Barth Airport
Stralsund-Barth Baltic Sea Airport |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | EDBH |
| IATA code | BBH |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 7 m (23 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 25 km west of Stralsund |
| Street |
 L 23
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| Basic data | |
| opening | 1936 |
| operator | Ostseeflughafen Stralsund-Barth GmbH |
| Terminals | 1 |
| Passengers | 21,000 (2013) |
| Flight movements |
5,051 (starts) (2016) |
| Start-and runway | |
| 09/27 | 1685 m × 30 m asphalt |
The airfield is a commercial airport in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen and is located in the districts of Barth and Divitz-Spoldershagen . It is approved for aircraft up to 5.7 t (higher MTOM per PPR ) and for both VFR and IFR . Since February 2017, IFR operations have been restricted by NOTAM (only during the day).
The operating company Ostseeflughafen Stralsund-Barth GmbH , in which the district of Vorpommern-Rügen, the city of Barth and the city of Stralsund are represented, uses the name Ostseeflughafen Stralsund-Barth for the airport.
Transport links
The airfield can be reached by bus from Barth and Stralsund .
The airfield can be reached by motor vehicle via Bundesstraße 105 and then via Landesstraße 23 towards Barth.
history
The construction of the square as used Horst the Air Force began in 1935, including seven hangars were built in the 1940s was added a fortified runway. The first occupation took place in July 1936 by the III./KG 152 , in 1937 parts of the training squadron 1 were added. During the Second World War , the II. And III. Were here in autumn / winter 1939/1940. Group of the Kampfgeschwader 30 set up. From 1942 onwards, Heinkel AG used some of the existing halls as an alternative location to replace the plant in Rostock that was damaged in bombing raids. From 1943, forced laborers were also used for aircraft production. Among other things, the "Volksjäger" He 162 was built . In 1944/1945 several Allied air raids took place . On May 2, 1945, the place was occupied by units of the Red Army and during the course of the year it was used by Soviet fighter pilot units (including the 309th fighter pilot division). Shortly after the end of the war, during a multi-day operation (Operation "Revival") from May 12, 1945, over 9,000 Western Allied airmen from the Stalag Luft I camp located to the north were flown over from Barth to their home countries by converted bombers of the Eighth Air Force . In 1947, the dismantling of the factory machines and infrastructure began and their shipment to the Soviet Union, the production buildings and halls were blown up. In the following years the area was only used as a practice shooting range.
From June 15, 1957, the area was again used for flying by Lufthansa , later by Interflug of the GDR. To this end, the damaged runway was repaired and some buildings, including a tower, a small shipyard and a handling barracks were erected. Barth served as a domestic airport until 1975 and was served by twin-engined aircraft of the type IL-14 and An-24 . From 1961, the civil airlines shared the space with the NVA , which carried out the parachute jump training of the 5th paratrooper battalion , later the 40th air storm regiment . Other units were the Kampfschwimmerkommando-18 and the Marinehubschraubergeschwader 18 , which Barth used as an alternate airfield.
On October 1, 1975, due to a resolution by the Council of Ministers, passenger aviation (air traffic) was discontinued and the airfield was only used as an agricultural airfield by Interflug. Another reason that should not be underestimated is the elimination of the An-24 from Interflug . There was no corresponding substitute for these aircraft types. The airfield achieved the highest handling figures in 1971, 2984 aircraft with 79315 passengers were handled, plus 84.8 tons of cargo.
On September 27, 1990, the airfield was re-approved as an airport. On July 1, 1991, the operating company Ostseeflughafen Stralsund-Barth GmbH was founded. In 1994 the airfield received approach lights and since 1995 a non-precision approach procedure RNAV (GPS) has been available in landing direction 27.
A new terminal building with a tower was built at the airport by 2011. The existing buildings from the 1950s were partially demolished in the summer of 2010. An investment grant of 2.7 million euros was granted by the state for the project. The modernized terminal opened on May 25, 2012.
Solar park
To the north of the runway, the airport provides areas for the use of photovoltaics. BayWa re renewable energy has been developing ground- mounted photovoltaic systems there since 2012 . Thanks to the lease income, the airport gets by without subsidies . At the end of 2019, the Barth III to VI solar parks were sold to an Encavis fund. The network operator responsible is E.DIS .
- Solar park Barth I - 31.5 MW p , 2012
- Solar park Barth II - 8.2 MW p , 2013
- Solar park Barth III - 9.9 MW p , 2017
- Solar park Barth IV - 9.2 MW p , 2019
- Solar park Barth V - 8.8 MW p , 2019, first solar park without EEG subsidies in Germany
- Solar park Barth VI - 750 kW p , 2019
See also
literature
- Stefan Büttner: Red places: Russian military airfields in Germany 1945-1994 . Aerolit, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-935525-11-4 .
- Thomas Bussmann: Reinforced concrete, grass and railway lights - the airfields used by the military in the GDR . MediaScript, Cottbus, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814822-0-1 .
- Michael Rossow: Approach Barth… - On the history of the Baltic Sea airport from 1935 until today . Redieck & Schade, Rostock 2015, ISBN 978-3-942673-56-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tax money for the airport next door. FOES.de , March 2017, accessed on February 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Air traffic on all airports. Destatis.de , accessed on February 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Stralsund-Barth Airport
- ↑ "Stralsund-Barth Baltic Sea Airport inaugurates new terminal" (official website)
- ↑ Anika Wenning: Solar park is being expanded. In: Ostsee-Zeitung . February 6, 2019, accessed May 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Baywa re sells first subsidy-free solar park in Germany to Encavis. In: pv-magazine.de. Retrieved December 17, 2019 .
