Alteno Air Base

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The airbase Alteno was an air base of the Air Force of the Armed Forces near Alteno , a district of Luckau .

history

The air base was completely completed in 1938. A provisional flight operation took place beforehand. The runway was grassy. In the southwest of the air base there were barracks and flight control. In the west within the forest there were barracks for accommodation. An Air Force flight school for twin-engine aircraft was housed here as early as 1936. By 1945, various pilot schools took turns occupying the space. As the first active flying unit here, from October 1944, the III. Jagdgeschwader 4 group , stationed with their Messerschmitt Bf 109 G / K.

The following table shows a list of all active flying units (excluding school and supplementary units) of the Air Force that were stationed here between 1938 and 1945.

From To unit equipment
October 1944 November 1944 III./JG 4 ( III.Group of Jagdgeschwader 4) Messerschmitt Bf 109G
January 1945 February 1945 III./JG 301 Focke-Wulf 190A , Focke-Wulf Ta 152A
February 1945 April 1945 I./SG 77 (I. Gruppe des Schlachtgeschwader 77) Focke-Wulf 190F

After the end of the Second World War, the airfield initially remained unused until the air forces of the National People's Army took it over. After the renovation work in 1967, including paving the runway, it was to be regarded as a fully-fledged airfield. However, it only had a simple infrastructure with a few buildings and a few aircraft parking spaces, and the area was not fenced. The place served as a decentralization airfield of the fighter wing 1 "Fritz Schmenkel" . After the dissolution of the National People's Army in 1990, there was no more flight operations. Until 2009, motorsport events were held by the MZA Luckau on this site. After temporary use as a storage area for wind turbines , Wirsol Solar AG built a solar park with a peak output of 21 MWp on the eastern part of the runway at the beginning of 2012 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45 Germany (1937 Borders) , pp 14-15 , accessed on September 9, 2014.
  2. ↑ NVA JG-1 on LSKLV-DDR.de , accessed on September 9, 2014.
  3. ↑ WIRSOL Solar AG sells 21 megawatt solar park in Brandenburg. January 13, 2012, accessed April 30, 2012 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 3.5 ″  N , 13 ° 47 ′ 6.7 ″  E