Transport and infrastructure to film in Germany
35 of them, 22 with a photo and 8 with practical details the location publishes itself. 1 have a documented shooting history. Every entry links to the location or to the body that manages it.
Stations, airports, ports, bridges, tunnels, metro lines and rolling stock, including disused stretches that can be closed off for a shoot.
Shooting in Germany pays back through the DFFF I / DFFF II / GMPF (30%): work out the net value on your own spend in the incentive comparison.
Alter Elbtunnel
Transport & infrastructure
Tiled road and foot tunnel of 1911 under the Elbe with two long tubes, domed entrance halls and vehicle lifts, managed by the Hamburg Port Authority.
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Bahnpark Augsburg
Transport & infrastructure
Former Deutsche Bahn depot in Augsburg with track fan, roundhouse, steam locomotive shed, forge, old bunkers and historic rolling stock including a mail coach.
1,350 sq m of listed halls plus 10,000 sq m open ground, 9.4 m hall height, drive in access, 40 parking spaces, 16 A and 32 A outlets
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Bayerisches Eisenbahnmuseum
Transport & infrastructure
A former steam locomotive depot at Nordlingen with a working roundhouse, turntable and yard of preserved steam and diesel engines.
Cap San Diego
Transport & infrastructure
Seagoing general cargo ship of 1961 moored at the Ueberseebruecke in Hamburg, with bridge, engine room, holds, cabins and decks kept in working order.
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Duesseldorf Airport
Transport & infrastructure
International airport with check in halls, piers, gates, an airside apron and a rail station under the terminal, offering the usual range of travel interiors.
Flughafen Leipzig/Halle
Transport & infrastructure
An intercontinental airport between Leipzig and Halle, expanded around 2000 with a central terminal combining a railway station, multi storey car park and passenger check-in in one complex.
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Frankfurt-Hahn Airport
Transport & infrastructure
Former airbase in the Hunsrueck now used for cargo and charter flights, with a quiet terminal, long runway, aprons and hangars away from built up areas.
Hamburg Airport
Transport & infrastructure
City airport with two terminals, check in rows, gates, baggage areas and an apron, plus a rail station beneath the plaza between the terminals.
Hauptbahnhof Frankfurt
Transport & infrastructure
Frankfurt's main station, Germany's second busiest long-distance rail hub, with a broad historicist concourse building where travellers from many routes cross paths.
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Hauptbahnhof Leipzig
Transport & infrastructure
Leipzig's main station, with a nearly 300 metre long concourse building and a six-vault steel platform hall, built with a strong symmetrical layout on both sides of the tracks.
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Kap Arkona
Transport & infrastructure
Northern tip of Rügen with two historic lighthouses, a former Cold War radar bunker and a reconstructed Slavic hillfort on chalk and boulder-clay cliffs above the Baltic.
Kiel Hauptbahnhof
Transport & infrastructure
Terminus station in Kiel with a glazed train shed over dead end platforms, a concourse of 1899 and the harbour and ferry berths a short walk away.
LWL-Museum Schiffshebewerk Henrichenburg
Transport & infrastructure
Boat lift of 1899 on the Dortmund-Ems Canal with towers, machine house, old canal basin and moored inland vessels, run as a museum site of the LWL.
Munich Airport
Transport & infrastructure
Airport opened in 1992 with two terminals and a satellite pier, 120 aircraft stands, five multi storey car parks and the covered MAC forum of 10,000 sq m used for shoots and events.
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MVG Museum
Transport & infrastructure
Listed former tram workshop hall of over 5,000 sq m in Munich Ramersdorf, holding 25 historic trams, buses and works vehicles from several periods plus a small cinema room.
40 parking spaces beside the hall, further spaces can be hired, power up to 130 kW
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Naval Memorial Laboe
Transport & infrastructure
A tall brick naval memorial tower overlooking the Kiel fjord, with a preserved World War Two submarine open to visitors alongside it.
Osthafenbruecke
Transport & infrastructure
A road bridge linking Frankfurt's Ostend and Sachsenhausen districts across the river Main, with an open view over the city's skyline, managed by the city of Frankfurt.
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Skywalk Willingen
Transport & infrastructure
A 665-metre pedestrian suspension bridge about 100 metres above ground, running beside the Muehlenkopfschanze ski jump where the annual World Cup ski jumping event is held.
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Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof
Transport & infrastructure
Stuttgart's main railway station, a 1920s stone terminus building with a tower, currently being converted into an underground through-station as part of the Stuttgart 21 project.
Technik Museum Speyer
Transport & infrastructure
Transport museum in Speyer with a former aircraft hall, a jumbo jet and a Buran shuttle outdoors, plus locomotives, submarine interiors and vintage vehicles.
Tempelhof Airport
Transport & infrastructure
Former Berlin city airport with a terminal building over a kilometre long, vast disused hangars and a 300-hectare former airfield now a public park, hired for filming, events and trade fairs.
Seen in: Bridge of Spies (2015), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (2015)
The open apron area covers about 25 hectares, described on the site as the largest open-air space within a city in the world. Halls have ceiling...
U-Bahnhof Westfriedhof
Transport & infrastructure
Munich underground station opened in 1998 under Orpheusstrasse in Moosach, lit by eleven dome lamps of 3.8 metres by Ingo Maurer that wash the platform in blue, red and yellow.
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Albrecht Duerer Airport Nuremberg
Transport & infrastructure
Bavaria's second airport, running around the clock with two departure halls, one arrivals hall, three multi storey car parks and open views onto the apron from the parking decks.
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bayernhafen Nuremberg
Transport & infrastructure
Inland freight port and logistics centre on the Main Danube Canal covering 337 hectares, with harbour basins, gantry cranes, a container terminal and about 260 companies on site.
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Container Terminal Halle (Saale)
Transport & infrastructure
A working inland freight terminal on the Saale river in Halle, with rail and road links, a harbour basin, quayside, tracks, weighing and loading equipment across a large industrial site.
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Eisenbahnmuseum Bochum-Dahlhausen
Transport & infrastructure
A preserved steam-era railway depot with a roundhouse, turntable, workshops and sidings of historic locomotives and carriages.
Flughafen Berlin-Gatow
Transport & infrastructure
A former military airfield on the western edge of Berlin, now the Bundeswehr's air force museum, with a control tower, runway and hangars holding historic aircraft.
Flughafen Dresden International
Transport & infrastructure
Dresden's airport, with a terminal built in 2001 in a glazed contemporary industrial style and Saxony's first underground S-Bahn station in its lower level.
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Hotelrestaurantschiff Mainod
Transport & infrastructure
A 1959-built, 55-metre former passenger ship permanently moored on the river Main at Frankfurt-Hoechst, now a restaurant ship with an Art Deco main deck and a floating terrace.
Capacity: 120
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Parkhaus Domplatz Erfurt
Transport & infrastructure
A multi storey car park cut into Erfurt's medieval old town next to the cathedral and Petersberg citadel, with a glazed exit leading straight onto the Domplatz.
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Pressnitztalbahn (Museumsbahn Steinbach-Joehstadt)
Transport & infrastructure
A narrow gauge heritage railway opened in 1892 running about eight kilometres between Steinbach and Joehstadt in the Erzgebirge, with restored locomotives and carriages from the 1960s to 1980s.
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Schiffshebewerk Rothensee
Transport & infrastructure
A 1938 ship lift on the Mittelland Canal north of Magdeburg, an engineering monument that connected canal traffic to the Elbe until 2001.
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Schwaebische Waldbahn
Transport & infrastructure
Heritage railway between Schorndorf and Welzheim in the Swabian Forest, with steam worked branch line trains, small country stations, viaducts and a tunnel.
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Seebrücke Sellin
Transport & infrastructure
Pleasure pier of the Baltic resort of Sellin on Rügen, a rebuilt wooden and steel structure reaching out over the sea with a restaurant at its end.
Stations of the Harzer Schmalspurbahnen
Transport & infrastructure
43 stations along the steam-hauled Harzquerbahn, Selketalbahn and Brockenbahn narrow-gauge network across the Harz mountains, many with buildings from the turn of the 20th century.
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