Airport metro station

Mosaic by Toni Burghart

Platform level with daylight

The airport subway station (abbreviation: FL ) was opened as the 39th  subway station of the Nuremberg subway on November 27, 1999, making Nuremberg the only city in Germany since the closure of Tempelhof Airport in Berlin whose airport with the U -Bahn can be reached. It is 2388 m from the Ziegelstein underground station and is the terminus of the U2 line. The distance between the Ziegelstein and Flughafen subway stations is the largest in the Nuremberg subway network. It is used by around 7,200 passengers every day.

Location and infrastructure

Map of the subway station. Airport

The station extends in an east-west direction north of Flughafenstrasse in front of the airport terminal building . It has three direct entrances to the surface, which are located at Terminals Departures 1 and 2 and Arrivals. An elevator at each platform head connects the platform level with the surface. The underground station has no turning tracks, so you have to turn around briefly at the platform .

Building and architecture

The station structure is 230 m long, 15 m wide and 9 m deep (simple depth). The construction work for this began on September 2, 1996 and was carried out in the open construction method with Berlin shoring . Access to the terminals was maintained with auxiliary bridges over the station structure.

The station design is based on the terminal and is characterized by the use of aluminum and steel elements. A four-part mosaic of a plane taking off or landing , designed by the Nuremberg artist Toni Burghart , is attached to each platform wall .

There are five large, rectangular openings in the station ceiling that allow daylight to fall onto the platform. The entire area above the underground station is spanned by an approx. 5000 m² glass roof.

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  Entrances to the surface

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  View of the platform level.

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  South rise to the surface

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  Single escalator

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  DT3 at the end of the U2

Lines

line	course
	Röthenbach - Hohe Marter - Schweinau - St. Leonhard - Rothenburger Straße - Plärrer - Opera House - Central Station - Wöhrder Wiese - Rathenauplatz - Rennweg - Schoppershof - Nordostbahnhof - Herrnhütte - Ziegelstein - Airport

Transfer options

line	course
	Nordostbahnhof - Herrnhütte - Nordostpark - Ziegelstein - Airport - Am Wegfeld - Buch - Boxdorf - Erlangen Süd - Gebbertstraße - Neuer Markt - Arcaden - Erlangen Bahnhof - Hugenottenplatz
	Airport - Lohe - Almoshof - Buch - Höfles - Ronhof - Fürth Town Hall - Fürth Central Station
	Main station - Rathenauplatz - town hall - Maxfeld - Kleinreuth hdV - Lohe - airport

Others

Bilingual station name

Scenes for the music video Forever by the trance formation Dee Dee were filmed in the subway station . The recordings were produced by AVA Studios in Nuremberg under the direction of Alexander Diezinger .

The airport underground station is the only one in the Nuremberg underground network with a station name on the rear walls of the track in two languages ​​( airport and airport ).

literature

• City of Nuremberg / Building Department (Ed.): U-Bahn Nuremberg 15 . Press and Information Office of the City of Nuremberg, Nuremberg 1999.
• Michael Schedel: Nuremberg U-Bahn Album . Robert Schwandl Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-936573-11-5 .

Web links

Commons : Airport Metro Station  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Local area map on the sides of the VGN (PDF; 91.36 KB)
• Station description on local traffic Franconia (private)
• Station pictures on cityverkehr.de (private)

Individual evidence

1. ^ VAG Nürnberg (Ed.): Ten years of "U2 and fly" ( Memento of the original dated February 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Press release from November 27, 2009 
2. ↑ Overview: These are the most used underground stations in Nuremberg on nordbayern.de, from December 27, 2019, accessed on January 6, 2020
3. ↑ Music video for Forever

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