A road that was a famous racetrack – The AVUS - Historic Berlin

(www.historicberlin.com) Known as the AVUS, this racetrack was originally designed in 1907 although it wasn’t opened until 1921.

Envisaged as a motor racing circuit as well as a testing circuit for the blossoming German motor industry, it was also a public toll road joining Charlottenburg and Nikolassee through the Grunewald Forest in Berlin’s south-west.

As a road it was simply a straight dual carriageway with a central reservation, but when it was used for racing a hairpin bend at each end turned it into a closed circuit.

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