Old Airport (Hannover)

Aerial view over part of the industrial park with the buildings of the conveyor belts and flat belt manufacturer Forbo Siegling on Lilienthalstrasse

Wide-angle shot from the street Alter Flughafen in Vahrenheide , in the background a former airport building, later the district army replacement office of the Bundeswehr

Around 1917: aerial photography (oblique aerial view ) from the airfield atlas

Alter Flughafen is the name of a commercial area in place of a former airport and a street in Hanover that connects Vahrenwalder Strasse with Kugelfangtrift in the Vahrenheide district .

History and description

Already in the early days of the German Empire and in the late 19th century, a large part of the old heath area north of Vahrenwald , the Vahrenwalder Heide , was used by military units as a parade ground.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Karl Jatho made his first flight attempts here.

Shortly before the First World War , the Vahrenwalder Heide was converted into a flight and airship area in 1912 .

After the former Evershorst military airfield was expanded into an airport suitable for public transport according to plans by Friedrich Wilhelm Petzel in the post-war period , the architect Felix zur Nedden converted a former aircraft hangar into the first terminal building of the new Hanover Airport .

A little later, did not want to Nedden together with Ulrich Zelinsky , the urban concept implemented for the development of the historic airport grounds where the two architects after 1958 first street age Airport was created, could create the industrial park age Airport to own plans for the following year 1959th

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  Former pilot station on the Vahrenwalder Heide with a mounted biplane ; Collotype ; Colored postcard no.665 of the North German paper industry , around 1914

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  On the grounds of the Hauptfeldwebel-Lagenstein barracks you can still find the same building as on the left - one of two preserved buildings on the bullet trap from the time of the first airport

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  View through Lilienthalstrasse

literature

• Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Old Airport 2A , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (Ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 77
• Wolfgang Leonhardt : Airfield / Airport in Hanover-Vahrenwald , in ders .: List, Vahrenwald, Vinnhorst. Three districts of Hanover with history (s). Books on Demand , Norderstedt 2012, ISBN 978-3-8448-7810-3 , pp. 160ff .; Preview over google books

Web links

Commons : Old Airport  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Waldemar R. Röhrbein : 1959 , in: Hannover Chronik , p. 247ff .; here: p. 248
2. ^ ^{A b} Helmut Zimmermann : Alter Flughafen , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 12
3. ↑ ^{a b} Wolfgang Neß : Vahrenheide , in: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover (DTBD), part 1, volume 10.1, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 197
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Alter Flughafen 2A , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 77
5. ↑ Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Flughafenstraße (Lgh) , in Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 11

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 58.1 ″  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 9.7 ″  E