Bundesstraße 242

B242
Bundesstraße 242
Route information
Length:	124 km (77 mi)
Major junctions
East end:	Seesen
	Route Map Legend  Seesen  Herrhausen  Münchehof Kraftfahrstraße Münchehof common route with the Münchehof-Süd end of motor road Bad Grund local diversion Harz unincorporated area  Clausthal-Zellerfeld common route with the  Dammhaus  Sonnenberg common route with the Braunlage-Nord Kraftfahrstraße parking area Braunlage-Mitte Hasselkopf Tunnel (220 m) end of motor road Braunlage-Süd  Sorge Trans-Harz Railway  Tanne  Trautenstein  Hasselfelde  Stiege Selke Valley Railway  Güntersberge  Siptenfelde  Alexisbad  Harzgerode  Königerode  Leimbach Mansfeld Castle  Klostermansfeld
West end:	Mansfeld
Location
States:	Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt
Highway system
Roads in Germany Motorways (Autobahnen) Federal Highways (Bundesstraßen) E-roads

The B 242 is a federal highway (German: Bundesstraße) in Germany. It runs from Seesen to Mansfeld.

Route

The B 242, also known as the Harz High Road (Harzhochstraße), runs right across the Harz mountains in central Germany. From Seesen on the northwestern edge of the Harz near the A 7 motorway it runs through the Upper Harz past Clausthal-Zellerfeld, the High Harz, where it is combined for several kilometres with the B 4, past Braunlage and then through the eastern Harz foothills into Mansfelder Land. There it joins the B 180 east of Klostermansfeld.

An extension of the B 242 via Polleben and Salzmünde to Halle (Saale) is being planned.

Rivers crossed

• Innerste
• Oderteich
• Warme Bode, near Sorge
• Hassel between Hasselfelde and Stiege
• Selke near Alexisbad
• Wipper in Mansfeld

Photographs

The highest point on the B 242 (828 m AMSL) between Dammhaus and Sonnenberg

View from the Harz highway of the Brocken

See also

• List of federal roads in Germany