Jüterbog-Damm Air Base
| Jüterbog-Damm airfield | |||
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| Characteristics | |||
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| Height above MSL | 89 m (292 ft ) | ||
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| Distance from the city center | 2 km south of Jüterbog | ||
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| opening | 1935 | ||
| surface | 143 hectares | ||
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| Runway | 900 m × 500 m grass | ||
The airbase Jüterbog-Damm was an air base of the Air Force of the Armed Forces near the Brandenburg Jüterbog .
history
During the First World War , the area was used as the Damm artillery pilot station from 1914 to 1918 . After the end of the war, the facilities were demilitarized in accordance with the Versailles Peace Treaty , which forbade the operation of an air force. Therefore, the hangars that were built were converted into storage rooms and the runway, with the exception of an area of 500 × 500 m, which was used as an emergency landing site until September 1928, was converted into arable land. After the seizure of power by the National Socialists of the air base from 1934-35, under the leadership of the then renowned German architect was Max Cetto , massively expanded. After the air base command began its work in 1935, military flight operations began. The runway was grassy. There were six large hangars to the north of the air base . Behind it were other farm and accommodation buildings. Around the airfield, on the east, south and south-west sides, there were 20 open splinter protection boxes. The Jüterbog bomb school was located here as early as 1934 and was later renamed the Jüterbog Combat Flying School and Jüterbog Combat Flying Course. Other flight training regiments, pilot schools, a close-up reconnaissance school and the close-up reconnaissance squadron 102 (renamed as Aufklärungsgeschwader 103 from December 1944 ) were located here until 1945. The first active flying unit was the II./JG 132 with its Heinkel from October 1935 He 51A stationed. The following table shows a list of selected active flying units (excluding school and supplementary units) of the Air Force that were stationed here between 1935 and 1945.
| From | To | unit | equipment |
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| October 1935 | October 1938 | II./JG 132 (II. Group of Jagdgeschwader 132) | Heinkel He 51 , Messerschmitt Bf 109B , Messerschmitt Bf 109D |
| July 1938 | August 1938 | III./JG 132 | Arado Ar 68 , Heinkel He 112B |
| November 1938 | August 1939 | III. (Enlightenment) / LG 2 (III. (Reconnaissance) group of training squadron 2) | Dornier Do 17P , Henschel Hs 126 , Heinkel He 46 |
| November 1938 | December 1938 | I./JG 141 | Messerschmitt Bf 109D |
| January 1939 | April 1939 | I./ZG 141 | Messerschmitt Bf 109D |
| May 1939 | August 1939 | I./ZG 1 | Messerschmitt Bf 109D, Messerschmitt Bf 110B |
| May 1944 | May 1944 | III./KG 3 ( III.Group of Kampfgeschwaders 3) | Heinkel He 111H-6 |
| October 1944 | December 1944 | Stab, III./JG 300 | Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6, Messerschmitt Bf 109G-14 |
| November 1944 | December 1944 | II./JG 77 | Messerschmitt Bf 109G-10, Messerschmitt Bf 109G-14 |
| February 1945 | April 1945 | Staff, III./JG 4 | Messerschmitt Bf 109G, Messerschmitt Bf 109K |
On 22./23. April 1945 occupied Soviet armed forces of the 1st Ukrainian Front the air base, which then still to the cessation of hostilities by with IL-2 equipped units of the 1st Guards Battle Air Corps within the 2nd Air Army was used. After the end of the war, three of the six hangars were dismantled and sent to the Soviet Union as reparations . The remaining systems served from 1945 to accommodate the 853rd SAM (Fliegerwerkstatt, later 307th ARS) as a repair shop for aircraft of the 16th Air Army . From 1950 to 1964 the 18th GwOA, a liaison pilot unit , was stationed in Jüterbog-Damm . She was equipped with Po-2 and Jak-12 and from 1957 also with helicopters of the type SM-1 and Mi-4 . Around 1960 an anti- aircraft missile position equipped with S-75 was established. The area was also used by the Soviet land forces. After the GSSD withdrew , the site was handed over to the German authorities in June 1994, who declared it a conversion area and closed the airfield.
literature
- Stefan Büttner: Red places . Russian military airfields Germany 1945–1994. Air bases - aerodromes - military fallow. Ed .: Lutz Freundt. AeroLit, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-935525-11-4 , pp. 168 .
- Lutz Freundt: Soviet Aviation Forces Germany 1945–1994 . Airfields (part 2) and units. tape 2 . Edition Freundt, Diepholz 1998, ISBN 3-00-002665-7 , p. 10 .
- Jürgen Zapf: Airfields of the Air Force 1934–1945 - and what was left of them. Volume 1 - Berlin & Brandenburg . VDM Heinz Nickel , Zweibrücken 2002, ISBN 3-925480-52-8 , p. 188 ff .
- Henrik Schulze: Jammerbock I (military history Jüterbog 1792-2014 in 4 volumes) - From the beginnings to 1918 . Publishing house Dr. Erwin Meißler , Hoppegarten near Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-932566-74-5 , p. 103 ff .
- Henrik Schulze: Jammerbock II (military history Jüterbog 1792-2014 in 4 volumes) - The Reichswehr (1919-1934) . Publishing house Dr. Erwin Meißler , Hoppegarten near Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-932566-75-2 , p. 107 ff .
- Henrik Schulze: Jammerbock III (military history Jüterbog 1792–2014 in 4 volumes) - The Wehrmacht (1935–1945) . Publishing house Dr. Erwin Meißler , Hoppegarten near Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-932566-76-9 , p. 107 ff .
- Henrik Schulze: Jammerbock IV (Jüterbog military history 1792-2014 in 4 volumes) - Soviet Army, German Armed Forces and Conversion (1945-2014) . Self-published, Jüterbog 2018, p. 264-266 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45 Germany (1937 Borders) , pp 314-315 , accessed on September 18, 2014.