-Weißensee junction and the Berlin-Spandau interchange, the freeway completed today does not follow the original route.

East of today's triangle Pankow (A 114) on the B 109 the junction Pankow-Wandlitz should be created. From there, the projected route between the villages of Mühlenbeck and Schildow ran through to the planned Nordkreuz, which was to be built around one kilometer south of Schönfließ. It was planned to create a motorway interchange from the current A 11 south of Lanke to the designated feeder road in Wittenau. In the further course, the connection points Reinickendorf-Oranienburg were planned on the B 96 south of the Invalidensiedlung in Reinickendorf and Tegel-Hennigsdorf south of Velten. From there, the proposed route followed essentially the present day Berlin railroad outer ring to the junction Spandau-Pausin on the L 16. Immediately south of today's Havel Canal was the Hamburg Cross projected. From the planned junction Heerstraße-Nauen on the B 5 (today's name: Berlin-Spandau), the Berliner Ring has been built up to the junction Potsdam-Nord on the original route.

During the construction of the motorway Berlin-Szczecin-South (today: Kołbaskowo) in 1936 was built in the northern branch of the intersection Weißensee a gas station, which was however demolished without replacement in the course of the further construction of the ring and the redesign of the junction. During the reconstruction of the AD Schwanebeck (today: motorway junction Barnim) in 2012, part of the area was uncovered. The two fuel tanks still in the ground were full of water, but could be easily removed.

Planning

According to a press release by Brandenburg Transport Minister Jörg Vogelsänger on 1 February 2011, the motorway from the Junction Kremmen-South on the A 24 via the Havelland triangle to the Barnim cross in 2022 will be passable in six lanes. This relieves the busy northern Berliner Ring. At Oranienburg alone, 51,000 vehicles a day are on the road, just under a fifth of which are trucks. The total cost of the project is expected to total around 300 million euros.

In the course of expansion, the triangle Schwanebeck was redesigned into a motorway junction and renamed "Cross Barnim". The main roadway is now the Berliner Ring and not the direction of the northern Berliner Ring - A 11. The Berlin-Weißensee junction is omitted because of the immediate proximity to the motorway junction. Instead, the B 2 was transferred directly to the A 11 and at the same time the A 11 to 2.0 km fundamentally removed and rebuilt. The construction work began in the spring of 2010 with extensive clearing measures in the area of the motorway triangle Schwanebeck (construction plan) and the bridge construction between Weissensee and the triangle Pankow on the A 10. The groundbreaking ceremony for the conversion took place on 5 May 2011. After a construction period of 29 months, the motorway junction was officially handed over to traffic on November 11, 2013.

In July 2011, the planning approval decision for the six-lane expansion from the Neuruppin junction (A 24) to the junction Oberkrämer (A 10) including the reconstruction of the Havelland triangle was published. On 17 September 2012, the symbolic groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of the section triangle Havelland Kremmen. Overall, it was expected to cost 52 million euros. The European Union contributed €18 million to the financing from the European Regional Development Fund. The developed section was put into operation on September 27, 2014. In addition, on 7 October 2015, the developed section of Berlin was opened to traffic.

The route between the triangle Nuthetal and the triangle Potsdam should be expanded eight-lane. The construction costs are estimated at around 123 million euros, the plan approval decision is available since January 2013. 61 additional truck parking spaces are planned for the Michendorf service area. The afforestation as a compensatory measure for the environment are now carried out close to local complaints, instead of as originally planned by Ribbeck or Thyrow, also the use of open-pored asphalt (whispering asphalt) at Michendorf has now been included in the planning. On the noise barriers to be built originally photovoltaic systems were planned with a capacity of about 7.5 MWp. The tendering procedure for the construction of these "solar noise barriers" started in September 2013 and a private investor was to be found for this purpose. This was to bear the costs of increasing the originally planned six to eight-meter-high noise barriers to about ten meters and recover the associated additional costs of marketing the solar power. After no investor found this, the project for the construction of the photovoltaic systems and the increase of the noise protection walls is considered as failed. The start of construction of the section took place with the official ground-breaking ceremony on March 31, 2016, the costs are now reported at 150 million euros.

The section between the triangle Werder and Groß Kreutz is to be expanded to six lanes. These measures are in the urgent need of the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan. The replacement of the bridge over the Zernsee between the junctions Phöben and Leest has already been built six lanes, with currently only two lanes are released in each direction. Furthermore, the six-lane extension between Groß Kreutz and Havelland is planned (further demand with planning rights). In the area of the Berlin-Spandau interchange, the overpass of the newly built Federal Highway 5 has already been prepared for the upcoming expansion, as well as the double bridge over the Havel Canal in the further course.

Exit list

State	District	Municipality	km[1]	mi	Exit	Name	Destinations	Notes
Brandenburg	Barnim	Panketal	195.8 0.0		1	Dreieck Barnim	A 11 / E28 / B 2 – Szczecin (PL), Prenzlau, Weißensee, Schwanebeck
		Bernau bei Berlin	No major junctions
		Ahrensfelde	3.6		2	Berlin-Hohenschönhausen	B 158 – Hohenschönhausen, Blumberg, Bad Freienwalde
	Märkisch-Oderland	Hoppegarten	No major junctions
		Altlandsberg	10.9		3	Berlin-Marzahn	Marzahn, Altlandsberg, Strausberg
		Neuenhagen bei Berlin	12.3		TR	Seeberg
		Fredersdorf-Vogelsdorf	18.7		4	Berlin-Hellersdorf	B 1 / B 5 – Hellersdorf, Berlin-Zentrum, Strausberg, Müncheberg
		Rüdersdorf bei Berlin	21.6		5	Rüdersdorf	Rüdersdorf, Woltersdorf, Schöneiche
			24.8		PWC	Kalkberge		Counterclockwise direction only
	Oder-Spree	Woltersdorf	27.0		PWC	Kranichberge		Clockwise direction only
		Erkner	28.6		6	Erkner	Erkner, Köpenick, Grünheide (Mark), AM Erkner
			32.5		7	Freienbrink	Freienbrink, GVZ Freienbrink, Hangelsberg
		Gosen-Neu Zittau	No major junctions
		Spreenhagen	40.5		8	Dreieck Spreeau	A 12 / E30 – Warsaw (PL), Frankfurt (Oder)
	Dahme-Spreewald	Königs Wusterhausen	43.2		PWC	Uckleysee		Clockwise direction only
			43.3		PWC	Lankensee		Counterclockwise direction only
			46.4		9	Niederlehme	Niederlehme, Zernsdorf, Königs Wusterhausen port
		Wildau and Zeuthen	50.5		10	Königs Wusterhausen	B 179 – Königs Wusterhausen, Wildau, A10 Center
		Schönefeld	54.0		11	Schönefelder Kreuz	A 13 / A 113 / E36 / E55 – Dresden, Cottbus, Berlin-Zentrum, Berlin Brandenburg Airport
		Mittenwalde	58.0-58.2		TR	Am Fichtenplan
	Teltow-Fläming	Rangsdorf	No major junctions
		Blankenfelde-Mahlow	61.4		12	Rangsdorf	B 96 – Rangsdorf, Zossen, Dahlewitz, Tempelhof, AM Rangsdorf, FM Rangsdorf
		Rangsdorf	No major junctions
		Blankenfelde-Mahlow	66.9		PWC	Jünsdorfer Heide		Clockwise direction only
		Ludwigsfelde	70.7		13	Genshagen	Genshagen
			72.5		14	Ludwigsfelde-Ost	B 101 – Ludwigsfelde, Teltow, GVZ Großbeeren, Industriewerke Ludwigsfelde, Luckenwalde
			78.2		15	Ludwigsfelde-West	Ludwigsfelde
			79.1		PWC	Schieferberg		Counterclockwise direction only
			79.9		PWC	Siethener Elsbruch		Clockwise direction only
		Nuthetal	No major junctions
	Potsdam-Mittelmark	Michendorf	86.8		16	Dreieck Nuthetal	A 115 / E51 – Berlin-Zentrum, Zehlendorf, Potsdam-Zentrum
			90.9		17	Michendorf	B 2 – Michendorf, Potsdam, Beelitz, ST Michendorf
			91.5-91.7		TR	Michendorf
		Seddiner See and Schwielowsee	94.5		18	Ferch	Ferch, Neuseddin
		Schwielowsee	98.9		19	Dreieck Potsdam	A 9 / E51 – Munich, Leipzig
			102.2		20	Glindow	Glindow, Werder (Havel), Klaistow
			103.7		PWC	Caputh		Clockwise direction only
		Werder (Havel)	104.2		PWC	Schwielowsee		Counterclockwise direction only
		Kloster Lehnin	107.8		21	Dreieck Werder	A 2 / E30 – Hannover, Magdeburg
		Werder (Havel)	114.3		22	Groß Kreutz	B 1 – Groß Kreutz, Brandenburg an der Havel, Werder (Havel), Potsdam, AM Werder
			119.9		23	Phöben	Phöben, Werder (Havel)
			121.1		P			Clockwise direction only
			122.8		24	Leest	Leest, Töplitz
	Potsdam		127.5		25	Potsdam-Nord	B 273 – Potsdam, Marquardt, Ketzin/Havel
	Havelland	Wustermark	133.2-134.3		P
			136.9		26	Berlin-Spandau	B 5 – Spandau, Berlin-Zentrum, Falkensee, Wustermark, Nauen
		Brieselang	139.0		27	Brieselang	Brieselang, GVZ Wustermark
		Nauen	144.1		28	Falkensee	Falkensee, GVZ Brieselang
			145.6		P			Clockwise direction only
		Schönwalde-Glien	149.7-152.0		T	Wolfslake
	Oberhavel	Oberkrämer and Kremmen	155.0		29	Dreieck Havelland	A 24 / E26 / E55 – Hamburg, Rostock
		Oberkrämer	161.5		30	Oberkrämer	Oberkrämer, Velten
		Velten, Leegebruch, and Hohen Neuendorf	167.5		31	Dreieck Kreuz Oranienburg	A 111 / B 96 / E26 – Berlin-Zentrum, Reinickendorf, Stralsund, Oranienburg
		Birkenwerder	173.0		33	Birkenwerder	B 96 / E251 – Birkenwerder, Velten, AM Birkenwerder
		Hohen Neuendorf	176.0-176.4		P
		Mühlenbecker Land	180.2		34	Mühlenbeck	Mühlenbeck, Wensickendorf
			181.3-181.6		P
	Barnim	Wandlitz	No major junctions
	Oberhavel	Mühlenbecker Land	No major junctions
	Barnim	Wandlitz	185.9		35	Dreieck Pankow	A 114 – Berlin-Zentrum, Pankow
			186.6		Brandenburg-Berlin state border
Berlin			No major junctions
			191.9		Berlin-Brandenburg state border
Brandenburg	Barnim	Panketal	195.8 0.0		1	Dreieck Barnim	A 11 / E28 / B 2 – Szczecin (PL), Prenzlau, Weißensee, Schwanebeck

See also

• List of motorways in Germany
• Périphérique (Paris)
• M25 motorway (London)
• Capital Beltway (Washington, DC)
• MKAD (Moscow)
• A10 motorway (Netherlands) (Amsterdam)

References

External links

• Bundesautobahn 10 – detailed route plan (in German)