Aviator Observer School
The Aviation Observation School was a reconnaissance and training unit in Königsberg at the beginning of military airship travel.
history
On August 5th, 1810 Prof. Robertson's first balloon ascent from Schlossplatz; he ended up in quandits. In 1906 the attraction of the Königsberg zoo was a tethered balloon of the association for airship travel. He climbed to a height of 300 meters with 15 passengers. The trip cost 3 marks. In 1913 four air battalions , each with three companies , were formed in the Prussian army :
- Doberitz ,
- Cologne with Hanover and Darmstadt
- Strasbourg with Metz and Freiburg
- Graudenz with Königsberg
Königsberg was reserved for military airship travel in the form of pilot training and observation. In 1913, a large airship hangar was built north of Amalienau , which housed zeppelins and tethered balloons for exploration and training flights. The hall had to be demolished in 1919 as part of the Versailles Treaty . On August 24, 1930, the last landed airship Graf Zeppelin on the airport Devau .
literature
- Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. City and surroundings . Flechsig, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .
- Richard Armstedt: history of the royal. Capital and residence city of Königsberg in Prussia. Hobbing & Büchle, Stuttgart 1899 ( German land and life in single descriptions . 2, city stories), (reprint: Melchior-Verlag, Wolfenbüttel 2006, ISBN 3-939102-70-9 ( historical library )).
- Fritz Gause : The history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia. 3 volumes. 2nd / 3rd supplemented edition. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1996, ISBN 3-412-08896-X .
- Jürgen Manthey : Königsberg - history of a world citizenship republic . Hanser , Munich 2005, ISBN 3-446-20619-1 .
- Gunnar Strunz: Discover Königsberg. Between Memel and fresh lagoon . Trescher, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89794-071-X .