Eudenbach glider airfield
| Eudenbach glider airfield | |
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| Characteristics | |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 300 m (984 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 19 km south-east of Bonn, 41 km south-east of Cologne |
| Street | A3 motorway |
| Local transport | bus |
| Basic data | |
| operator | IG Eudenbach |
| Start-and runway | |
| 09/27 | 950 m × 25 m grass |
The Eudenbach glider airfield (also Eudenbach airfield ) is a glider airfield on the Mußer Heide (also Musser Heide ) near Eudenbach , a district of Königswinter . A smaller part of the airfield in the south-west with the main access is in the area of Aegidienberg or the urban area of Bad Honnef . The border between North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate runs in the eastern part of the airfield . The Rhineland-Palatinate part is close to the villages of Muß and Sauerwiese , which belong to the local community of Buchholz (Westerwald) .
Since a large part of the site is located in the Eudenbach (SU-085) nature reserve named after him, the site has grass runways : an approximately 950 m long runway (orientation 09/27) for powered flight operations and a 200 m runway at each end of the site long runway for glider landings. The site also has two towing lines 1000 m long, which are located on the northern edge of the square.
The airfield was built in the late 1930s as a port of operations for the Air Force . When the heather was cleared in 1936, it had to be at its highest point at 304 m above sea level. NN located Chapel must be laid down. Together with the airfield, a number of accommodation and ammunition stores were built in the vicinity , including the Eudenbach camp (at the airfield), the Musser Heide ammunition store (east of Gratzfeld ) and the two camps in Buchholz and south-west (near Stockhausen ). From 1943 to 1945 a marine vocational school was also operated in the Eudenbach camp . The use as a glider airfield began after the Second World War. In the north-west of the airfield there has been a depot or material warehouse for the Bundeswehr since the mid-1970s , which is to be closed by 2017. In January 2015, the area of the former airfield was placed under monument protection as a ground monument by the LVR Office for Monument Preservation in the Rhineland . The former accommodation and ammunition depots as well as the area around a former railway line also belong to the ensemble of the Eudenbach airport.
Approved as a pure glider flying site, motor machines must obtain an outdoor take-off and landing permit from the regional council in Düsseldorf. The flying group of the Federal Police in St. Augustin regularly conducts helicopter training courses at Eudenbach airfield.
Resident associations
Several aviation clubs are based in Eudenbach :
- Kölner Segelflieger e. V.
- Fliegerfreunde Westerwald e. V.
literature
- Wilbert Fuhr: The Eudenbach (air) port - construction and occupancy from 1936 to 1945 / The 9th and 11th Panzer Divisions - their battle in the Siebengebirge and Westerwald in March 1945. Eudenbach 1998.
- Wilbert Fuhr: The history of the Eudenbach airfield on the Musser Heide. (= Königswinter in past and present. Issue 10), Königswinter 2007, ISBN 978-3-932436-11-6 .
Web links
- Internet presence of the Eudenbach glider airfield
- Cologne glider pilot
- Fliegerfreunde Westerwald
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overnight a ground monument , General-Anzeiger , January 20, 2015