Hochkönig Road
road in Austria
The Hochkönig Road (German: Hochkönig Straße or, in Tyrol, Hochkönigstraße), – the B 164 – is a state road (Landesstraße) in Austria. It has a length of 75 kilometres (47 mi). Beginning in Bischofshofen in the Salzach valley, it runs initially between the Hochkönig and Dienten Mountains along the Dienten Saddle (1,342 m (AA)) and on into the valley of the Saalach to Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer. On the far side of the Saalach the road runs into the Leoganger Tal between the Leoganger Steinberge and the Loferer Steinberge to the north and the Kitzbühel Alps to the south via Leogang up to the Grießen Pass (975 m above sea level (AA)), and via Fieberbrunn downhill again into the valley of the Kitzbühler Ache to St. Johann in Tirol. On the last section the road runs parallel to the Salzburg-Tyrol Railway.
History
Since 1948 three sections of the present-day Hochkönig Road in the state of Salzburg have been classified as Class II state highways ( Landesstraßen):
The 9.6 km-long (6.0 mi) Mühlbach Road (Mühlbacher Straße) between Bischofshofen and Mühlbach
The 5.7 km-long (3.5 mi) Alm Road (Almer Straße) between Alm and Saalfelden
The 7.1 km-long (4.4 mi) long Leogang Road (Leoganger Straße) between Saalfelden and Leogang
With effect from 1 July 1962 the last two roads were extended:
The Alm Road was lengthened by 8.2 km (5.1 mi) as far as Hinterthal.
The Leogang Road was lengthened by 11.0 km (6.8 mi) as far as the Tyrolean state border at the Grießen Pass.
The middle section between Mühlbach and Hinterthal wurde was declared a Konkurrenzstraße (literally "competitive road") by the state act of 11 April 1962. In Austrian legal language Konkurrenz means joint financing of a project by various institutions, of which each takes on a legally defined percentage of the maintenance costs.
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