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Munich
International
Airport
The
Franz
Joseph
Strauss,
or Munich,
International
Airport
served 29
million
passengers
in 2005,
making it
Germany’s
second-busiest
airport.
The
airport
serves the
Bayern
(Bavaria)
region of
southeastern
Germany,
and is a
hub for
the
Lufthansa
airline.
Like other
large
international
airports,
the
facility
occupies
portions
of
multiple
municipalities
including
Freising,
Oberding,
Hallbergmoos,
and
Marzling.
During the
construction
of this
airport,
the
village of
Franzheim
was
demolished,
and its
500
residents
relocated.
The
airport
lies 31
kilometers,
or about
19 miles,
to the
northeast
of Munich.
Rather
than being
an
extension
of the
metropolis,
the
airport is
surrounded
by
agricultural
fields and
small
towns. The
agricultural
fields in
active use
appear in
various
shades of
green,
while the
exposed
soils of
fallow
fields
appear
brown to
tan.
Roadways
around the
airport
appear as
thin,
intersecting
lines. The
white
concrete
airport
runways
are 4
kilometers,
or about
2.5 miles,
in length.
At bottom
center,
the
magnified
shadows of
clouds
hang over
the scene.
The
airport
grew in
2003 with
the
addition
of
Terminal
2,
designed
specifically
to
accommodate
the needs
of
Lufthansa
and its
partner
airlines.
This
photograph,
taken from
the
International
Space
Station,
was
acquired
May 12,
2006 and
shows
enough
detail to
distinguish
individual
airplanes
on the
terminal
apron
(inset;
white
rectangle
marks
location
on main
image),
and the
dark
gray-blue
rooftop of
Terminal
2.
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