Name
These motorways are officially named Bundesautobahn (BAB), if their building and maintenance is ordered by the federal government. The German States are actually responsible for the roads on a federal plan of the transport system acting as the constructors in cases of network extensions. Some Bundesstraße, Landesstraße and municipal roads are also built like autobahns, but usually they are not classified as autobahns (only some are, e.g. A 995 Munich-Giesing – Brunntal). These not federal "autobahns" are called "autobahnähnlich" (autobahn similar) or "Gelbe Autobahn" (yellow autobahn) because often they are bundesstraßen with yellow signs. Otherwise some federal roads are classified as "Bundesautobahn" in spite they have no autobahn standard (f.e. A 62 near Pirmasens). In the 1930s when construction began on the system, the official name was Reichsautobahn.
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