Felixstowe

51.9633333333331.3513888888889Koordinaten: 51 ° 58 ' N, 1 ° 21 ' E

Felixstowe is a location on the mouth of the rivers Stour and Orwell in the North Sea British port city in the region Suffolk, England. The container port of Felixstowe is the largest of its kind in the UK. With 29 349 inhabitants ( 2001) Felixstowe is the largest city in the district of Suffolk Coastal.

The place was in the 7th century may bishopric and was already before the Norman conquest of England in 1066. During the 11th century Roger Bigod founded in Felixstowe a priory, dedicated to St. Felix.

The village consisted of Felixstowe to the 19th century only a few houses. In the second half of the 19th century, however, the site experienced a strong population increase. The Felixstowe under the auspices of a local landowner, Colonel George Tomline, founded Railway and Pier Company began in 1875 with the construction of a seaport in Felixstowe and a railway line from Ipswich / Westerfield to Felixstowe. The railway line was opened in 1877 and was transferred in 1879 to the much larger railway company Great Eastern Railway. The 1879 renamed in Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company Port operators could open in 1886 the first dock of the Port. At the same time Felixstowe became a popular resort, favored by a mild, dry climate and the convenient railway connections to London. 1905 was built a pier for tourist purposes, similar to other British coastal towns. It still exists today, but it is not since the 1990s due to its poor structural condition to the public. Tourism played until the late 1930 years an important role in Felixstowe, but then went back gradually. Twinning existed since 1972 between Felixstowe and Wesel on the Lower Rhine, and since 1994 between Felixstowe and Salzwedel. Salzwedel maintains its part twinned with Wesel.

In World War Felixstowe was the site of a department of the British reconnaissance aircraft naval aviator. A flying boat developed here gave the city its name Felixstowe.

Port of Felixstowe

The 1886 opened port Felixstowe in particular greatly expanded in the 1960s. A pioneering development was shaped in 1966 was the start of construction of a terminal for transshipment of containers and swap bodies. This so-called " Landguard Container Terminal " was opened on 1 July 1967 and provided the foundation for the expansion of the Port of Felixstowe to the largest container port in Britain. A second, larger container terminal, "Trinity Terminal", was built in 1972. Today container annually, totaling more than three million TEUs can be handled.

The A14 trunk road ( 204 km leads to the motorway intersection M1 / M6 ( " Catthorpe Interchange " ) near Rugby) and the railway line are good transport links on the land side. Three of the four operating in the UK rail freight companies, EWS, Freightliner and GB Railfreight, driving the harbor several times a day. Owner of the entire harbor since 1991 (75%) and 1994 (100 %) the Hutchison Whampoa Group of Hong Kong.

Biology

The area around Felixstowe is just over 500 mm of precipitation per year, the driest in Britain. On the beach, a special vegetation has developed, which exists in similar form in Japan and New Zealand. The dunes are covered with mosses, lichens, dill and brambles, the littoral with Sea Kale ( Crambe True, Crambe maritima ), a cabbage plants with high vitamin C content and asparagus -like flavor.

Sons and daughters of the town

Felix of Burgundy DB Schenker Rail (UK) Freightliner Group John Bridgeman (sculptor)
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