Lipperbruch Air Base

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GermanyFlag of Germany (state) .svg Lipperbruch Air Base
former headquarters

former headquarters
country Germany
local community Lippstadt
Coordinates : 51 ° 42 '  N , 8 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 42 '23 "  N , 8 ° 21' 51"  E
Opened 1936
Old barracks names
1936–1945
1945
1945–1956
1957–2006 		Richthofen-Kaserne
Advanced Landing Ground Y-98
Camp El Alamein
Lipperland-Kaserne 		German EmpireWar Ensign of Germany (1938–1945) .svg
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Lipperbruch Air Base (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Lipperbruch Air Base

Location of the Lipperbruch air base in North Rhine-Westphalia
Construction plan of the air base from October 1938, underlaid: City map of Lippstadt (as of 2016)

The Lipperbruch air base is a former military airfield (1936-1945), about 5 km north of Lippstadt , in what is now the Lipperbruch district.

Origins and structure of the air base

At the beginning of 1932 the Lippstädter Segelflugvereinigung e. V. founded with the aim of " training young aviators despite the gagging of the Versailles Treaty ". For this purpose, a site of 147 acres , approx. 5 km north of Lippstadt in the undeveloped Lipper Bruch, was acquired. The costs for the preparation of the uninhabited area were raised from funds to promote emergency work and through loans from the district welfare association (through savings due to the employment of the unemployed). About 700 men were employed, so-called welfare support recipients, as well as volunteer workers who were barracked in a camp in the Lippstädter Fichten between Lippstadt , Lipperode and Lipperbruch . Even before construction of the glider airfield began, there were official efforts in Lippstadt towards Berlin to make Lippstadt a garrison town again. Otto Steinbrinck , a native of Lippstadt and well-known submarine commander of the First World War, served as advocate . Construction of the glider airfield began in January 1934, and the inauguration took place on September 16, 1934. In preparation for the construction of an air force, which was still forbidden, the expansion into an air base with air force barracks began in secret. In November 1934, funds began to flow in, initially confidential for the expansion of the glider airfield into an air base from the air office in Münster to Lippstadt. Another 250 acres of land were expropriated from the owner of Gut Mentzelsfelde, the gliding club was financially compensated and moved its headquarters to Brilon . In a letter dated February 19, 1936, the Münster Aviation Authority officially revoked the flight permit for the glider airfield, but until then operations had continued in the northern part of the site, parallel to the expansion to the air base. The Horten brothers had three type H II aircraft built here in 1937 . These were gliders in flying wing design .

The military expansion began with high pressure, the topping-out ceremony took place on May 25, 1935, 3 months after the "official" establishment of the Air Force by Hitler's decree. The Lipperbruch air base with the attached Richthofen barracks was put into operation in 1936 as one of the first newly built military airfields of the newly established air force on February 29, 1936 with the establishment of the air base command . The system was given the code name "Napoleon". The first occupation, but only for a few days, took place on March 1st with Jagdgeschwader 132 , equipped with Heinkel He 51 . The Jagdgeschwader 132 was involved in the occupation of the demilitarized Rhineland together with the I. Group of the Sturzkampfgeschwader 165 , relocated from Kitzingen . In the following years, until the beginning of the Second World War, various fighter, combat and destroyer squadrons were stationed in Lippstadt, or were newly established or converted, as a result of the constant expansion and reconstruction of the air force.

A dummy airport also belonged to this air base. These were often set up near real airfields and were intended to irritate attacking aircraft. The facility was located on the meadows west of Wiedenbrücker Straße, across from Gut Mentzelsfelde. Today there is a golf course. At the time, it was equipped with a lighting system to simulate night activities. However, this bogus airport was never attacked. As a relic, there is still a bunker to the west of the forest.

List of deployed Air Force units

(after Zeng)

From To unit equipment
February 1936 March 1936 III./ JG 134 Heinkel He 51
March 1937 III./ JG 134 Heinkel He 51, Arado Ar 68E
April 1937 October 1938 Stab, I. / KG 254 Junkers Ju 52 / 3m
November 1938 December 1938 III./ JG 142 Messerschmitt Bf 109D
January 1939 April 1939 III./ ZG 142 Messerschmitt Bf 109B, Messerschmitt Bf 109C, Messerschmitt Bf 109D
May 1939 August 1939 III./ ZG 26 Messerschmitt Bf 109D
December 1939 I. (Hunting) / LG 2 Messerschmitt Bf 109E
December 1939 January 1940 I. / ZG 26 Messerschmitt Bf 109D, Messerschmitt Bf 110
February 1940 March 1940 I. / St.G. 77 Junkers Ju 87B
April 1940 June 1940 KGr. z. b. V. 11 Junkers Ju 52 / 3m
May 1940 KGr. z. b. V. 101 Junkers Ju 52 / 3m
May 1940 March 1941 Stuka-Erg.St./VIII.Fliegerkorps * Junkers Ju 87B
August 1940 January 1942 Result St. (Schl.) / LG 2 * Junkers Ju 87B
May 1941 2. (H) / Enlightenment group 32
May 1941 June 1941 I. / SKG 210 Messerschmitt Bf 110
January 1942 March 1942 Erg.St./ Schl.G. 1 * Henschel Hs 129
January 1942 April 1942 Ii./ Schl.G. 1 Henschel Hs 123 , Henschel Hs 129
March 1942 April 1942 5./Erg.JGr. East *
April 1942 May 1942 4th and 8th / Schl.G. 1 Henschel Hs 129
August 1944 November 1944 1. / NJG 11 Focke-Wulf Fw 190A , Messerschmitt Bf 109G
* Reserve and replacement units

Structural equipment

Former officers' home (Försterweg 36)
Former accommodation building (Richthofenstraße)
Former command building (Lilienthalstrasse, corner of Ringstrasse)

The air base area is bounded in a semicircle to the north by the Mastholter Grenzgraben , to the east by two existing, parallel drainage channels, the Ochsengraben and the Boker Canal , as well as the parallel road between Lipperode and Mastholte (today's Bismarckstraße (L 782)) to the east. The southern boundary is made by the Ochsengraben, which bends in a westerly direction, while the Boker Canal runs even further south. The access was via a road leading out of Lippstadt in a north-north-east direction (at the time renamed as Richthofenallee , today Mastholter Strasse), which after the barracks guard continues straight to the shipyard on the edge of the airfield. For camouflage reasons , to disguise the actual use, this was optically continued as a "camouflage road" on the airfield to the northeastern edge of the airfield on the country road that bends in a northeastern direction. Parallel to the southern border, a short (today's Heidewinkel) road to the northwest and a longer access road (Adolf-Hitler-Strasse, today's Richthofenstrasse) were laid out to the east. To the south of Richthofenstrasse are the accommodation buildings (located in the eastern part between today's Richthofenstrasse and Lindberghstrasse) and the utility / kitchen building. The gable-facing accommodation buildings with the construction plan numbers 4a / 4b, 9a / 9b, 10a / 10b and 11a / 11b were connected to the street by an articulated wall with windows and side passages to the accommodation entrances. On the side facing away from the street, there was a roof over the entire width of the wall. At the eastern end of the street, on the southeast corner of the site, there was a swimming pond, the gym and a sewage treatment plant . To the south of today's Lindberghstrasse, three additional barracks were built parallel to the border fence. To the north of Richthofenstrasse were the staff and medical facilities , the sports field, a parade ground and shooting ranges . On Richthofenallee (Mastholter Straße), next to the guard, were the commandant's office , the teaching building, the archive , official apartments for stokers and the canteen with a bowling alley . To the west of Richthofenallee, apartments and houses for officers (today Försterweg) and apartment buildings for servants (today Heidewinkel), as well as the officers' mess (today Försterweg) were built. The airfield stretched north of the barracks and consisted of a layer of grass on sandy ground, which, because of its inadequacy, had to be laboriously prepared with the acquisition of around 1,000 railway wagons of earth and fertilizer. For camouflage reasons, the airfield was parceled out and planted differently. On the southern edge of the airfield were the command building (corner of today's Lilienthalstrasse / Ringstrasse), a shipyard and six aircraft hangars , supply stores, the fire station , garages and workshops, the armory and the commandant's apartment, etc. a. set up. There was already a track connection from the west at the time of construction, branching off from the Lippstadt-Rheda railway line , which continued on the southern and eastern edge of the airfield to a hall in the northwest of the airfield. Two control radio direction finders were set up on a bearing axis with a course of 258 ° in the west on the border of the place, in the east outside the military area, on the other side of the country road. The airfield was about 1000 m in east-west direction and about 1300 m in north-south direction. There were a total of four underground tank facilities on the airfield, three in the north and one in the south.

The buildings were designed in the “new style of the Luftwaffe”, “the simplicity and solidity, bulkiness and purpose at the same time”, with cladding of the foundations, the window and door conversions, columns, stairs, etc. made of local green Anröchter sandstone . The accommodation buildings and the officers' mess were two-storey with mansards - hipped roof , the utility, staff and medical buildings were single-storey. Between the buildings, for reasons of supply, but also for camouflage reasons, agriculture and fruit farming was carried out, and the flight area was grazed with sheep. A field farmer was employed by the Luftkreiskommando IV for the preparation and maintenance of the airfield in particular.

The drinking water was supplied via a newly constructed water pipe made of cast iron with a diameter of 350 mm, which, under pressure from the population of Lipperode, was not routed across the north of Lippstadt, but across the local area in order to establish a modern drinking water supply there as well. The line followed the road to Mastholte and was relocated to the barracks area at the level of the swimming pond, under the water ditches. The wastewater was treated centrally in the barracks own sewage treatment plant and probably discharged into the Ochsengraben.

Second World War

Aerial photo of the United States Army Air Forces aerial reconnaissance March 28, 1945

After the end of the attack on Poland , Lippstadt became a training station for the Messerschmitt Bf 109 pilots in Lehrgeschwader 2 , was a transit station for squadrons deployed in the war zones in the west ( Schnellkampfgeschwader 210 ) or in the east ( Schlachtgeschwader 1 ). In the course of the increased air raids by the Allies in Germany, the night fighter squadron 11 with Messerschmitt Bf 109G and Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A were stationed for air defense . In 1944, the air base was the target of bomber attacks by the 8th Air Force , which caused considerable damage to buildings and infrastructure during the attacks on April 19 and October 5. On April 19, 122 bombers were involved in the attack, dropping 840 500lb high explosive bombs and 1547 100lb incendiary bombs between 10:25 and 10:40 a.m. (UTC). For use on October 5th, 4 bomber groups of the 14th and 20th Combat Bombardment Wing, VIII Bomber Command of the 8th Air Force were deployed with 116 B-25 bombers. 2 bombers hit Lipperode incorrectly, 56 bombers from other units, probably aiming at the Paderborn air park (south of the city center, in the Mönkeloh district, the USAAF report says “A / F Paderborn”), mistakenly bombed the Lippstadt air base. A total of 1,267 500lb explosive bombs and 680 500lb incendiary bombs were dropped as of 11:53 a.m. (UTC). 107 P-51s of the 355th and 361th, as well as 51 P-47s of the 356th Fighter Group flew as escort . a. attacked in Geseke (airfield) and Hamm (railway).

The Luftwaffe's flight operations were suspended in March 1945 as a result of supply shortages with supplies, fuel and the retreat of the German troops. On March 29, 1945, buildings of the air base that were important for flight operations were blown up by the retreating German units, before heads of the British 21st Army Group from the north and the 1st and 9th US Army from the south entered on April 1, 1945 met near Lippstadt to close the Ruhr basin . Units of the IX Engineer Command 830th Engineer Aviation Battalion took over the airfield on April 7th, cleared it of mines and aircraft wrecks and prepared it as Advanced Landing Ground Y-98 Lippstadt . Within a day, C-47 Skytrains were able to fly in to support the troops. On April 20, the damage was repaired so that combat units could use the air base again, the 373rd Fighter Group of the 9th Air Force was relocated there with P-47 Thunderbolt and supported the further advance of the Allied troops from Lippstadt. After the Wehrmacht surrendered, the airfield was kept open for transport aircraft until July 12, 1945 , and the barracks were used to accommodate soldiers. With the establishment of the occupation zones , the facility was handed over from the US to the British troops in June 1945.

Use after the end of the Second World War

Military use

The air base was closed because Lippstadt did not become an RAF base; the facility was partly used as a bomb dropping site by the RAF. Most of the rest of the former air base was used for agriculture. The British Army built its own barracks ("Camp El Alamein ") on a large part of the airfield. In 1956, the troops stationed there moved to the former anti-aircraft barracks in the south of Lippstadt (" Churchill Barracks" ), which had also been occupied by British troops since the end of the war. ) around.

After a brief use of the newly built barracks site in Lipperbruch by a federal customs school , the site was taken over by the Bundeswehr administration in December 1957 and Quartermaster Battalion 7 and Repair Company 7 moved into the "Lipperland barracks" location in January 1958 . The barracks area covered a total of 44.2 hectares. In the period up to the dissolution of the barracks on December 22, 2006, many units of the 7th Panzer Grenadier Division were stationed. Over a longer period of time were u. a. the airborne brigade 27 with various airborne units, the telecommunications battalion 7, the transport battalion 801 , as well as the reserve hospital group 7318 are based in the Lipperland barracks.

The remaining "military" use is the former tank farm of the Bundeswehr, north of the Glennesiedlung, as a clubhouse for the Lippstadt reservist comradeship .

Civil use

With the return of former soldiers and the admission of refugees and displaced persons after the end of the war, the housing situation in Lippstadt developed dramatically. The former air force barracks were initially used for very provisional repairs, often on their own, to alleviate the housing shortage. On October 30, 1946, the area "Fliegerhorst" was officially renamed "Lippstadt-Lipperbruch". After the somewhat unclear ownership situation after the war had been clarified, the planned settlement of the Lipperbruch began in 1949. The access road (formerly Richthofenallee, now Mastholter Strasse) was carried out in a north-easterly direction, in the southern part parallel to Tarnstrasse, up to the confluence of Tarnstrasse with Landstrasse Lipperbruch-Mastholte, Tarnstrasse became a secondary / access road (now Oppelner Street). After an inventory with a recording of the damage and estimates of the restoration effort by the city of Lippstadt, the buildings were erected on the barracks area or demolished in the event of excessive destruction, the free spaces gained by demolition, but also the spaces in between, mainly in the western part of the barracks area Residential houses built on. The generosity and expansiveness of the original barracks architecture has thus been given up in favor of the requirements of residential development for the settlement of the new district.

The area of ​​the airfield west of Tarnstrasse / Mastholter Strasse, as well as open spaces to the west and south outside the former military area, was built on as planned with mostly single-family houses. A commercial area is being built around the former armory, next to Tarnstrasse. The settlement area west of the former barracks area is popularly called the bomb settlement , the settlement built on the western border of the airfield is called the Warmia settlement , north of it (between the former Tarnstrasse and the border of the square) is the Glenne settlement . The farmers' settlement was built south of the guard . The sports field is rotated by 90 ° and shifted to the east (is thus south of the command building, adjacent to the shooting range). A Catholic church was built to the west of the former guard in 1954/55, and a Protestant church in 1959 on the site of the eastern staff building. In 1958 the Otto-Lilienthal elementary school was built on the southern part of the sports field or parade ground , and in 1968 a children's home of the Protestant church in the northern sports field area, which was later converted into a senior citizens' facility and expanded in the following years. On the northeastern edge of the airfield (between Ringstrasse and Boker Canal), the municipal utilities built a drinking water extraction system in 1958, which is still in operation today. Between the western barracks and the bomb settlement, a Catholic grammar school, the Marienschule, was rebuilt in 1966 , as the old school building in the city center no longer offered sufficient space.

After the Lipperland barracks were abandoned by the German armed forces at the end of 2006, the barracks site lay fallow for a number of years. A further use report, commissioned by the city of Lippstadt in 2008, showed a rather problematic conversion. The site was then bought by an investor in 2012. The buildings in the southern Bundeswehr barracks area, including the buildings of the former air base that have been preserved there, have been demolished. There is residential development with single-family houses, designated as the residential area Lippischer Bruch , the northern part with the preserved buildings and properties of the former Bundeswehr barracks will be used commercially as a business park after conversion / modernization (including forwarding companies, offices, company branches, facilities of the Soest district ).

The same investor acquired the former building of the air base south of Richthofenstrasse from BImA in August 2015 . The renovation of the green areas and the residential buildings began in autumn, and 120 modernized apartments are to be built in the existing buildings on an area of ​​40,000 m².

From the former air base development from 1935, along today's Richthofenstrasse and Lindberghstrasse are the teaching building (residential and commercial building), 7 out of 10 accommodation buildings for teams (residential buildings), part of the shooting ranges (the shooting department of the sports club built on the site of the KK shooting range BW Lipperbruch eV a shooting range) and the swimming pond (fishing club), as well as parts of the sewage treatment plant (modernized and expanded in the 1960s, shut down in the 1980s) have been preserved. The command building (residential building, voluntary fire brigade) is on Lilienthalstrasse, the officers 'apartment buildings (apartments, nursing home) and the officers' mess (textile production) on Försterweg (western part), and Hall 22 on Ringstrasse (parachute packing room of the Bundeswehr, now club and assembly room), as well as former officers' houses (private houses) in Heidewinkel, a boiler house on Ostlandstrasse (formerly a grocery store, vacant since 2012), as well as the former commandant's office (apartments, under monument protection since 1998), the archive (first school and Church room, now owner-occupied flats) and the canteen / bowling alley (bakery), as well as small houses (former stoker apartments) have been preserved. Other buildings have meanwhile been demolished: the sanitary building (initially the establishment of the youth welfare of the Protestant church, then the senior citizens' home) was demolished in 2008, the hall 23 at the corner of Ostlandstrasse and Mastholter Strasse is after interim use by a glass factory after its insolvency after a long time The vacancy rate was demolished in 2013 in favor of a grocery discounter, the petrol washing machine with tower (corner of Ringstrasse and Mastholter Strasse) was partially preserved during the armed forces (site administration) and was removed in the course of the residential development. The commercial / kitchen building (formerly a bakery and cinema, then a Russian sauna, vacant) was demolished at the end of 2015 as part of the renovation work. On the waterworks site there are still foundations of hangar no.4, the remains of a “Munahaus” between hall 4 and 5, as well as remains of the foundations and walls of the barrel store. The “Trafo B” building was used by the municipal utilities as a substation for some time, has been preserved, but has been shut down. The armory on today's Ostlandstrasse is used commercially (after renovations). Some buildings have changed so much that it is difficult to identify their origin or their original condition. The railway loading ramp was in place on Ostlandstrasse until 1996, the siding itself was preserved in the construction phase of Lipperbruch, mainly because of the companies that had settled there, but was probably dismantled in connection with the construction of the B55 in Lippstadt (inauguration in autumn 1959).

literature

  • Wolfgang Suchanek and Ottomar Bittner: Lipperbruch - A reflection of contemporary German history . In: Lippstadt traces . Heimatbund Lippstadt e. V., Lippstadt 1996, ISBN 3-9804307-0-7 .

Web links

Website of the Bürgerring Lipperbruch with historical photos of barracks buildings

Commons : Lipperbruch Air Base  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Invitation from the Lippstadt Gliding Association, January 6, 1932
  2. ↑ Communication from the municipal building office to the Prussian land registry office of September 27, 1933. Lippstadt City Archives, Gb 260 S.003
  3. ↑ Undated project plan for the airfield facility with u. a. the indication: 147 acres of land, 80 of which are tree-covered, 67 acres cleared earlier, with stumps, bushes, birch shoots, the work was taken over by the FAD. City Archives Lippstadt, Gb 260 S.002
  4. ↑ Karin Epkenhans: Lippstadt 1933–1945, presentation and documentation on the history of the city of Lippstadt during National Socialism . In: Sources and research on the history of the city of Lippstadt . tape 10 . Lippstadt 1995.
  5. ^ Correspondence between the mayor of Lippstadt and a lieutenant captain. D. Steinbrinck in Berlin, v. February 15, 1934, March 12, 1934 and May 30, 1934 (with (partly handwritten) notes about additional telephone calls made). Lippstadt City Archives, G 520, p. 006, p. 007, p. 008/2 and p. 009
  6. ↑ Letter from the Münster Aviation Office to the City of Lippstadt dated August 21, 1934 with a certificate of the operating license for a private airport (subject to conditions for structural changes to be made). Lippstadt City Archives, G 153, p. 026
  7. ↑ Contract of the Reich Treasury (aviation), represented by the Luftkreiskommandantur IV in Münster with the city of Lippstadt, on a loan of the runway and surrounding area for 30 years, concluded on October 20, 1936, beginning of the release from April 1, 1934. NRW State Archives Münster B156, file no.12, p. 12ff
  8. ↑ Letter from the Munster Air Office to the fee office of the Munster Air Office from November 23, 1934, Nachr. Mayor Lippstadt with the instruction, a discount i. H. of 15,000 RM. City Archives Lippstadt G 520 p. 003
  9. ^ Letter from the Luftsportlandesgruppe 10 to the Mayor of Lippstadt from October 9, 1935 with the settlement of construction costs and compensation arrangements. City Archives Lippstadt G153
  10. ^ Letter from the Munster Air Office to the City of Lippstadt dated February 19, 1936 revoking the operating license for the private airport. Lippstadt City Archives, G 153, p. 009
  11. ^ Karl Ries: Air bases and ports of operations of the Air Force. Plan sketches 33-45 . Stuttgart 1993.
  12. ↑ a b Details on JG 132 . ( [1] [accessed December 26, 2018]).
  13. ↑ War Chronicle Waldliesborn - GenWiki. Retrieved May 28, 2020 .
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  15. ^ Agricultural Diary, 1936; to Suchanek / Bittner: Lipperbruch
  16. ↑ Manual measurement of the Soest district basemap.
  17. ↑ Wolfgang Dierich: Kampfgeschwader 55 'Greif' . Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-87943-340-2 , p. 16 .
  18. ↑ Files owned by Ottomar Bittner
  19. ^ Map of the municipal building office of the city of Lippstadt from December 7, 1935, archive of the Stadtwerke Lippstadt.
  20. ↑ USAFHRA Document 02005203 . ( [2] [accessed December 26, 2018]).
  21. ↑ USAAF attack principles based on information from the USAAF film "Target For Today" ( on Youtube ), last accessed on December 26, 2018
  22. ↑ a b Inventory of the city building office with plans and entries of the destruction (1948–1950). City Archives Lippstadt H 303, H 304 and H 305
  23. ↑ various operational reports of the 8th Air Force, from microfilm roll A5997 of the Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell Airforce Base, Alabama, USA
  24. ^ A b IX Engineer Command ETO Airfields, General Construction Information . ( [3] [accessed October 20, 2017]).
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  28. ↑ A difficult moment and a great loss . The Patriot of December 23, 2006
  29. ↑ Minutes of the meeting of the administrative committee of the city of Lippstadt v. September 30, 1946. Lippstadt City Archives PR37
  30. ↑ Minutes of the meeting of the city council of Lippstadt v. November 14, 1946 with first mention as "District Lippstadt-Lipperbruch". City archive Lippstadt PR83
  31. ^ Minutes of the meeting of the housing committee of the city of Lippstadt v. March 20, 1946 with a report that the air base area was approved by the OFD for residential development. City archive Lippstadt PR36
  32. ^ Minutes of the meeting of the building committee of the city of Lippstadt v. August 16, 1946 with a report from the City Planning Council on the lack of progress on the necessary residential development despite approval, and a. because of the continued use of the site by the British Army. City archive Lippstadt PR36
  33. ↑ Development plans of the city of Lippstadt from December 1949 and June 1950 for Lipperbruch. City archive Lippstadt 891 and 844
  34. ↑ Modernization of the waterworks . In: 'Stadtwerke' - the customer magazine of Stadtwerke Lippstadt . No. 1 , 2015, p. 12–13 ( PDF download [accessed December 26, 2018]).
  35. ↑ Development plan No. 300 City of Lippstadt from 2014 . ( PDF [accessed December 26, 2018]).
  36. ↑ Development plan No. 301 City of Lippstadt from 2014 . ( PDF [accessed December 26, 2018]).
  37. ↑ Business park website . ( [5] [accessed December 26, 2018]).
  38. ↑ Website for the residential area . ( [6] [accessed December 26, 2018]).
  39. ↑ The fence of the offense , The Patriot of August 29, 2015
  40. ↑ Tabula rasa on Richthofenstrasse . The Patriot of December 19, 2015
  41. ^ Resolution to accept the contract with the Reichsbahndirektion Essen on the use of the siding in the meeting of the administrative committee of the city of Lippstadt v. May 13, 1947. Lippstadt City Archives PR37
  42. ↑ Resolution on continued use in the meeting of the administrative committee of the city of Lippstadt v. March 7, 1951. Lippstadt City Archives PR84, p. 76ff.
  43. ↑ Time estimate according to eyewitness report. Neither the former operator of the track system, Deutsche Bahn, or its subsidiaries set up after the rail reform, nor the successor to the Federal Railway Authority, or the Railway Museum in Nuremberg have documents on this route. There is also no official indication of where the documents of the former Reichsbahndirektion in Essen were archived. The state archive of North Rhine-Westphalia in Duisburg has not yet or provisionally cataloged documents from the Reichsbahn (probably also from Essen). The route is only shown on a DB route map from 1953, neither on earlier nor later editions.
  44. ↑ Anna u. Ulrich Scheler: The Rhedaer Bahn . In: Lippstädter traces - series of publications of the Heimatbund Lippstadt . No. 1 , 1987, pp. 37-40 .