Hochkönig Road


The Hochkönig Road, – the B 164 – is a state road in Austria. It has a length of. Beginning in Bischofshofen in the Salzach valley, it runs initially between the Hochkönig and Dienten Mountains along the Dienten Saddle 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, 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 :
With effect from 1 July 1962 the last two roads were extended:
The middle section between Mühlbach and Hinterthal wurde was declared a Konkurrenzstraße 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. In this case the shares were:
The Hochkönig Road has been part of the network of federal highways in Austria since 1 Jan 1973.

Traffic restrictions

The following restrictions apply to the Hochkönig Road:
no entry on the B 164 Hochkönigstraße from km 56.251 to km 75.76 in both directions for lorries over maximum permitted weight, excluding recovery and breakdown vehicles, military vehicles and lorries that load or unload, start or finish their journeys in the following municipalities: St. Johann in Tirol and Fieberbrunn in Tyrol, Hochfilzen and Leogang in the state of Salzburg.