an Airbus Services company and world leader in the commercial aerospace aftermarket announced the opening of its new Logistics & Service Centre in Hamburg Located in the Wilhelmsburg area of Hamburg this 56,500 m² facility is the largest warehouse within Airbus Group to date representing a significant expansion of Satair's global footprint The centre will primarily manage Tools and large parts (Long Term Storage and Kits).  This new facility is Satair’s second in Hamburg complementing the existing Service & Logistics Centre in Fuhlsbüttel managing small and medium sized parts these centres operate under an integrated warehouse solution creating a comprehensive logistics network across both locations our new facility complements our existing operations in Hamburg aiming for enhanced customer satisfaction while also ensuring company growth This expansion significantly enhances our ability to serve customers across Europe while also reinforcing our global service reach." Satair plans to further expand the capabilities of the Wilhelmsburg facility by adding in-house carpentry for customised shipping solutions and introducing tool repair services These enhancements will strengthen Satair's commitment to providing comprehensive end-to-end solutions for its customers worldwide An die 4.000 Zwergfledermäuse verbringen den Winter in der Ulmer Wilhelmsburg Ein Experte hat sie gezählt - ganz behutsam dass sie in eine Streichholzschachtel passt: die Zwergfledermaus Die größte Kolonie in Süddeutschland schläft gerade in der Ulmer Wilhelmsburg Dass dort von Oktober bis April Tausende der geschützten Tiere Winterschlaf halten weil Fledermausexperte Dirk Häckel sie zählt - im Auftrag der Stadt Ulm Der Lichtkegel von Dirk Häckels Taschenlampe wandert durch verlassene Gänge Funktionskleidung schützt den Wissenschaftler vor der Februarkälte Hier und da bleibt der Fledermausexperte stehen lässt das Licht über abgeblätterte Türen oder Ritzen im Mauerwerk gleiten wie viele in der Burg überwintern: "Früher haben wir die Fledermäuse hauptsächlich in diesen Strukturen gezählt: In den Türen gab es Fledermäuse selbst in den Rohren." Heute allerdings schlafen die Tiere überwiegend in Fledermauskästen Häckel leuchtet von unten die Wand hinauf - in einen hölzernen Kasten mit einer Front aus gehärteter Holzwolle und einem schmalen Schlitz Einer von vielen Fledermauskästen aus Holz und aus Stein die der Fledermausexperte in enger Absprache mit der Stadt an den Burgmauern angebracht hat braunen Fellkopf mit samtig-schwarzen Segelohren und einer feucht glänzenden Schnauze Die schlafende Zwergfledermaus hat es sich in dem zweieinhalb Zentimeter engen Kasten gemütlich gemacht: "Das ist unsere kleinste heimische Fledermausart erklärt der freiberufliche Fledermausexperte Zwergfledermäuse gehören zu den leichtesten und kleinsten Säugetieren der Welt In Deutschland sind sie über das Bundesnaturschutzgesetz streng geschützt dass sie in eine Streichholzschachtel passen Bei der nächtlichen Nahrungssuche haben sie gemeinsam mit anderen Fledermausarten den Luftraum fast für sich allein Mithilfe von Ultraschall erfassen sie ihre Umgebung und merken sie sich in Form einer präzisen 3D-Landkarte Im Spätsommer schwärmen die Zwergfledermäuse aus Dann beginnen sie auch mit der Balz und teilweise mit der Paarung kommen bei Zwergfledermäusen häufig Zwillingsgeburten vor Zwischen Oktober und April hält die Zwergfledermaus Winterschlaf Das Winterquartier muss wetterfest und frostfrei sein Vor dem Winterschlaf fressen sich die Tiere eine Fettschicht an Bei der Winterruhe dürfen sie nicht gestört werden - zu viel Energieverbrauch kann für die Tiere tödlich enden Nur ganz kurz leuchtet Häckel in den Fledermauskasten um die ungefähre Zahl der dicht aneinander gekuschelten Tiere zu erfassen Zählen muss sie der Experte dennoch - zur Kontrolle An die 4.000 Zwergfledermäuse hat der Geoökologe in diesem Winter gezählt So viele wie nirgendwo sonst in Süddeutschland Auch einige Zweifarb- und Breitflügelfledermäuse schlummern in der Festung Alle Fledermausarten stehen mittlerweile unter Naturschutz - nachdem sie in den 1970-er Jahren als fast ausgestorben galten dass die Wilhelmsburg über die Jahre zum Fledermaushotspot geworden ist sagt Baubürgermeister Tim von Winning (parteilos) So habe man den kompletten Nordflügel der Burg aus der Nutzung herausgehalten Die Fledermäuse scheint das wenig zu stören - immer mehr Tiere überwintern in der alten Bundesfestung dessen ist sich Fledermausexperte Dirk Häckel sicher: "Wenn das Quartier super ist mit der Temperatur und sie können gut Energie sparen 2024The skaters on the AriZona team skate one of the most iconic and treasured natural transitions in the world in episode 6 of the Sky High Skrilla series "Richie Löffler invited German rap sensation Kwam.E to perform at the new Mantis Skate Shop Word hit the streets hard and Hamburg took over Große Theaterstraße 42 for real with 500+ people in attendance Kwam.E’s presence on stage truly mesmerized the crowd and Caroline It was an amazing night in Hamburg!"—Josh Zickert By Blair Alley is the Content Director for TransWorld SKATEboarding Tests of a geothermal project in Wilhelmsburg 48-degree Celsius thermal water can be extracted from a depth of over 1,300 metres The first households in Wilhelmsburg will be supplied with heat from spring 2025 The geothermal plant is expect to supply over 6,000 households with climate-friendly heat in the long term The local heating networks "Energiebunker" and "Energieverbund Wilhelmsburg-Mitte" are to be merged and expanded by the new geothermal plant creating a large district heating network Construction of the furnace is due to start next spring The completed plant will have a geothermal heat output of around six megawatts thermal water will be pumped from a depth of over 1,300 metres and fed into the water circuit to supply more than 4,700 households To increase the thermal energy and the capacity to over 6,000 households an efficient heat pump system will reach the respective temperature depending on the season The German Ministry of Economics is putting EUR 22.5 million in funds towards the geothermal project which is being carried out as part of the real laboratory IW3 to supply the suburb of Wilhelmsburg with CO2-free heat in future News Julie Chamberlain and the cover of her new book Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban and Inner-City Studies Racialized Residents on Urban Development and Social Mix Planning in a Hamburg Neighbourhood The book is one of the first of its kind to address the racialization of a German urban area Chamberlain’s history with the neighbourhood of Wilhelmsburg dates back to 2011 when she travelled to Hamburg on a graduate study tour Wilhelmsburg received international attention for its intensive re-planning and development through IBA Hamburg a German architecture and planning structure “The impetus for this research was a statement I heard from a local urban planner when I first visited Hamburg,” said Dr “The statement was: ‘to solve the problems facing the island neighbourhood of Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg its population would have to be transformed.’” Determined to challenge this unsettling notion Chamberlain took the opportunity to focus her research on exploring who the population was imagined to be and how the public’s perception of Wilhelmsburg could be transformed through the perspectives of its racialized residents The PhD research quickly caught the attention of Transcript a German academic publisher of cultural and social studies scholarship in German and English Chamberlain’s research into a book that contributes to the international scholarly debate and knowledge on the experiences of racialized residents in German neighbourhoods Chamberlain also mentions that the statement made by the local urban planner is not an uncommon view among some German residents “Black and People of Colour scholars and activists have argued for years for more attention to the experiences of racialized people and how racism shapes structures and everyday life in urban centres in Germany,” said Dr This book contributes to scholarly and activist conversations closing the gap of research into how racial capitalism has shaped urban development how racism is integrated into social mix policy and the complex ways that city residents navigate and resist racialization to make welcoming neighbourhoods this book paints a picture of the place that is more nuanced and complex than the dominant story that was told about it for many years,” said Dr “It captures a moment in time in a gentrification process that is well underway but not complete.” If you would like to purchase Wilhelmsburg is our home! Racialized Residents on Urban Development and Social Mix Planning in Hamburg Neighbourhood, you can do so on the Transcript Publishing website and other bookseller websites Inspired by the classic Wilhelmsburg Banks Skatepark located south of Hamburg is this brand new Trap Vans Half Cab Pro collaboration With the park in danger of being closed and demolished forever The Vans Half Cab features a Deep Burnt suede overlay with an ankle collar done in an Orange motif paying homage to the well-known mosaic quarter pipe wall Wilhelmsburg Banks in Hamburg Finishing off the look is a Black special edition Half Cab woven labels and White foxing the Trap x Vans Half Cab Pro “Save Wilhelmsburg Banks” released today in-store only at Supreme LA A wider release will take place on June 10th SBD provides millions of monthly visitors with sneaker updates on Jordan Sneaker Bar Detroit has quickly become one of the top sneaker sources on the web Advertise With Us || Email: info[at]sneakerbardetroit.com and some unreal spots have been discovered and documented We've crafted this list of some of the most surreal and exclusive: Some are once-in-a-lifetime opportunities Malaysia/Thailand SundialsSussed out by the likes of world travelers Patrik Wallner Southeast Asia is known for having more than one of these skateable gems Check out Patrik and Mark chopping it up regarding one in Malaysia The famous sundial in Thailand can be seen in this video featuring Cody Lockwood: Anyone ever hit this one? Josh Zickert front rocking in Thailand Josh Zickert made this one famous in Natural Koncept's Creepin' For Life video It's still sitting there in Downtown LA and it's still sketchy as all hell We don't recommend trying to get a clip on it.  Peep JZ's ender in Creepin' For Life: TaiwanThe fabled golden shell right on the beach of the South China Sea This is actually a very expensive art sculpture that the local authorities guard vigilantly A session on this could hurt your bank account sits this fun whoop-dee-doo-hickey that can be skated as a quarterpipe or a kicker No real bust factor—have some fun with a big crew You've likely seen footage and photos of this sculpture smack dab in the middle of the City of Light It appears tailor-made to skate—shout out to the designing artist Charles Daudelin despite the disdainful look you might get from some art snob locs Pop out at Saint Germain des Pres on the 4 line for a look You've probably seen teams and American pros hitting this incredible spot for years The locals of Hamburg actually rallied together to save it from demolition Be sure to visit Mantis Skateshop if you're in town downhill pump-bump sculpture sits in Australia's capital city Peep some clips of it in And Now and a photo from a Cliché trip Down Under years ago you need legendary Bay Area skater/photographer Bryce Kanights' blessing and directions to get to A trip here will surely net you an epic photo Louie Barletta fakie flipping at ten o'clock and it's got that hairy flat gap you gotta jump to get to it Bob Burnquist on our April 2003 cover if you've got the pin and you know the working hours of the maintenance crew at this spot you can get a several-hour session on a massive plaza full of unbelievable tile transition JJ Colon gets up there at golden hour.  New YorkNext time you're in New York City see if you can get a few hits on the transition spot nestled inside Columbia University.  Chile SculptureA must-hit spot if you're lucky enough to make it to the skate wonderland of Chile.  Josh Zickert going high frontside in Chile This complex of 33 dwellings is the result of two successive negotiation processes The first responds to a competition organized by the International Building Exhibition (IBA) of Hamburg in 2008 and is part of an urban development for the Wilhelmsburg neighborhood The urban project involves a contemporary reinterpretation of the terrasse a traditional row-house typology of Hamburg’s working class The second addresses a participatory process that includes the future residents Under the premise of producing a new sustainable urban system special emphasis goes to the individual dwelling the definition and prioritization of public and collective spaces The blocks are made to face each other along a central street reduced in size to limit the impact of traffic and create a green The studied treatment of the green zones makes it possible to create natural borders between private and collective spaces The U configuration of the blocks accentuates the sense of intimacy along the routes optimizing the connection with the park and creating a feeling of seclusion the project presents three spaces for socialization each representing a different form thereof: one is public along the facade to the street; the other is both collective and private in the courtyards; and the third are the individual terraces Each of the four built blocks accommodates 6-10 apartments besides storage rooms and facilities for baugruppen activities (meetings There are two different typologies: row houses and stacked apartments the 20 attached dwellings (120-160 m²) each have three stories and terraces facing the street and the patio they are flats or duplexes and have direct access to a garden through a terrace or gallery The composition of the facades varies in accordance with their location a series of long narrow windows establishes a constant rhythm while facing the patios are large openings that give views and bring sunlight into the homes The compositional variation extends to the wooden cladding with the slats varying in both direction and size and to the color of the window frames and shutters Agence Franck Boutté (sostenibilidad HEQ consultant); BASE (paisajismo landscaping) there arent any match using your search terms There is a lot of public and political pressure to make the energy transition a success Germany is a country that faces this pressure too further augmented by a strong reduction in gas supplies from Russia in recent months and the related need to urgently diversify the energy mix it is disappointing to see that a flagship geothermal exploration drilled in the north of Germany in the city of Hamburg has not delivered what many people had hoped for See also: Hamburg – not as hot as expected The Hamburg geothermal project aimed at producing 10 MW from a 130°C reservoir With a lot of promotional work carried out to inform the public about what was going on in the Wilhelmsburg area of Hamburg the project received a lot of attention as the well was being drilled The Hamburg geothermal project aimed at a reservoir of Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic age (Rhaetian sandstone) at a depth of more than 3 km The target was reached – albeit 300 m shallower than foreseen – and core was cut subsequent analysis revealed that the rock’s flow properties were of insufficient quality to warrant drilling another well Targeting the Rhaetian sandstone in the area should not be regarded as an outright mistake though; the reservoir is known for its good quality in other parts of northern Germany when plotting the location of the well on a recently published map showing the sedimentary architecture of the Triassic reservoir in the area it is clear that the well was not drilled in an optimal location (see map above) Constrained by several wells drilled in the area in the past the conceptual model suggests that the deltaic sandstones are shaling out in the direction of where the well was drilled Even when one takes into account that this map remains a conceptual representation of the actual subsurface setting and will always need revision with more wells being drilled the fact that it was published before the well was spudded still sparks the question of why it was drilled at the chosen site Source headline image Henk KombrinkHenk.Kombrink@geoexpro.com+44 77 8899 2374 Sales DirectorIngvild Ryggen CarstensSales Enquiries+47 974 69 090 02-28-2014IMPACT the “Energy Bunker’s” 10-foot-thick concrete walls are now ideal for clean energy creation and storage BY Ben Schiller The enormous air raid bunker in Wilhelmsburg it sheltered 30,000 Hamburg residents a night as Allied bombs fell and men shot from “flak towers” on the roof it’s a bunker of a different sort–one to store energy And its role isn’t so much to fend against incoming fire as to protect against grid failure Opened last year, the Energy Bunker is an example of the infrastructure Germany is using as it shifts towards more renewable sources of power The building contains a half-million-gallon water tank that stores heat from a solar thermal plant a unit that burns wood chips and recycles waste heat from a nearby industrial plant A combined heat and power system burns biogas to produce more heat And a south-facing solar array produces yet more power The bunker supplies enough heat for 3,000 homes as part of a local heating network don’t generate heat in their homes as most of us do Their homes therefore waste far less energy than is typical Though the Bunker is connected to the main power grid it’s effectively a “virtual power plant” that combines several smaller That offers a buffer to the mainstream grid and flexibility to managers who can decide on the best mix of heat energy and electricity (if the sun isn’t shining The bunker itself normally supplies enough electricity for about 1,000 homes The Bunker is part of a wider project in Wilhelmsburg to go 100% carbon neutral by 2050 Engineers are now looking at integrating wind farms from Northern Germany That will allow the grid to store more energy when winds are blowing hard saving reserves for when the weather is less co-operative British experts almost demolished the Bunker as they tried to put a permanent end to German war capacity they only got as far as destroying six of the eight floors inside The 10-foot-thick concrete walls are now ideal for their purpose The final deadline for Fast Company’s Brands That Matter Awards is Friday, May 30, at 11:59 p.m. PT. Apply today. Ben Schiller is a New York staff writer for Fast Company. Previously, he edited a European management magazine and was a reporter in San Francisco, Prague, and Brussels. More Fast Company & Inc © 2025 Mansueto Ventures Fastcompany.com adheres to NewsGuard’s nine standards of credibility and transparency. Learn More Recent urban planning and redevelopment in the neighbourhood of Wilhelmsburg is based on the idea of ‘social mixing,’ a controversial planning idea that disadvantages poor and racialized people (people who are considered to be non-German based on their names This research used mixed qualitative methods to learn about what racialized long-time residents of Wilhelmsburg think about recent developments and to learn how they figure into local planning It found that residents see their neighbourhood very differently from its outside image and that they welcome redevelopment as well as worry about its impact on the neighbourhood’s most vulnerable population Hamburg is generally considered an open and cosmopolitan city but it has a long history of racism and colonialism The neighbourhood of Wilhelmsburg has had a ‘bad reputation’ for many years—as residents put it—because it was largely an immigrant and working-class neighbourhood and was planned as a location for the city’s industry and waste The city’s main approach to problem-solving in the neighbourhood is ‘mixing’ the population based on class and race This is a popular idea in German urban planning and is troubling because it depends upon legal discrimination that values some people over others This research shines a spotlight on the perspectives of racialized residents of the changing neighbourhood and treats their perspectives as valuable and important Black German and German People of Colour scholars have been calling for this kind of anti-racist research for a long time where the realities of discrimination and racism have been a taboo subject until recently This research draws attention to racial discrimination in urban planning and contributes to anti-racist advocacy I conducted interviews with racialized residents who had lived in Wilhelmsburg for more than ten years and with politicians and planners who worked in the neighbourhood participating in local life and planning-related events and studying the local historical and government archives I held a community event to discuss my initial findings Racialized residents deeply valued Wilhelmsburg and challenged the planning narrative that treats diversity as a problem They reported that the neighbourhood welcomes everyone especially people who otherwise faced intense discrimination in Germany Many participants called Wilhelmsburg Heimat which is a uniquely German term for belonging and identifying with a place Residents were hopeful but worried about what current developments will bring over time and had mixed feelings about whether changes were really meant to benefit them middle-class Germans have been attracted to the neighbourhood and that there are new cafés and shops This has changed Wilhelmsburg’s image in a positive way finding housing as a racialized person has become more difficult This is consistent with social mix planning which treats racialized people as displaceable in the name of neighbourhood improvement Yet the residents I spoke to argued that social mix planning could challenge the racism of white middle-class Germans who have fled and avoided the neighbourhood in the past Residents hoped that that current developments would improve local infrastructure but not change the beauty and character of Wilhelmsburg too much The study can support critical reflection for urban planners and politicians to reconsider their practices and assumptions It can inform resident activism and organizing as well as future urban research in Hamburg and beyond ChamberlainJ@brandonu.ca Julie Chamberlain is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at Brandon University Editor: Christiane Ramsey Research at Brandon University follows comprehensive policies designed to safeguard ethics to protect human and animal welfare and to prevent conflicts of interest The German company IBA Hamburg has opened the world’s first building run on algae biomass The International Building Exhibition IBA Hamburg 2013 BIQ project is now ready with the first façade elements installed and all trial runs successfully completed saw the most spectacular event in Wilhelmsburg Central in which the building’s green microalgae flowed into its glass facades The BIQ (Bio Intelligent Quotient) is a cubic five-storey Passive House with façades in two different designs is the result of an IBA architectural competition which was won by a design by the SPLITTERWERK team from Graz The buildings technical design and bioreactor façade were jointly implemented by Arup Deutschland GmbH The opening ceremony was formally conducted by IBA Hamburg and the investors Otto Wulff Bauunternehmung and SSC Strategic Science Consult cutting-edge project reveals how residential construction can also be green architecture in a literal sense The BIQ is the first building in the world to have a bioreactor façade as part of an integrated renewable energy concept we are now opening the second experimental building as part of the IBA Hamburg  the  BIQ” said  Stefan Wulff Managing Director of Otto Wulff Bauunternehmungen “This underlines the facts that we stand for innovative building and believe in the future viability of Wilhelmsburg as a residential location.” glass elements that generate biomass and heat The building is one of the Smart Material House model projects forming part of IBA Hamburg’s Building Exhibition which demonstrate new and intelligent construction materials used in buildings and façades “The microalgae give the building its own unique energy and aesthetic look help to keep the apartments within the building shaded and supply heating and biomass that can be recycled” said the Director of IBA  “The project sends out an important message for construction in times of climate change.” On the south-west and south-east sides of the building the façade has a second outer shell positioned in front of it which is the bioreactor façade It is here that the microalgae are cultivated for the purposes of generating energy and for light control and the provision of shade for the block The continuous growth of the algae and the rising gas bubbles mean that the façade is in constant flux The sun’s radiation also generates thermal energy in the building’s water-filled glass elements The algae used this sunlight to create biomass through photosynthesis and the heat is provided to the building through a heat exchanger The biomass is used for energy purposes elsewhere “The bioreactor façade can only begin to operate when the algae are introduced at which point it can be valued in terms of performance and visual appeal” said Dr Martin Kerner Managing Director of SSC Strategic Science Consult “In contrast to the algae façades facing southwards the north-west and north-east sides have a luminous Spacious balconies overlooking the future Island Park and IBA Hamburg building provide all 15 rented apartments with high-quality access to the open air Future residents there  families with children or couples will be able to experience the bioreactor façade at close quarters.” A total of four model residences have been built on the edge of the park site in Wilhelmsburg Central for the International Garden Show in 2013 The intention is that they should be objects for discussion and observation long after they have been completed establishing a new building typology in the process The three companies involved in the project have been working on this joint project since November 2010 The project was funded by the Building The Future research initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Transport Its purpose was to create a façade system that would make it possible to control the use of the bioreactor façade on the building The result was the development of a fully operational reactor that can be installed as a façade element IBA Hamburg Otto Wulff Bauunternehmung SSC Strategic Science Consult The districts of HafenCity and Wilhelmsburg in Hamburg Formerly a rundown warehouse district and a dock area respectively, the two neighborhoods are being remade into modern environmentally responsible mixed-use developments Areas of the port city are prone to flooding so construction is made to be resilient to water intrusion An innovative landscaping system was created where every building’s first floor is uninhabited Offices and businesses are allowed on ground floors Buildings are equipped with metal doors that close during floods The strategy is to give the water space to flow instead of trying to stop it with dikes The Wilhelmsburg development includes wind turbines and solar panels that provide electricity for 4,000 homes HafenCity buildings feature rooftop PVs and one has a wind turbine < Back to insights hub TWG currently consists of 22 tanks with a total storage capacity of circa 74,000 cubic metres located in the port of Hamburg It offers services for the storage and handling of mineral oils and biogenic liquids among other 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Industry news and insights from Europe and around the World Keep up-to-date with the latest new products and technology GERMANY: A 6MW geothermal heat pump system capable of supplying over 6,000 households is set to be installed in the Wilhelmsburg district of Hamburg.  In an expansion of the current Wilhelmsburg heating network operated by Hamburger Energiewerke construction of a heating plant at the geothermal energy site is scheduled to start in spring 2024 with connection to the network in spring 2025 The project team has installed special filter pipes in the production borehole over the past few months and carried out production tests during which thermal water was successfully pumped from a depth of over 1,300m at a temperature of 48ºC in which the extracted thermal water is returned to the 130m thick sandstone layer via a second borehole According to a study by Germany’s Federal Environment Agency deep geothermal energy could contribute 118TWh per year to climate-neutral heat supply by 2050. A total of 42 deep geothermal systems – defined as systems with a drilling depth of over 400m and an average depth of 2,500m – have been implemented in Germany with an installed heat output of 417MW.  Cooling Post is the leading online resource covering latest news and developments in the cooling industry air conditioning news and the latest heat pump developments Privacy & Cookie Policy © Copyright 2025, Cooling Post Ltd - All Rights Reserved | Website by Capital Web "It's still surreal for me to be a little boy from Wilhelmsburg (a district of Hamburg) playing for the biggest club in the world," said Alfa-Ruprecht. He completed his first training session at Einigkeit Wilhelmsburg where the foundations of his career were laid "My mother didn't know what we needed for training we quickly went to a shop and bought some jogging pants and a T-shirt My uncle also gave me some used football boots." Alfa-Ruprecht describes himself as a child raised on grass pitches and a street footballer at heart In addition to the classic strengths such as ball control and speed his style of play is characterised by remarkable creativity which in turn is reflected in his dribbling skills and spatial awareness "I grew up with the football pitch mentality and have internalised it If you spend most of your free time in a football cage or on the pitch you learn basic characteristics such as assertiveness stamina and courage,” said the young star “It's about getting up again after losing a duel or defeat in the game and carrying on Street football also promotes purely technical skills You learn how to use tricks to prevail against bigger and stronger players in a confined space There was only ever one goal for Alfa-Ruprecht - being on the football pitch from whom he was able to get an autograph at a final youth team barbecue "We play in the same position and I liked his style of football straight away," remembers Alfa-Ruprecht Alfa-Ruprecht played for the German club for five years and during this time he also had to cope with the first setback of his young career I contracted pubic bone inflammation and was out for almost eight months,” recalls the German youth international I received an incredible amount of support from the club my family and especially from the physiotherapists "I didn't know if I would ever be able to become a professional footballer or return to the pitch." After his injury Alfa-Ruprecht got himself back in to good shape and attracted interest from Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich he decided to move to Man City in September 2022 "Since my father lives in England and I wanted to go to him only an English club came into question for me,” said Alfa-Ruprecht “When I saw the City training complex for the first time it is a great privilege and an honour at the same time to be able to play for Manchester City.” The young talent has been part of Man City's U21 team since the summer of 2024 and has quickly developed into a key player and leader. In the first five league games, the German youth international scored four times and in his first game in the UEFA Youth League he scored a brace against Inter Milan Alfa-Ruprecht maintains a close contact with the German youth director Thomas Krücken After every game we talk about the situations that went well and the ones that went badly He calls me ‘Rabbit’ because of my speed It makes me incredibly proud that I have someone with absolute expertise behind me who believes in me and my abilities," says Alfa-Ruprecht Although the 18-year-old has been playing for City for three years now he is still impressed by the Sky Blues' training complex: "I was actually a little overwhelmed at first Everything is timed down to the smallest detail If a training session is supposed to last 60 minutes you have video analysts or nutritionists at your side sometimes I miss eating a packet of Toffifee or Knoppers in the evening But I'm happy to forgo that for the dream of professional football," explains the young German talent with a smile Details that you would never even think of," says Alfa-Ruprecht English football has had a positive impact on Alfa-Ruprecht in many ways as it has enabled him to better focus his attention Additional sessions have so far ensured that he has been able to improve in many areas in particular it is absolutely natural to use my free time effectively and sensibly but generally it is more important to me to use the time to develop my skills I want to become more unpredictable for the opponent in the game and I can only do that if I do more and go the extra mile," said the young City star who hopes to be able to take the next step soon and play in the Premier League for the first time Sie haben erfolgreich Ihre Einwilligung in die Nutzung von Transfermarkt mit Tracking und Cookies widerrufen Sie können sich jetzt zwischen dem Contentpass-Abo und der Nutzung mit personalisierter Werbung Eine Kugel für umme: Damit lockt der Eis-Hersteller „Ben & Jerry’s“ am Dienstag nach Wilhelmsburg Der „Cucco Kiosk“ macht beim „Free Cone Day“ mit und verteilt die teure Süßigkeit des US-Unternehmens gratis veranstaltet „Ben & Jerry’s“ seit 1979 an seinem Stammsitz im US-Bundesstaat Vermont Seit 2000 gibt es die PR-Aktion in Läden auf der ganzen Welt Und dieses Jahr ist der „Cucco Kiosk“ in der Straße Vogelhüttendeich 57 Am Dienstag von 13 bis 19 Uhr gibt es dort eine Kugel Eis umsonst Das könnte Sie auch interessieren: Endlich Sonne! 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Keep always informedSubscribe to @Intelsky 💫 pic.twitter.com/KUNck1XfVO Mikl-Leitner stressed that the situation remained critical in lower Austria with around 25,000 emergency personnel deployed The governor and Fire Service Commander Dietmar Fahrafellner didn't have specific numbers but Austrian media said there were reports of around 1,100 properties evacuated Authorities have warned the public not to make any non-essential journeys and warned people  against putting themselves and rescue teams at risk just to take photos of the flood waters Roads remained severely affected on Monday Although water levels in Vienna's rivers have slightly dropped the capital remains severely affected by the storms with Wiener Linien wasn't expecting full operations to resume until Wednesday Vienna Mayor Michael Ludwig warned of a "second wave" of rain and flooding expected on Monday power outages continued in parts of Penzing with restoration efforts complicated by ongoing severe weather The danger of further flooding remains high across the country compounded by rising temperatures in the mountains which are accelerating snowmelt and increasing water flow into already flooded areas From South Tyrol through Austria to Lake Constance, with lots of snow in the middle.🗻🏔🗻Von Südtirol durch Österreich bis zum Bodensee, mit viel Schnee mittendrin. pic.twitter.com/vnFQTYrAFC emergency services are working non-stop to pump out water READ ALSO: 'Unprecedented situation': Austria hit by torrential rain and floods Meteorologists forecast that the situation would remain volatile until Wednesday Lower Austria had already seen ten dam failures and further reinforcements were deployed to stabilise vulnerable areas The Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) extended its travel warning until Thursday Authorities were on high alert for more rainfall and the potential for additional flooding as the week progresses Residents across Austria were advised to monitor updates and follow official guidance Please log in here to leave a comment