Halle-Nietleben airfield
| Halle-Nietleben airfield | |
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| Characteristics | |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 94 m (308 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 0 km from Halle / Heide-Süd |
| train | Halle-Nietleben station |
| Basic data | |
| opening | June 4, 1925 |
| closure | 1968 |
| Start-and runway | |
| Landing and runway | 600 m × 600 m circular grass area |
The Halle-Nietleben airfield was a commercial airfield , which later also served as a sports and military airfield , in Nietleben near Halle (Saale) .
history
As a reaction to the major flight days that took place on August 24, 1924 on the racecourse , the city council of Halle (Saale) decided to build its own airfield. A site not far from the Halle-Nietleben provincial insane asylum was chosen as the location and made available to Flugverkehr Halle AG , which was founded on March 31, 1925 . An agreement was made with Deutsche Aero Lloyd AG, a forerunner of Deutsche Lufthansa AG , to join their network. After some small aircraft had landed at the airfield on June 4, 1925 as part of the Germany sightseeing flight , official operations began on June 15, 1925.
From Halle there were initially direct connections to several major German cities (including Berlin and Cologne), from which various European destinations were served. In the summer of 1926, 14 lines served the airfield, which, however, quickly reached its capacity limits. In order to be able to meet the demand of the steadily increasing air traffic, the Reich Ministry of Transport decided in the same year to build an airport for the Leipzig-Halle agglomeration . With its opening in the spring of 1927, Halle airfield lost its importance in terms of transport policy. Scheduled flight operations were discontinued, and from 1928 the airfield was only used for sports pilots.
With the establishment of the Army and Air Force Intelligence School , Halle-Nietleben airfield was closed to the public in 1935 and was used by the Wehrmacht as a military airfield until 1945 .
The area was transferred to the Society for Sport and Technology in 1948 and was used again for sports pilots from 1952. The airfield served as a training location for glider pilots , powered airplane pilots and parachutists . With the start of construction on Halle-Neustadt , the Halle-Nietleben airfield was built over after 1964.
Civil use and scheduled flights
The Halle-Nietleben airfield was initially only planned as a commercial airfield for civil use. From 1926, the airport was served by the newly founded Deutsche Lufthansa , which had previously emerged from Aero Lloyd . 14 European lines were offered. Destinations such as Moscow could be reached with an intermediate stop. However, due to the slower aircraft at the time, a flight to Moscow took 17 hours. The following lines existed from 1926 to 1927:
| Intermediate stops | target |
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| Gera | Plauen |
| kassel | Dortmund |
| Erfurt - Stuttgart | Zurich |
| Cologne | |
| Berlin | |
| Magdeburg | Hamburg |
| Erfurt - Frankfurt - Mannheim | Karlsruhe |
| Leipzig - Dresden - Görlitz | Wroclaw |
| Wroclaw | Gliwice |
| Leipzig | Dresden |
| Munich | |
| Leipzig |
In addition to passenger aviation, Halle-Nietleben airfield was also used for air mail .
Military use
From 1935 to 1945 the Halle-Nietleben airfield was used as an air base by the Wehrmacht .
Insinuation
Luftgau Command III
- Airport area command 7./III, in Großenhain / Saxony
- Air base commander 40./III, Halle-Nietleben
Staff News Leader Luftgau Command III, Biesenthal (near Berlin )
- News leader command airport area 7./III, in Großenhain / Saxony
- Information center at the Air Base Command 40./III, Halle-Nietleben
Airport grounds
There was a large hangar on the airport grounds where aircraft could be parked. A round grass area with a diameter of 600 meters served as the runway . There was a shuttle bus from the city of Halle that drove passengers right up to the aircraft, as there was no terminal with security checks or the like, but everything was done directly on the plane.
The airport site was 4 kilometers from downtown Halle and 5.5 kilometers from Halle main station .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Former sports facilities in Halle. In: former-sportstaetten.de. Retrieved August 5, 2016 .
- ^ Nietleben airfield. In: scheer-halle.de. Retrieved August 5, 2016 .
- ↑ scheer-halle.de
