Hardly any planes due to Corona: a bird chirping instead of aircraft noise in the Frankfurt

In Frankfurt-Niederrad will be re-told. Bird males sniffing around the female Bird. So loud that Marlis servant-Stang sometimes irritated holds. She has not perceived the chirping of birds already for a long time. Usually, the noise will be drowned out in the residential settlement on the edge of the forest from the noise of the planes. Since the runway to the North-West due to the massive decline in air traffic in the Corona-time is temporarily shut down, it became quiet in Niederrad. At least from the top. "I enjoy that very much. It is a dream,“ says servant-Stang. "But I also know that there is no turn-in of policy or economy, which has led. I know that many suffer from this development.“

Marie Lisa Kehler

Deputy Department head of the Regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

by Daniel Schleidt

editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

The seventy-two year old lives in the middle of the lane in an apartment under the roof. If you are sitting on your balcony, listening to the aircraft, usually before you see them. It is a dull hum and Thunder. She often has the feeling that the planes, gliding over her belly, stroking it. Her is scary. Since the 21. In October 2011, the Opening of the runway to the North-West, to the remains of her bedroom window at night. Too loud it is when in the morning to 5 o'clock, the first plane in for a landing mix. "It is a Surrender."

For many people in the Rhine-Main Region, the Corona has a pandemic of also something Good brought the rest:. Servant-Stang has for the first time, slept for years with the window open. What sounds like a fundamental right, is for many residents of neighbouring communities of the airport is a rarity, because machines in minutes, thundering over their homes.

With the East wind the thunder of the aircraft, according to the garden

Ludger Schader opens the door to his terrace. He has set the edge of the stones on his lawn recently, he says, he is thinking about a swimming Pool. The sky is blue, the sun is shining – it is those days are loves, the Schader, actually, but the mean at the same time, one for him: noise. In about 230 meters in height, the machines on the roof of Schader and his family of four to fly normally. The Wind comes from the East, that is when the weather is nice most of the time, then fly over areas of the end planes, especially the West of the airport residential, including the 20,000 residents of the city of Flörsheim. However, because of the travel restrictions in the Corona, with the crisis in the North-West is used as a Parking lot for aircraft. Schader stands in the open door to the garden and look up. "It is a blessing." A well-Known running past the dirt track next door, and greets. You would not hear aircraft noise at all.

Marlis servant-sitting Stang is exactly why sometimes long on your balcony and listen to the strange noises that you heard in a long time. Children laughing from the garden next door, the music from the neighboring apartment, a lawn mower, somewhere three roads. "I experience everything suddenly much more intense," she says. The apartment she lives in, she bought it in 1997 with her now deceased husband. Because of the noise not away, the comes for you in question. Too many memories connect with the own four walls. It has also been found in the district of home and friends. Also due to the commitment in the citizens ' initiative against the Expansion of the airport.