D43 motorway ( cs, Dálnice D43), formerly Expressway R43 ( cs, Rychlostní silnice R43) is a

highway A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land. It is used for major roads, but also includes other public roads and public tracks. In some areas of the United States, it is used as an equivalent term to controlled-access ...

in the

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. If completed, it will connect cities

Brno Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic ...

and

Moravská Třebová Moravská Třebová (; german: Mährisch Trübau) is a town in Svitavy District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 9,700 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument ...

, and the D1 highway with the

R35 expressway D35 motorway ( cs, Dálnice D35), formerly Expressway R35 ( cs, Rychlostní silnice R35) is a highway in the Czech Republic. Once completed, it will be the second longest highway in Czech Republic, running from Úlibice to the D1 at Lipník na ...

. First project in that route was created after

Munich Agreement The Munich Agreement ( cs, Mnichovská dohoda; sk, Mníchovská dohoda; german: Münchner Abkommen) was an agreement concluded at Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, Germany, the United Kingdom, French Third Republic, France, and Fa ...

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, as an ex-territorial

Autobahn The (; German plural ) is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany. The official German term is (abbreviated ''BAB''), which translates as 'federal motorway'. The literal meaning of the word is 'Federal Auto(mobile) Track'. ...

A88 Breslau -

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, passing through territory of The Second Republic of Czechoslovakia with

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s on all exits. Construction began in April 1939, during

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and was halted on 73 km of route in April 1942 due to the increasing demands of

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. After war construction was not resumed, whole route was abandoned. In 1980s a modern plan for R43 was set up and first 7 km long segment from

to north was built. In 1990s plans of southern section with route straight through town centre of Brno were abandoned and other alternatives are considered, some of them using line of German autobahn. Existing segment of R43 is used as feeder only in some alternatives. Plans for northern part are using main part of German autobahn.

Images

File:Brno, Stará dálnice str1.jpg File:Jevíčko, podjezd pod hitlerovou dálnicí.JPG

External links

Info on ceskedalnice.cz

R43 Proposed roads in the Czech Republic {{CzechRepublic-road-stub