Bundesstraße 214

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Bundesstraße 214" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) ‹ The template below (Cleanup road junction list) is being considered for merging with Exit list. See templates for discussion to help reach a consensus. › This article contains a bulleted list or table of intersections which should be presented in a properly formatted junction table. Please consult this guideline for information on how to create one. Please improve this article if you can. (December 2021) You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (March 2024) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Bundesstraße 214]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Bundesstraße 214}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation. (Learn how and when to remove this message)

B 214
Bundesstraße 214
Route information
Length	250 km (160 mi)
Major junctions
West end	Lingen
Major intersections
Route Map Lingen (Ems) B 70 B 213 Thuine Freren Fürstenau B 402 Schwagstorf B 218 Ankum Bersenbrück B 68 Gehrde (66) Holdorf A 1 Holdorf Steinfeld (Oldb) Diepholz B 51 Rehden B 239 Sulingen B 61 Borstel Nienburg B 6 B 209 B 215 Steimbke Schwarmstedt (50) Schwarmstedt A 7 Wietze Hambühren Celle B 3 B 191 B 244 Eicklingen Uetze B 188 B 444 Schwülper (53) Braunschweig-Watenbüttel A 2 Braunschweig-Watenbüttel A 392
East end	Brunswick
Location
Country	Germany
States	Lower Saxony
Highway system
Roads in Germany Autobahns List Federal List State E-roads

The Bundesstraße 214 (B 214) is a federal road that runs from Lingen to Brunswick in northern Germany.^[1]

The B 214 begins on the Lingen Heights, the highest elevation in the Emsland, where it branches off the B 70 and B 213, and runs eastwards in the north of Osnabrück district, where it crosses the Ankum Heights in the North Teutoburg Forest-Wiehengebirge Nature Park. It crosses the A 1 autobahn at the Holdorf exit. The B 214 then continues, crossing the Damme Hills and runs north of the Dümmer lake through numerous boggy (moor) areas. In Nienburg it crosses the River Weser. East of the Leine river B 214 runs parallel to the Aller through the southern part of the Lüneburg Heath. It crosses the A 7 motorway at the Schwarmstedt exit. Behind Celle it changes direction to the southeast and continues on west of the river Oker. In Ohof near Meinersen it runs over the Hanover–Berlin high-speed railway, where there was a level crossing until 1997. Beyond the Wendeburg village of Neubrück it crosses the A 2 motorway and then the Mittelland Canal. Passing through Watenbüttel it finally arrives at Brunswick. It ends there today at Amalienplatz on the central ring road in the town and merges into the B 1.

• Lower Saxony
  • Emsland district
    • Lingen (Ems), Thuine, Freren, Andervenne
  • Osnabrück district
    • Fürstenau, Ankum, Bersenbrück, Gehrde, Badbergen
  • Vechta district
    • Holdorf, Steinfeld (Oldenburg)
  • Diepholz district
    • Diepholz, Wetschen, Rehden, Hemsloh, Barver, Wehrbleck, Sulingen (ring road), Maasen, Borstel
  • Landkreis Nienburg/Weser
    • Wietzen, Marklohe, Nienburg/Weser (Ortsumgehung), Steimbke, Rodewald
  • Soltau-Fallingbostel district
    • Gilten, Schwarmstedt, Essel, Buchholz (Aller)
  • Celle district
    • Wietze, Hambühren, Celle, Wienhausen, Eicklingen, Bröckel (ring road)
  • Hanover Region
    • Uetze (Village in Kreuzkrug, part of Eltze)
  • Gifhorn district
    • Meinersen (village in Ohof)
  • Peine district
    • Edemissen, Wendeburg (part of Neubrück)
  • Gifhorn district
    • Schwülper
  • Brunswick

• Hase, in Bersenbrück
• Hunte, in Diepholz
• Wagenfelder Aue, in Barver
• Weser, in Nienburg
• Leine, in Schwarmstedt
• Wietze, in Wietze
• Fuhse, in Celle shortly before its confluence with the Aller
• Mittelland Canal, in Brunswick north of Watenbüttel

The metalled, man-made road (Chaussee) between Brunswick and Celle was built from 1804 to 1815 and called Celler Straße.

The westernmost section between Lingen, Fürstenau and Bersenbrück was opened to traffic on 1 July 1856. A regular post coach ran on this road from that day until the opening of the Rheine–Quakenbrück railway on 1 July 1879. From 1925 the section between Freren and Lingen was served by a bus line.

Between 1934 and 1938 the road was called the Reichsstraße 214.

The B 214 used to run within Brunswick past its present end at Amalienplatz down Celler Straße and the western arm of the Oker and the Radeklint to the city centre.

Since the Reichsstraße times many of the B 214's former routes through villages and towns have been replaced by ring road section, the last (in 2008) being the bypass around Diepholz. Since the B 214 now crosses the Weser at Nienburg together with the B 6, there is no longer the risk of it being closed due to flooding.

The section between Brunswick and Watenbüttel and the so-called northern ring road in Brunswick around the formerly separate village of Ölper was replaced in the 1980s by the roughly 4 km long A 392 motorway (so-called Nordtangente Braunschweig), which then runs on eastwards to the exit at Hamburger Straße.

The very short A 392 even has a motorway intersection, the Ölper Knoten with the A 391.

The route from Nienburg as far as the crossing with the B 3 near Celle was originally to have been upgraded to form part of the scrapped A 32 autobahn project.

The German Timber-Frame Road runs along the B 214 between Celle and Brunswick.

• Castle and historic old town (Altstadt) at Fürstenau
• St. Nicholas' Church (St.Nikolaus-Kirche or Artländer Dom) in Ankum
• Wienhausen Abbey
• Abbay Franziskanerinnen vom hl. Martyrer Georg Thuine
• Megalith-Stones Ankum, Freren and Thuine

• List of federal roads in Germany