In Nuremberg is it no new ICE plant give. As the Deutsche Bahn announced on Thursday (April 13, 2023) that the “location search” was now “completed”. The conclusion: in the region “there is no locationswhich are suitable for a new ICE plant.” Last was the so-called MUNA terrain Moist, the former army ammunition facility, in conversation. But without success: Deutsche Bahn now has it Out for the 400 million euro project announced.
The basis for this decision is Results of the spatial planning procedure through the government of Middle Franconia as well as the balance sheet exploratory investigations of Deutsche Bahn on the MUNA site in Feucht. Since autumn 2020, the train has been “short 100 possible locations for a new one ICE plant in the Nuremberg area examined”. Three locations had been included in a spatial planning procedure with the government of Middle Franconia.
New ICE plant in Nuremberg blown off – Bahn explains the reasons
“In February, the authority only rated the Location MUNA Moist evaluated, the areas Allersberg and MUNA Süd were eliminated”, explains the Deutsche Bahn. However, it is now clear: “The MUNA Feucht location also offers an ecologically valuable and protected area no prospects of success for a building permit for a new maintenance workshop.”
only one “urgent need for refurbishment” as well as the following one “Ordnance Clearance” could have reversed the decision – but Deutsche Bahn examined the site intensively: “As a result, there is no need for rehabilitation”. Thus separates the MUNA-Glände, on which in and after the 2nd World War Ammunition produced, stored and defused was finally decided for the 400 million euro project.
The DB Group representative for the Free State of Bavaria, Klaus-Dieter Josel, says: “Unfortunately, the framework conditions offer us no prospect of a successful construction of the plant in the Nuremberg railway region. We simply don’t have a suitable location for our plant many hundreds of high-quality industrial jobs. We very much regret that”, says Josel and thanks for the support of the project.
No “obvious alternatives”: ICE plant canceled
“Our search for a location in the Nuremberg area was very thorough,” says Carsten Burmeister, the project manager at DB Fernverkehr: “The government of Middle Franconia has also confirmed that in the region no brownfield sites or other obvious alternatives exist. Unfortunately, after more than two years of intensive work, my team and I have no choice but to Discontinue planning for an ICE plant in the Nuremberg area.”
2023 will be one record yearwhat the access of new trains concerns, explains Deutsche Bahn. “On average three a month.” In order to maintain, repair and clean the “many new trains, the Capacities also expanded in maintenance “That’s why new works for trains are currently being built in Cottbus and Dortmund, among other places, and others are being expanded. “After a ICE plant in the Nuremberg region is eliminatedthe DB is now checking for this alternative options.”
