DFS workshop hall
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| place | Darmstadt |
| Construction year | 1930s |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 51 '28.8 " N , 8 ° 35' 36.1" E |
The DFS workshop hall is a building in Darmstadt .
Architecture and history
In 1926, the German Research Institute for Gliding (DFS) moved to Darmstadt. In the mid-1930s, DFS established itself at the August Euler airfield . Its director was Professor Walter Georgii . DFS built several workshops , hangars and a wind tunnel on the airfield site .
One of the buildings from this era worth preserving is the white wooden hall built in the 1930s. The hall was built in the style typical of the time. The hall has three aisles , with the actual research and model building hall in the middle, with a raised roof and a flatter workshop and office wing on each of the two long sides. It consists of a wooden structure . The outer walls are boarded horizontally with wooden boards . The hall is accessed via a large gate on the south side. The two side workshop areas have large lattice windows .
The white workshop hall was built in the 1930s by the DFS Department of Delta - Nurflügelflugzeuge of Alexander Lippisch used. The research and construction of tailless delta flying wing aircraft was one of the main research areas of DFS. Lippisch's developments became the basis for the construction of the Messerschmitt Me 163 rocket aircraft .
In the years 1949 to 2008 the hall belonged to the American troop newspaper The Stars and Stripes .
Monument protection
For architectural and local historical reasons, the striking building is a cultural monument .
literature
- Günter Fries et al .: City of Darmstadt. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse .) Vieweg, Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , p. 541.