Hangar in the trickle
Coordinates: 47 ° 28 ′ 35.8 " N , 9 ° 36 ′ 24.4" E
| Hangar in the trickle | |
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Höchst , Austria
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| location | 47 ° 28 '35.8 " N , 9 ° 36' 24.4" E |
| height | 401 m above sea level A. |
| owner | Competition administration Höchst, Fußach, Gaißau |
| Building | |
| Establishment | 1941-1942 |
| Art | Arch hall |
| purpose | Glider hangar |
| Reuse | agricultural warehouse |
| Dimensions | |
| length | 22 m |
| width | 33 m |
| Ridge height | 8 meters |
The flight hall in trickle in the municipality peak in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg is a former hangar for gliders , the early 1940s was built and now under monument protection ( list entry is).
location
The hangar is located about 2 kilometers northwest of the center of Höchst and northeast of the municipality of Gaißau, which is adjacent to Höchst .
history
The hangar was built during the Second World War in 1940/41 by the Nazi Fliegerkorps for gliding operations . At the same time, a no longer existing airfield (length 1500 m and width 200 m) was created north of the hangar in a former flood relief channel of the Old Rhine running towards Lake Constance . The official approval for tow rope operation was granted in April 1941. The facility served as a gliding school for young pilots to graduate from levels A to C to obtain a class I pilot's license. In 1942, tow planes were approved.
The gliders used in training were manufactured in Walter Kittelberger's works, which was located at the current location of Plant 3 of the Blum company in Höchst.
construction
Structurally, the hall is characterized by a roof construction made of arched trusses , which span a vault around 30 m wide and 7 m high (internal dimensions) and are supported in the thirds by simple wooden supports. Wood was chosen as the building material for the construction because steel was in short supply during the war. The roofing was made of sheet metal on a wooden sub- roof .
On the long side of the hall, the roof trusses rest on solid reinforced concrete foundation plinths with a triangular cross-section, which have a vertical inner surface and a sloping outer surface.
The facades on both ends are provided with horizontal wooden formwork . On the north side, the hall has a small entrance door and large wooden sliding doors that run on forged rollers and are hung from the facade under a one-meter-wide canopy. Five windows and a two-leaf gate are let into the south facade.
Flight operations
The gliders took off on a grass runway in a northerly direction towards Lake Constance. The gliders were started with a winch . The tow rope and aircraft were transported back to the launch site on foot. Aircraft that were still there at the end of the war came to Switzerland.
emergency landing
On June 9, 1944, the airfield experienced the emergency landing of a four-engine B-24 bomber (serial number 42-78106) of the United States Army Air Forces . The machine was damaged during the bombing of the Schleissheim marshalling yard and later east of Innsbruck by flak fire. The pilots 1st. Lt. Herbert Oleson and 2nd Lt. Leo Carlton wanted to escape to neutral Switzerland. Due to a mix-up with the New Rhine , the pilot thought he was already on the other side of the Old Rhine in Swiss airspace and mistakenly landed on the airfield in the trickle instead of the Swiss airfield Altenrhein, which is only 3 kilometers away . The crew was consequently taken prisoner of war and led through Höchst to the Nazi headquarters in front of numerous onlookers , but was released after the end of the war. At first objects were stolen from the aircraft as "souvenirs", including ammunition and fuel. In the following winter it was made airworthy again so far that it could take off on frozen ground and leave the airfield in the trickle.
Reuse
After the war, the hangar became the property of the Republic of Austria in 1945 . In 1952, the Rheinwuhr competition ( rival administration of the three Rhine delta communities of Fußach , Höchst and Gaißau ) acquired the system. The hall and the surrounding area have been leased to a farmer since 1973 and are used as a cowshed and barn for machines and hay.
In 2006 the aging and partly dilapidated supporting structure was renovated with funds from the state of Vorarlberg .
literature
- (NN) . In: Bundesdenkmalamt (Hrsg.): Austrian magazine for art and monument preservation . tape 17 , 2007, ISSN 0029-9626 , p. 16 (Note: The hangar in the trickle is also treated as an example.).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Emergency landing B-24 in Höchst - Vorarlberg. Retrieved October 10, 2018 (German).
- ^ A b Hermann Gmeiner: Memories of my time as a soldier. (PDF) In: http://www.gemeindearchiv-bildstein.at/ . Bildstein community archive, November 2007, accessed on October 10, 2018 .
- ^ Beat Galliker: 1945 glider "import" across the Rhine. (PDF) In: Albatros-Info - Bulletin of IG Albatros Oltimerflugzeuge, No. 33. IG Albatros Oldtimersegelflugzeuge, Hochdorf, March 2010, pp. 22-25 , accessed on November 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Beat Galliker: 1945 glider "import" over the Rhine part 2. (PDF) In: Albatros-Info - Bulletin of IG Albatros Oltimerflugzeuge, No. 34. IG Albatros Oldtimersegelflugzeuge, Hochdorf, October 2010, pp. 19-23 , accessed on November 19, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Missing Air Crew Report (MACR No. 5783)
- ^ Mathias Weichelt: Switzerland missed by a hair's breadth. (PDF) In: Cockpit - Das Schweizer Luftfahrt-Magazin, No. 6. Ziegler Druck- und Verlags-AG, June 2009, accessed on November 19, 2018 .
- ↑ Emergency bomber landing in June 1944 . In: VN Heimat . ( vn.at [accessed on November 19, 2018]).
- ↑ Eric P. Jaeger: Emergency landing in Höchst . Höchst March 16, 2018 (documentary).
- ^ Department of Culture: Vorarlberger Kulturbericht 2006, p. 13. (PDF) In: https://www.vorarlberg.at/ . State of Vorarlberg, Office of the Vorarlberg State Government, Culture Department, June 2007, accessed on October 10, 2018 .