Kattwyk

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Kattwyk is the peninsula in the center of the picture

Kattwyk or Kattwyk Peninsula , sometimes also imprecise Kattwyk Island is a peninsula on the Elbe island Hohe Schaar in Hamburg - Wilhelmsburg and today part of the Port of Hamburg .

The Kattwyk Bridge , which connects the Hohe Schaar with Moorburg at the southern end of the peninsula, is named after her . There is also the Kattwykhafen south of the peninsula .

Today the BLG car terminal of the BLG Logistics Group is located on the Kattwyk peninsula , a central transshipment point for new and used vehicles to Asia, America and Europe.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franklin Kopitzsch , Daniel Tilgner (ed.): Hamburg Lexikon. 3rd, updated edition. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-8319-0179-1 , p. 266.
  2. ↑ a b The island of cars in the port of Hamburg, Hamburger Abendblatt, 29 August 2014

Coordinates: 53 ° 30 '31.1 "  N , 9 ° 56'43"  E