Alt Daber airfield
| Alt Daber airfield | |||
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| ICAO code | unknown | ||
| IATA code | unknown | ||
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| Height above MSL | 65 m (213 ft ) | ||
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| Distance from the city center | 2 km southeast of Alt Daber, 5 km north of Wittstock |
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| opening | 1934 | ||
| closure | June 20, 1994 | ||
The airfield Old Dobra is a former military airfield in Brandenburg Wittstock / Dosse , who in the 1930s under the name Wittstock airbase was opened. Its use for flight purposes ended in 1994.
history
The site served as a glider airfield from 1934 . The actual expansion as a paratrooper school took place from 1938 to 1940, training began in 1939. Parachute School 2, Parachute Replacement Battalion 3 (from 1941) and Parachute Supplementary Battalion 4 (from 1941) were located here. Paratrooper training was carried out until 1944. One of the graduates was the actor Joachim Fuchsberger . Some flying units of the Luftwaffe also used the space for training, such as the III. Group of Kampfgeschwader 4 , whose He 111 had been moved here from October 5th to 16th, 1942 to train the glider towing. The first operational units came to Wittstock in autumn 1944, such as the IV./JG 301 from the beginning of February 1945 or the 1./NJG 100 , which flew from here from March 11 to April 29, 1945 against the Soviet troops .
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After the last German aircraft had left the field on April 30 as a result of the capitulation at the end of World War II , the Red Army occupied it on May 3, 1945. The Soviet air forces then stationed several fighter units here . From 1961 the 33rd IAP (Fighter Pilot Regiment) - the unit was part of the 16th GwIAD (Guard Fighter Pilot Division) within the 16th Air Army with headquarters in Damgarten - took over the place.
The runways consisted of compacted lawns. It was not until 1952 that the Soviet troops built an almost 2.5 kilometer long runway , the surface of which was paved . During investigations of the site and the listed functional buildings (command center, hangars, garages, accommodations with sanitary facilities, culture and sports halls) in the 1990s, it became known that the Wehrmacht had set up a cinema underground with space for 200 visitors. The airmen stationed here could see the newsreels or entertainment films.
The plant was shut down when the Soviet troops withdrew on June 20, 1994. The historian Wolfgang Dost, who was already allowed to enter the airfield during the GDR times, examined the area for valuables, artefacts or books on behalf of the city administration after the withdrawal of the Russian units . He remembers that the military airfield was “like a city of its own with hundreds of people”. During the last forays in the 2010s, he found the command rooms destroyed by vandalism , the old officers library, the sports hall and the former Russian military cinema that was built above ground. The entrances to the underground facility are buried and are under water.
The area, especially the runways, then temporarily served as a racing track and it was used for various events. The city was only able to start demolition and unsealing of three areas and building 11 of the former air base in 2014 with the help of EU funding from the Regional Development Fund and additional support from the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (Bima) . The basis for the work was, among other things, an environmental report and the analysis of soil samples and building materials, which also detected asbestos . The roosts of the bats , which have now made their home here, could be preserved. During this work it was also shown that a remarkable flora was created as a result of the fallow land .
However, in December 2011, a photovoltaic open-space system with an output of 67.8 MWp was built on a larger area with the Alt Daber solar park , which was expanded in 2014 to include a battery storage power plant.
literature
- Jürgen Zapf: Luftwaffe airfields 1934–1945 - ... and what was left of them . Berlin & Brandenburg. tape 1 . VDM, Zweibrücken 2001, ISBN 3-925480-52-8 .
Web links
- Use as a race track
- Photos from the former airfield
- Slide show of the remains of the Alt Daber airfield on www.youtube.com (3:35 min.)
- Uwe Hennig: Film 17 09 12 GSSD Alt Daber , (14:10 min.), Published in 2017.
- Carlino Negro: Urbex. Abandoned places. The last days of the air base on www.youtube.com (4:25 min.), Published in 2016.
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfgang Dierich: The Air Force Associations 1935-1945 . Outlines and short chronicles, a documentation. Ed .: Wolfgang Dierich. Verlag Heinz Nickel , Zweibrücken 1993, ISBN 3-925480-15-3 , p. 651 (703 pp.).
- ↑ Stefan Büttner: Red places - Russian military airfields Germany 1945–1994 - Fliegerhorste-Aerodrome-Military fallow. AeroLit, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-935525-11-4 , p. 103.
- ↑ a b c Christian Bark: Secrets buried in the catacombs . In: MAZ , April 7, 2016. Accessed October 29, 2018.
- ↑ image regional
- ^ Film by Uwe Hennig (see web links ), last picture at 1:50 pm.
- ↑ Christian Schönberg: Demolition of the troop accommodation at Alt Daber Air Base , on MOZ , January 5, 2014; accessed on October 29, 2018.
- ↑ BELECTRIC reference solar power plant Alt Daber ( Memento of the original dated August 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 291 kB).
- ↑ Solar park with storage provides controllable power . In: Renewable Energies. Das Magazin , November 27, 2014. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
- ↑ Alt Daber tests the latest power storage ( page no longer available , search in web archives ). In: Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg , November 26, 2014. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
