Münster / Osnabrück Airport

Münster / Osnabrück Airport
Characteristics
ICAO code	EDDG
IATA code	FMO
Coordinates	52 ° 8 '5 "  N , 7 ° 41' 5"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 8 '5 "  N , 7 ° 41' 5"  E
Height above MSL	48 m (157  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	25 km north of Münster, 28 km southwest of Osnabrück
Street
Local transport	Bus connections to Osnabrück (X15) Münster (S50, D50, R51) Ibbenbüren (S50) Lengerich (R51)
Basic data
opening	1972
operator	Münster / Osnabrück Airport GmbH
surface	182.5 ha
Terminals	2
Passengers	1,020,302 (2018)
Air freight	67 t (2018)
Flight movements	38,292 (2018)
Capacity ( PAX per year)	about 2.5 million
Employees	approx. 1,600 (2007)
Start-and runway
07/25	2170 m × 45 m asphalt

The Münster / Osnabrück Airport - ICAO code EDDG , IATA airport code FMO , brand name Münster Osnabrück International Airport - is an international commercial airport in North Rhine-Westphalia . The IATA code FMO is also the abbreviation for the official name of Münster / Osnabrück Airport . For this reason, the FMO is often spoken of in the vernacular and in the press. The FMO is each (based on the city center) 7 km northeast of Greven , 25 km north of Münster and 28 km southwest of Osnabrück in the municipality of Greven.

Location and transport links

location

The catchment area of the Münster / Osnabrück Airport, in which more than six million people live, includes the Münsterland, the Tecklenburger Land , the northern Ruhr area , southwest Lower Saxony to the central Emsland as well as parts of the Netherlands , the border region Twente , Achterhoek ( EUREGIO ) and in part also Ostwestfalen-Lippe .

Transport links

The bus routes R51, S50 and D50 from Münster and the airport bus route X15 from Osnabrück connect the two cities with the airport as public transport .

In addition, Münster / Osnabrück Airport can be reached from the federal motorway 1 via junction 75 (Münster-Osnabrück Airport).

Airlines and Destinations

Mainly European holiday destinations are served from Münster / Osnabrück Airport. In Germany, Berlin , Frankfurt , Munich and Stuttgart are served. In addition, the FMO is the operational base of the airline AIS Airlines .

Airport facility

Start-and runway

Aerial view from the east, in the foreground the Dortmund-Ems Canal

After the planning approval procedure from the end of 2004, Münster / Osnabrück Airport was allowed to extend its runway initially to 3000 meters and finally to 3600 meters. The construction project should begin in December 2006 and be completed by the end of 2009. At the end of 2004, the then Environment Minister Bärbel Höhn ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) reported the Eltingmühlenbach in the Steinfurt district as an FFH zone for nature conservation, which slowed down the expansion plans. In addition, against the plan approval procedure u. a. The Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) brought a lawsuit, which was dismissed in July 2006 by the Higher Administrative Court of North Rhine-Westphalia . On the other hand, the Naturschutzbund had enforced an appeal before the Federal Administrative Court , which was referred back to the Higher Administrative Court of Münster in July 2009 because of the decline in passenger numbers. At the end of May 2011, the court in Münster was not convinced of the airport operators' idea of ​​becoming an intercontinental airport with the runway to be extended. The judges therefore argued that the public interest in the expansion did not outweigh the natural area's worth of protection. In November 2011, the FMO and the Naturschutzbund reached an agreement that the runway can now be extended to at least 3000 m if the Eltingmühlenbach is no longer to be moved under the runway, but is directed around it.

The project had already incurred costs of around 19 million euros up to November 2011, the entire expansion stage was originally estimated at around 60 million euros. At the beginning of November 2017 it was announced that this project should no longer be operated because "... the development of air traffic in the recent past and the short and medium-term prospects ... do not show any acute need for the FMO."

Terminals

Münster / Osnabrück Airport has two connected terminals. The check-in counters and arrivals area are on the ground floor. The first floor serves as the departure area, there is also the security check, behind it are the upper gates. Gates A1 to A9, which are on the ground floor of Terminal I, can be reached from there via stairs. The baggage claim area is on the ground floor. There are also restaurants and a few shops on the upper floor, and a freely accessible visitor terrace is on the first floor of Terminal 1.

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  Terminal II at Münster Osnabrück Airport

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  Terminal I + II

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  Hall in Terminal I.

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  Check-in counter in Terminal II

Airportpark FMO

Juniper and sand path in the NSG Hüttruper Heide

The Airportpark FMO is a 200-hectare industrial area for the business associated with the airport, which was designated in 2004 by the cities of Münster and Greven and the Steinfurt district south of the Münster / Osnabrück airport. Since there were no interested parties for almost a decade, the requirements were finally relaxed, so the industry no longer had to be airport-related. It was not until the spring of 2013 that the first major settlement succeeded.

The urban structural concept of the Airport Park FMO takes into account the special needs of the FFH-protected Eltingmühlenbach, but the Hüttruper Heide nature reserve , which lies between this spur road and the Dortmund-Ems Canal, was deliberately devalued in advance of the development for the K1 . Peripheral grassland of the protected area, which had only been created as a buffer zone in the 1990s, was plowed up before the assessment and small bodies of water - so-called blanks with occurrences of the northern crested newt - were filled in. The planning of the FMO Airport Park includes a total of four stages of implementation, the last of which also includes the development of the nature reserve.

Government agencies

• Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH (DFS)
• Main customs office in Münster
• Police station at Greven Airport of the Steinfurt District Police Department
• Flight weather station Münster / Osnabrück of the German Weather Service
• Aviation security office FMO (District Government Münster, Department 26)
• Aviation supervision FMO (District Government Münster, Department 26)
• Federal Police

operator

Shares of the shareholders
Shareholder				proportion of
Stadtwerke Münster GmbH			35.0599%
Steinfurt district			30.2795%
City of Osnabrück			17.1979%
City of Greven			5.8896%
District of Osnabrück			5.0773%
Warendorf district			2.4392%
County of Grafschaft Bentheim			0.4514%
Borken district			0.4514%
Coesfeld district			0.4514%
Emsland district			0.4514%
IHK North Westphalia			0.0677%
HWK Münster			0.0340%
HWK Osnabrück-Emsland			0.0340%
Chamber of Commerce Osnabrück-Emsland			0.0340%
KvK Oost Nederland			0.0340%
Source: fmo.de

Traffic figures

In the 1990s, passenger numbers rose steadily. 2000 was the airport's busiest year with around 1.8 million passengers. Passenger numbers have fallen slightly since 2008, but have fallen significantly since 2011. In 2012 the one million mark was barely reached, in 2013 only around 862,000 passengers were recorded, which corresponds to a decrease of around 16% compared to 2012. In 2014, the number of passengers rose again slightly to 886,186, only to drop again to 815,005 in 2015, and to drop further to 785,000 in 2016. This is the lowest value since the mid-1990s. In 2017, the number of passengers rose by around 23% to 969,700; in 2018, with 1,026,625 passengers, the million mark was exceeded again for the first time since 2012.

Most recently, until its bankruptcy in early 2019, the airline Germania was responsible for a significant part of the flight connections to and from Münster. In the months that followed after its flight operations were discontinued, however, FMO was able to largely compensate for the loss of the corresponding flight volume with connections from other airlines such as Laudamotion and Eurowings . The number of passengers fell slightly in 2019 to 992,553.

Passengers per year
year				Passengers
1980			110,000
1985			135,000
1991			272.254
1992			400,876
1993			544.713
1994			663.027
1995			873.207
1996			987.956
1997			1.06 million
1998			1.21 million
1999			1.60 million
2000			1.80 million
2001			1.60 million
2002			1.50 million
2003			1.50 million
2004			1.50 million
2005			1.50 million
2006			1.55 million
2007			1.60 million
2008			1.58 million
2009			1.39 million
2010			1.33 million
2011			1.32 million
2012			1.03 million
2013			0.86 million
2014			0.89 million
2015			0.82 million
2016			0.79 million
2017			0.97 million
2018			1.03 million
2019			0.99 million

Busiest flight routes from FMO

rank	target	Passengers 2018	change	Passengers 2017	Starts 2018	change	Starts 2017
1	Munich	117.222	▼ -0.25%	117,521	1,570	▲ 7.76%	1,457
2	Palma de Mallorca	104,851	▲ 0.73%	104.092	802	▲ 14.25%	702
3	Antalya	78.174	▲ 23.29%	63,405	487	▲ 22.98%	396
4th	Frankfurt / Main	69,038	▲ 3.8%	66,513	1,293	▼ -0.23%	1,296
5	Hurghada	14,875	Route new	0	106	Route new	0
6th	Las Palmas	12,434	▼ -5.67%	13,181	104	▲ 4%	100
7th	Fuerteventura	12,128	▼ -17.27%	14,660	105	▲ 2.94%	102
8th	Heraklion	8,895	▼ -12.2%	10.131	75	▼ -2.6%	77
9	Istanbul Ataturk	8,825	▼ -21.96%	11.308	80	▼ -33.88%	121
10	Tenerife South	6,473	▲ 8.92%	5,943	60	▲ 13.21%	53
This statistic only includes starts. (No landings)

Busiest routes by country from FMO

rank	target	Passengers 2018	change	Passengers 2017	Starts 2018	change	Starts 2017
1	Germany	193,309	▲ 1.04%	191,312	8,361	▼ -1.35%	8,475
2	Spain	143,660	▼ -2.45%	147.275	1,163	▲ 8.29%	1,074
3	Turkey	108.051	▲ 20.98%	89,315	735	▲ 15.38%	637
4th	Greece	23,852	▼ -2.59%	24,487	192	▲ 2.13%	188
5	Egypt	14,875	▲ 145.22%	6,066	106	▲ 152.38%	42
This statistic only includes starts. (No landings)

history

1954-1970

In 1954 the area was officially approved as a glider flying site. On December 20, 1957, the airfield received approval as a motor landing site operated by the Greven Aviation Association . On December 21, 1966, the cities of Münster , Osnabrück and Greven as well as the districts of Münster and Tecklenburg founded Flughafen Münster / Osnabrück GmbH . Klaus Meyer-Schwickerath , the Oberkreisdirektor of the district of Münster, who held this office until 1974, was elected as the first managing director . The GmbH became the operator of the airfield in early 1968. On September 24, 1968, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia granted the State New Building Office for Airports ( Fritz H. Wolters ) the approval for the first expansion stage. As a result, an apron and a 2000 m long runway were built. The leveling work was carried out during an exercise by the British Army of the Rhine .

1971-1985

After five years of construction, Münster / Osnabrück Airport was officially opened on May 27, 1972. The first charter flight from Münster / Osnabrück Airport to Palma de Mallorca took place in 1973 . The airport fire department received 1973 United Tanklöschfahrzeug of Magirus-Deutz with 12,000 liters of water storage.

The tower was put into operation in 1975 and the aviation authority moved into its premises. The air traffic control and the instrument landing system (ILS) allowed henceforth even safer takeoffs and landings. The declaration of the customs airport was also made in 1975, thus enabling “ duty-free ” as well as freight import and freight export. The runway was extended in 1976 by 170 m to a length of 2,170 m.

The first line connection with jet engines took place at the airport in 1984. Also in 1984 launched British Airways first Berlin flights with BAC 1-11 .

1986-2000

In 1986, Münster / Osnabrück Airport became the 12th member of the group of international airports in the Federal Republic of Germany . Hangar 4 was completed in 1987. In 1989, Münster / Osnabrück Airport was integrated into Lufthansa's night mail network as the tenth commercial airport . In 1990 a new tower went into operation. A 1200 m² cargo hall has been available since autumn 1991. Negotiations to expand the airport runway to 3600 m began in 1994. Terminal I planned by JSK was opened in 1995. On November 26, 1999, the first groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the second terminal took place in the presence of Münster's mayor Berthold Tillmann , Greven's mayor Egon Koling and the district administrator of the Steinfurt district Thomas Kubendorff . The Airportcenter office complex with car park 2, which has 1400 parking spaces, was opened on June 29, 2000.

From November 4, 2000, the FMO offered flights to the Dominican Republic for the first time . LTU set up a triangular route over Munich with Boeing 767 jets. Due to the short runway, the planes at the FMO could not refuel enough kerosene to fly the route directly and had to refuel in Munich. However, for the 2001/02 winter flight schedule, the route was discontinued due to poor profitability.

2001-2010

Terminal II went into operation in 2001. Criticized as being too large, it was identified as a trigger for the airport's financial slump, although the decline in passengers caused by the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and the global economic crisis from 2007 onwards was not foreseeable.

ITH Christoph Westfalen at the University Hospital Münster

The construction of an aircraft maintenance hangar for Air Berlin was completed at the end of 2002, and the intensive-care transport helicopter Christoph Westfalen was put into service by the ADAC and stationed at the FMO. In November 2004 the runway was renewed, which meant that the airport had to be closed for four days.

In 2005, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia brought the planning approval procedure to an end to extend the runway after ten years. Münster / Osnabrück Airport was allowed to extend the runway, but had to comply with strict environmental requirements. The extension from 2170 m to 3600 m was estimated at around 120 million euros. On December 16, 2005, the shareholders' meeting initially decided to extend it to 3000 m. In 2006, the Münster Higher Administrative Court dismissed three lawsuits from environmentalists and also allowed the runway to be expanded to 3,600 m.

The new cargo terminal at the airport was opened in 2007, and LSG Sky Chefs moved into the new catering building in the same year . In the same year, the preparatory work for the access axis of the airport park and the motorway connection began.

The contested decision of the Higher Administrative Court (OVG) Münster of July 13, 2006 was overturned by the Federal Administrative Court (BVerwG) Leipzig in 2009 and referred back to the OVG Münster for renewed hearing.

On November 17, 2010 the motorway connection for the airport park was opened, in May 2011 the construction of the new ADAC air rescue station for "Christoph Westfalen" began.

2011-2016

At the end of May 2011, the planning approval decision to extend the runway was declared illegal, which meant that the expansion plans were temporarily stopped. In November 2011, the FMO and the Naturschutzbund agreed to extend the runway to only 3000 m and to divert the Eltingmühlenbach. On December 12, 2012 it was decided that the airport should receive funds of 9.54 million euros from Stadtwerke Münster over the next five years, which, at the discretion of the airport operator, can also be used for the expansion of the runway.

At the end of September 2013 - after the City Council of Osnabrück had already made a similar decision - the City Council of Münster, as one of the major shareholders, decided on the modalities of a considerable capital increase. Accordingly, a total of more than 27 million euros in three installments are to be made available to the FMO by 2015. The operating company has now caused debts of almost 100 million euros, with losses of 10 million euros in the current financial year and a continual decline in passenger numbers. In 2014, the annual loss was around € 12.85 million.

At the beginning of 2015, after allegations by FMO supervisory board member Thomas Kubendorff , district administrator of the Steinfurt district ( CDU ), there was a crisis of confidence against Gerd Stöwer, the airport's managing director. According to Kubendorff's accusation, Stöwer tried to influence decisions in his favor with formulations that were deliberately kept unclear. The stumbling block was the debt relief concept for the airport, which is heavily indebted with around 90 million euros. The supervisory board representatives of the Steinfurt district, which is the second largest shareholder in the FMO with more than 30%, therefore refused to express their trust in Stöwer.

The shareholders appointed the former manager of the new Berlin airport BER, Rainer Schwarz, as the successor to the departing Stöwer .

Since 2017

In October 2017, the Supervisory Board decided to discontinue the runway extension project. In the same year Air Berlin stopped flight operations. This marked the end of Air Berlin operations at the FMO, after the airline had already significantly reduced its services in the previous years and recently only flew to Palma de Mallorca.

In 2018, for the first time since 2012, the FMO managed to record one million passengers. These resulted from the relocation and route expansion of several airlines, such as B. Germania or Small Planet Airlines. However, the latter stopped operating after a short time. Also in 2018, the Steinfurt district took over the X150 bus between the FMO and Osnabrück; he renamed it with the takeover in X15.

At the beginning of 2019, another airline, Germania , which was responsible for the significant increase in passenger numbers, ceased operations due to insolvency. Germania recently flew to 20 of the 27 FMO destinations. 16 of the 27 connections were lost due to the Germania bankruptcy. In the year before the cessation of operations, in 2018, Germania carried approx. 270,000 passengers from the FMO, which corresponds to around a quarter of the total number of passengers. As his successor, Corendon Airlines switched to FMO with destinations in Turkey, Egypt and Greece .

On the evening of October 14, 2019, a major fire broke out in car park A at the FMO, in which at least 72 of the approximately 600 vehicles in the car park at the time of the fire caught fire on parking levels 1 and 2. 280 firefighters from the entire Steinfurt district brought the fire, which had a temperature of around 1000 ° C, under control, which led to property damage of over one million euros to the vehicles, damage to the parking garage in the same amount and costly renovations to the building. Ten days after the fire, the first of 600 metal supports were erected to statically stabilize the concrete ceilings of the parking levels and to enable tow trucks to drive over them.

Resident carriers

Executive Charter

• BAC (Business-Aircraft-Charter.de), a Citation Mustang operator

Further

• The Hansa Luftbild sensing and photogrammetry GmbH has here several measuring planes stationed for photo flights can be used and flights with other sensors from FMO.
• aerotreff.de flight school at FMO GmbH
• AIS Flight Academy
• ASK Air Service Klausheide GmbH (aeronautical operations)
• Flight school MSR
• TFF flight school
• Air rescue center of the ADAC air rescue (see Christoph Westfalen )

Weather station of the German Weather Service

The German Meteorological Service maintains a weather station at Münster / Osnabrück Airport (station code 10315) that has been recording climate data since October 1, 1989. It is the successor to the station Münster , which until 1990/1991 at the Zoo of the city of Münster was at home, and is situated at a height of 47.8  m above sea level. NN . The highest measured temperature was 40.0 ° Celsius on July 25, 2019. The lowest value was recorded on January 2, 1997 at minus 21.5 ° Celsius.

Web links

Commons : Münster / Osnabrück Airport  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Münster Osnabrück Airport  - Travel Guide

• Airport homepage (German, English, Dutch)
• Homepage of the Airportpark FMO
• Westphalia regional: Development of the FMO
• Website of the sports flight center Münster-Osnabrück
• Article in Westfälische Nachrichten about the planned rail link to the airport

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} AIP Germany . S. AD 2 EDDG 1-1 ( online [accessed on November 2, 2015] last corrections: AIP correction 11/15 (corrected on October 15, 2015), AIRAC AIP correction 09/15 (effective date: October 15, 2015)) . online ( Memento from January 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b c} ADV statistics. ADV.de, June 2, 2019, accessed on June 2, 2019 (German). 
3. ↑ Münster / Osnabrück Airport: Figures / Data / Facts
4. ↑ https://www.fmo.de/buchen-fliegen/streckennetz/
5. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung : Agreement on FMO expansion: Airport and Nabu: 3000 meters are coming - Bach will be relocated , Greven / Münster, Elmar Ries, December 8, 2011.
6. ^ ^{A b} Westfälische Nachrichten : Negotiations for 17 years: Discussion about the future of the FMO , Münster, Jennifer von Glahn, October 13, 2011
7. ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : [1] , Greven / Münster, Elmar Ries, November 4, 2017
8. ↑ Münster / Osnabrück Airport: Terminal plan
9. ↑ Airportpark FMO: Urban structural concept: AirportPark FMO ( Memento from March 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 5.2 MB), Annex 3 of the public law agreement on municipal cooperation regarding the AirportPark FMO
10. ↑ Münster / Osnabrück Airport: Shareholder
11. ↑ ^{a b} Münstersche Zeitung : FMO takes stock: Münster / Osnabrück Airport had a hard time this year - and is hoping for 2013 , Münsterland, Michael Hagel, December 8, 2012.
12. ↑ Figures for 2013 - 16 percent fewer passengers at FMO , Cities: Greven, December 30, 2013.
13. ↑ 12.2014 ADV monthly statistics ( Memento from February 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
14. ↑ 12.2015 ADV monthly statistics ( Memento from February 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
15. ↑ Elmar Ries: 2017 will be a fateful year for the FMO . In: Westfälische Nachrichten . ( wn.de [accessed on May 10, 2019]).
16. ↑ Münster / Osnabrück Airport (FMO) starts 2018 successfully , hasepost.de, April 4, 2018, accessed on January 14, 2018.
17. ↑ Good news of the day: A successful year for FMO Airport , hasepost.de, January 11, 2019, accessed on January 14, 2019.
18. ↑ FMO can compensate flight cancellation through Germania. In: WDR. April 25, 2019, accessed May 24, 2019 . 
19. ↑ Münster / Osnabrück Airport - passenger volume up to 2018 | Statistics. Retrieved May 10, 2019 . 
20. ↑ An interim report on the occasion of the general meeting of the Federal Association against Aircraft Noise (BVF) on March 22 , 2014 In: bi-greven-fmo.de , accessed on February 7, 2019 (PDF; 268 kB)
21. ↑ 23% more passengers in 2017. FMO.de, January 8, 2018, accessed on February 5, 2019 . 
22. ↑ Almost 1 million passengers in 2019. Accessed January 6, 2020 . 
23. ^ ^{A b} Publication - Transport & Traffic - Air traffic at major airports - Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). Retrieved on March 28, 2019 (German). 
24. ↑ Münster / Osnabrück Airport. Accessed May 10, 2019 . 
25. ↑ Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung of November 27, 1999: "Groundbreaking for the new departure hall at the FMO."
26. ↑ In Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from June 30, 2000: "Airport with new parking and office complex"
27. ↑ Niko Oertel: From the FMO to the Caribbean . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung . November 6, 2000, p. 3 .
28. ^ Off for flights from FMO to overseas LTU is canceled. In: noz.de. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , April 10, 2001, accessed on June 11, 2020 . 
29. ↑ ADAC Air Rescue is moving to the airport park at FMO , Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , Franz-Josef Raders, April 15, 2011
30. ^ Münstersche Zeitung : More money for the FMO , Münster / Politik, Münster, ueb, December 14, 2012
31. ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : Fresh money for the FMO , Münster, Klaus Baumeister & Elmar Ries, September 27, 2013
32. ↑ https://www.bundesanzeiger.de/ Annual financial statements for the financial year from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014
33. ^ Rainer Schwarz becomes the airport manager in Münster. Retrieved May 10, 2019 . 
34. ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : [2] , Greven / Münster, Elmar Ries, November 4, 2017
35. ↑ Elmar Ries: FMO closes further gaps in Germania. Retrieved August 13, 2019 . 
36. ^ Fire at Münster / Osnabrück Airport. In: ndr.de. October 15, 2019, accessed October 15, 2019 . 
37. ^ ^{A b} Westfälische Nachrichten : A parking deck full of junk: clearing up the day after the major fire at Münster / Osnabrück Airport , Westphalia, Greven, Peter Beckmann, October 16, 2019
38. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : FMO: No reference to arson , Westphalia, Greven, er, October 18, 2019
39. ↑ ^{a b} Westfälische Nachrichten : Searching for clues in the column forest: After the fire in the FMO parking garage , Westphalia, Greven, Peter Beckmann, Gunnar A. Pier, October 25, 2019
40. ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : Parking garage fire: Million damage , Westfalen, Nachrichten, Münster, October 19, 2019
41. ↑ ^{a b} Station Münster / Osnabrück ( memento from 23 September 2015 in the Internet Archive ) of the DWD.
42. ↑ Overview of the stations with freely available values ​​from the DWD
43. ↑ Climate diagram for Münster on the website of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster
44. ↑ July 2019 heat wave in Western Europe - new national record in Germany , DWD .
45. ↑ Absolute lowest temperatures in Germany ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).