page_title: AVUS
section_title: Circuit
hierarchical_section_title: AVUS / Circuit
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Auto-Reichsfahrt, Avus, Berlin Scherl Bilderdienst Von der Auto-Reichsfahrt 1922. Ch. Riecken-Berlin, zweiter in Klasse VC, Sieger in der zweiten Bergprüfung und in der Flachprüfung. 10239-22 Information added by Wikimedia users.English: Car at the "AVUS", the first German motorway
context_page_description: The Automobil-Verkehrs- und Übungsstraße, known as AVUS, is a public road in Berlin, Germany. Opened in 1921, it is the oldest controlled-access highway in Europe. Until 1998, it was also used as a motor racing circuit. Today, the AVUS forms the northern part of the Bundesautobahn 115.
context_section_description: The highway is located in the southwestern districts of Berlin, linking the Stadtring at the Funkturm junction in Charlottenburg with Nikolassee. It runs through the Grunewald forest along the historic Königsweg road from Charlottenburg to Potsdam and the parallel Berlin-Blankenheim railway line.
  While normal for a road, it is unusually shaped for a race track as it is essentially two long straights in the form of a dual carriageway, with a hairpin corner at each end. The north curve featured a steep banking from 1937 to 1967. While the original layout was 19 km (12 mi) long, the southern turn was moved several times, to shorten the track to 8.3 km (5.2 mi), then 8.1 km (5.0 mi) without the banking, 4.8 km (3.0 mi) and finally 2.6 km (1.6 mi).
caption: ADAC Reichsfahrt, 1922
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