Kaltenkirchen Airport
| Kaltenkirchen Airport (planned) |
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| Height above MSL | 31 m (102 ft ) | ||
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| Distance from the city center | 34 km north of Hamburg | ||
| Street | A 7 , B 4 | ||
The plan to build an airport in Kaltenkirchen was a project that began in the 1960s, has never been realized and has since been abandoned for a major airport for Hamburg - comparable on the one hand to the also unrealized Berlin major airport at Sperenberg , but on the other hand also to the one in Operating airport Munich II near Freising for Munich. It was supposed to replace the downtown Fuhlsbüttel airport . At the location west of Kaltenkirchen , the Hamburg Airport Company bought large areas for this in the following years. These are still in their possession and have even been increased in the meantime. According to the spokeswoman for Hamburg Airport GmbH (FHG) , which is responsible for a possible construction, in 2003 the company increased the area to 2100 hectares.
In addition, the former Hamburg Senator for Economic Affairs Gunnar Uldall ( CDU Hamburg ) explained to the members of the Hamburg Aviation Press Club that Hamburg is keeping all options open in order to be able to realize the project. You own a number of the necessary areas and swap more in order to have the future airport site completely under control. A new building could then be started quickly. Keeping the option open does not entail any costs for Hamburg.
In the coalition agreement of the governing parties CDU and FDP , which were successful in the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 2009 , it is stated that the Kaltenkirchen location will be examined as part of an air transport concept.
The economics ministers and senators of the federal states of Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein agreed in August 2013 not to pursue the Kaltenkirchen Airport project any further. Instead, the existing airports in northern Germany should work together in the event of capacity bottlenecks.
In July 2017, Jörg Knieling, professor of urban planning and regional development at HafenCity University and Manfred Braasch, regional manager of BUND Hamburg, suggested that the idea of Kaltenkirchen Airport should be re-examined, as air traffic and noise pollution in Hamburg have increased enormously and at the same time due to a relocation large areas could be cleared for the necessary inner-city housing construction.
location
In the 1970s, two parallel runways running roughly in an east-west direction with corresponding buildings for handling and maintenance were planned. They should be in the area between Lentföhrden and Kaltenkirchen in the east and Lutzhorn in the west. The latter municipality should have been given up, as well as other settlements within the development zone and, due to the noise pollution to be expected, in another area around the airport. The traffic connection would have been via the A7 , which borders the planning area directly to the east .
literature
- Helmut Trede: From prison camp to international airport - a chronology of failure, Lentföhrden - Hamburg-Kaltenkirchen, self-published 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-044299-5 .
Web links
- Belly landing in Kaltenkirchen . In: The time . No. 38/1976 , September 10, 1976 ( online [accessed September 27, 2017]).
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the Pro Kaltenkirchen citizens' initiative ( Memento from November 8, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Hamburg: major airport planned in Kaltenkirchen. Die Welt , October 15, 2003, accessed April 14, 2013 .
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from August 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), p. 14 section air traffic
- ↑ North German air traffic concept without Kaltenkirchen Airport , airliners.de, August 27, 2013.
- ↑ Josef Nyary: That became Hamburg's replacement airport in Kaltenkirchen , Abendblatt.de of July 13, 2019.
- ↑ Jens Meyer-Wellmann: How much can Hamburg Airport still grow? , Abendblatt.de of July 18, 2017.