German Gliding Museum
The German Glider Museum with model flight is a museum on the Hessian Wasserkuppe .
History and description
The German Glider Museum with model flight was built in 1987 and expanded in 2006. With around 4,000 m² of exhibition space, it is the largest museum of its kind. The museum operates its own workshop in the basement of the museum, in which aircraft are restored for the exhibition.
In the highest mountain in the Rhön located museum history, including the aviation pioneers, and the development of gliding shown from simple Lilienthal - gliders to modern plastic glider .
In the area of model flying , which has a long tradition on the Wasserkuppe, numerous exhibits are also on display.
Exhibits
Until 1918
- Lilienthal Derwitzer glider , 1891, replica
- Lilienthal normal sailing apparatus , 1894, replica
- Lilienthal standard double-decker, 1895, replica
- FSVX "Darmstadt", 1911, replica
1918 to 1945
- FVA-2 "Blue Mouse", 1920, replica
- Pelzner hang glider, 1920/21, replica
- HAWA H 1 "Vampyr" , 1921 replica
- Schulz FS3 "Broomstick Box" , 1922, replica
- RRG “Hol's der Teufel”, 1923/27, replica
- RRG rocket duck , 1927/28, replica
- Grunau 9 , ESG 29, 1929, replica
- Laubenthal "Musterle" H2 PL, D-Musterle, 1929, replica
- RRG "Falke", HB-16, 1931
- Green Post, D-7110, 1932/33, replica
- Rhön buzzard "Hesselberg", D-1137, 1932
- Schleicher " Rhönadler ", D-Günther Groenhoff, 1932/34, replica
- Grunau Baby IIa , D-1079, 1932/33
- H 17, D-1012, 1934
- DFS "Rhönsperber" , D-Rhönsperber / D-6262, 1934
- Göppingen Gö 1 "Wolf" , D-15-2, 1935
- DFS "Kranich II" , D-8-11 / D-6260, 1936
- Göppingen Gö-3 "Minimoa" , HB-282, 1935/36
- Akaflieg Munich Mü 13 d1 , D-6293, 1936/38
- Reiher III , D-7033, 1937/38, replica
- DFS Weihe 50 , D-5862, 1938/51 (built after the war by Utva Pancevo, Yugoslavia, under license from Fock Wulf)
- School glider SG 38 , 1938
- Rhineland FVA-10-B, BGA-1711, 1938
- Grunau "Baby III" , D-4303, 1943/52
- Wolf Hirth Gö-4 III , D-1084, 1943
- Olympia titmouse
From 1945
- Lo 100 , D-3556, 1952
- BS 1 , D-9389, 1962/63
- Darmstadt D-36 "Circe", V 2 D-4686, 1962/64
- Lom 59 "Lo-Meise", DM-2223, 1959
- Disk "Zugvogel III", D-5855, 1961
- Schneider ES 49, D-5069, 1949
- Disk Mü 13 E "Bergfalke", OE-0138, 1950
- School double-seater "Doppelraab V" , D-4389, 1951
- Dittmar "Condor IV" two-seater, D-Condor / D-1092, 1951
- Kaiser Ka 1 , D-1231, 1952
- Focke-Wulf "Kranich III" , D-1398, 1952
- Schleicher Ka 3, D-6254, 1953
- Disk "Specht", D-1624, 1953
- Greif Flugzeugbau "Greif I", D-6223, 1953
- Schleicher "Rhönlerche II" , D-7125, 1953
- Motorraab, D-KALP, 1954
- HKS 1 , D-5555, 1954
- Disk "L-Spatz 55" , LX-CB-X, 1954
- Akaflieg Darmstadt D34c "B-phrodite", D-4644, 1955
- Disk Bergfalke II / 55 , D-9041, 1955
- Ka 6 BR , D-4339, 1956/57
- Pützer Horten Ho 33 V1 , D-EGOL conversion to V1, D-5332, 1956
- Bölkow fs-24 "Phönix T0" , D-8353, 1957/60
- Lom 58 II "Libelle Laminar" , D-2668, 1958
- Schleicher K 8 B , D-4454, 1957/58
- Gomolzig ( Grunau Baby ) Baby V, D-7346, 1959
- Lommatzsch FES 530 "Teacher II" , DM-3308, 1959
- Obermeier "Illerfalke", D-KLOP, 1960
- Lommatzsch Lom 61 "Favorit" , DM-2704, 1961
- Obermeier SF 27 MB V1 "Illerschwalbe", D-KANE, 1966
- Akaflieg Braunschweig SB 5 , D-6300, 1959/1968
- Phoebus CW , D-0559, 1970
- Rolladen Schneider LSD Ornith , D-0740, 1970
- Schleicher AS (ASW) 12 , D-4311, 1965
- Basten B4 , D-7201, 1966
- Roller shutter Schneider LS 1 V1 , D-4723, 1967
- Clublibelle 205 , D-9469, 1974, previous owner Bernd Ewald
- Kuffner WK-1, D-KWEK, 1975
- ULF VJ 23H, D-NGFZ, 1982
- Watzlawek, M 76, D-KWAT, 1997
See also
literature
(in chronological order)
- Hessischer Museumsverband (Hrsg.): Museums in Hessen. A handbook of the publicly accessible museums and collections in the state of Hesse. 4th, completely revised and expanded edition. Hessischer Museumsverband, Kassel 1994, ISBN 3-9800508-8-2 , pp. 192–193.
- Christoph Hahn, Siegmar Hohl (ed.): The great museum guide. Collections on art, culture, nature and technology in Germany. Bassermann Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-8094-5013-9 , p. 211.
- Stiftung Deutsches Segelflugmuseum Wasserkuppe with model flight (publisher): Rhön landscape and glider flight. Paper plane, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 2002, ISBN 978-3-89720-531-4 .
- Peter F. Selinger: Glider stories - the glider and glider of the German Glider Museum with model flight on the Wasserkuppe. Stiftung Deutsches Segelflugmuseum Wasserkuppe with model flight, Gersfeld (Rhön) 2004, ISBN 978-3-00-011649-0 .
- Günter Brinkmann, Dietrich Bertermann: German glider museum with model flight, Wasserkuppe / Rhön - interesting facts about glider flight, model flight and its history. Foundation of the German Glider Museum Wasserkuppe with model flight, Gersfeld (Rhön) 2011.
Web links
Commons : Deutsches Segelflugmuseum - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Official website of the German Gliding Museum
- German glider museum with model flight . In: Wasserkuppe-Rhoen.de
- Exhibits of the German Glider Museum . In: AirHistory.net (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ German Glider Museum. In: Flugrevue.de. April 18, 2013, accessed March 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Miriam Rommel: German Glider Museum receives impressive new exhibits. In: Osthessen-News.de. February 19, 2017. Retrieved March 21, 2019 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 54.3 " N , 9 ° 56 ′ 45.4" E