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The See Verprobungsstelle ( also: E -stelle See ) had existed on the Priwall peninsula in Lübeck-Travemünde since 1928 and was used to test aircraft, especially aircraft , for use at sea until the end of the Second World War .

history

Giant flying boat Rohrbach Romar on the Pötenitzer Wiek in front of the Travemünde airport on the Priwall
  • June 1914 Entry of the Lübeck-Travemünde aircraft yard in the commercial register
  • June 1914 First flight of an airplane
  • October 1917 Takeover of the aircraft yard by Fokker
  • September 1918 Transfer of the shipyard to the Caspar-Werke
  • April 1926 Start of passenger flights. The Priwall became the “Reichsflughafen” with an aircraft yard and Europe-wide flight connections. I.a. In the summer there was an airplane shuttle service Hamburg – Travemünde and an airline Hamburg – Travemünde – Copenhagen for the well-heeled public.
  • Early 1928 seaplane test site . The previous head of the Caspar-Werke Hermann Moll became its director . Moll remained head of the E -stelle See until June 30, 1936.
  • April 1, 1928. Ernst-August Roth became chief pilot and head of the “flight group” .
  • January 1929 Foundation of the testing center of the Reich Association of the German Aviation Industry
  • June 1934 cessation of passenger air traffic
  • May 1945 closure of the testing site at the end of the war

structure

Ruins of the Luftzeugamt See in Pötenitz , city of Dassow

As a predecessor of the Bundeswehr Technical services of the armed forces they served the testing of materiel of the armed forces . It consisted of several maintenance hangars, a landing pad , slipway and a flight control station. Convenient location with a large open space on land (about 1 km diameter) and the water area of Pötenitzer Wiek were here testing of water and an amphibian to. Since 1938 there have been at the site of E-site lake an aircraft carrier landing deck with rope catching system for the testing of carrier landings, carrier aircraft and the rope Fang complex itself. In Pötenitz , already on the Mecklenburg shores of Pötenitzer Wiek, there was the air Zeugamt Pötenitz , from the extensive, from nature overgrown ruins are preserved in the wooded shoreline. This also includes a former pier on the Mecklenburg shore.

The aircraft weapons were initially tested by the E -stelle See itself and from 1937 in the test center for aircraft armament in Tarnewitz on what is now the White Wiek .

Trial groups 1933

Information board in Berlin-Wedding about aircraft construction and the transfer to the test site on the Priwall in Travemünde
  • Group A: Navigation, radio systems, seafaring equipment, special military installations
  • Group B: Operation of aircraft, ships, docks, catapults and vehicles, ground services
  • Group E: Flight service, pilots ready
  • Group F: aircraft testing, preparation, implementation and evaluation of measurements, reports, assessments
  • Group G: testing of on-board devices and flight measuring devices, laboratory, precision engineering workshop, photo service, duplication
  • Group M: engines, propellers, aggregates, workshop and test stands

In 1936, the groups were given the letter E for testing and a number that indicated the group's area of ​​responsibility. In 1938 these identifiers were changed again. E1 (aircraft) became E7 (aircraft and installation), while E3 (engines) became E8 (engines) and after the relocation of engine testing to the Rechlin test center , E8 became the identifier for the test group for flight operations technology on aircraft carriers and the testing of the Flight operations on aircraft carriers. In 1942, the test group E 2/3 was created for testing sea and carrier aircraft.

Memorial sites

Seefliegerdenkmal on the green area between the Maritim Hotel and the beach promenade
On the Priwall in Travemünde, Wiekstraße, a memorial (propeller) commemorates the dead at the seaplane test site in Travemünde.

On Wiekstrasse there is a brick stele to which an airplane propeller is attached. This is a "memorial for the dead comrades at the Travemünde test site 1929–1945"

A historic propeller is set up between the beach promenade and the Maritim Hotel, which is intended to remind of the history of the Priwall as a seaplane test site.

literature

  • Hans A. Caspari et al. a .: E -stelle See Volume 1–3, Luftfahrt-Verlag Walter Zuerl, Steinebach-Wörthsee
  • Bodo Dirschauer: Lübeck aviation history , Steintor-Verlag, Lübeck
  • Heinrich Beauvais, Karl Kössler , Max Mayer, Christoph Regel: Deutsche Luftfahrt - Flugerprobungsstellen bis 1945 , Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-7637-6117-9
  • Christine Vogt-Müller, Ulrich Nieschalk: Aviation on the Priwall , Bernard & Graefe, 1998, ISBN 978-3000-00321-9

Web links

Commons : Seeflugzeug-Erprobungsstelle Travemünde  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information board Hanseatenweg der Naturfreunde Deutschlands, Landesverband Schleswig-Holstein at Mecklenburg Landstrasse 128 and Seebadmuseum des Heimatverein Travemünde e. V.
  2. ↑ Fallen memorials: war and civilian deaths of the sea flight test center (E -stelle) on the Priwall in Lübeck-Travemünde


Coordinates: 53 ° 57 '4.8 "  N , 10 ° 53" 8.3 "  E