Altes Lager airfield

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Special landing site "Altes Lager"
Altes Lager Airfield (Brandenburg)
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Characteristics
Coordinates

51 ° 59 '46 "  N , 12 ° 59' 2"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 59 '46 "  N , 12 ° 59' 2"  E
Height above MSL 98 m (322  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 6.5 km west of Jueterbog
Basic data
operator Hang glider Club Berlin e. V.
Start-and runway
10/28 1050 m × 48 m concrete

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The Altes Lager airfield is a former military airfield in Niedergörsdorf near Jüterbog in Brandenburg , which was used by the air force until 1945 and then by the air forces of the Soviet / Russian troops in Germany until 1994 .

history

MiG-23MLD of the 833th IAP landing in Jüterbog (1992)

At the Jüterbog shooting range, an airship port was set up near the old camp during the First World War. For this purpose, two airship halls ("Albrecht" and "Baer") were built in 1916, including the necessary infrastructure, such as barracks and a hydrogen generation plant. After the First World War , use had to be given up in accordance with the provisions of the Versailles Treaty . One hall collapsed as a result of improper demolition work, resulting in deaths. The other was then dismantled by a specialist company. It came to Japan as spoils of war and was rebuilt in Kasumigaura .

After the Nazi takeover of power in 1933, when the Wehrmacht was rearming, an air base was set up at this point under the camouflage name “forest camp” . In addition to the airfield, the location of the air force , which was initially still secret, included the Luftzeugamt 1 / III, the Luftgau III partial air park A, the Air Force's medical teaching and testing department and the Aviation School of Air Fleet 1. The first commander of the school was Kurt Student . When the Aviation Technical School was relocated to Warsaw in 1940 , the Higher Aviation Technical School, which had meanwhile been founded in Berlin, moved to the forest camp. Maintenance of aircraft was suspended until 1943. The following table shows a selection of active air units (excluding school and supplementary units) of the Luftwaffe that were stationed there between 1935 and 1945.

From To unit equipment
November 1943 May 1944 I./JG 302 (I. Group of Jagdgeschwader 302) Messerschmitt Bf 109G
September 1944 October 1944 Wekusta 51 Junkers Ju 88D-1 , Junkers Ju 188F-1 , Messerschmitt Me 410A-3
November 1944 April 1945 II./NJG 11 (II. Group of the night fighter squadron 11) Focke-Wulf Fw 190A , Messerschmitt Bf 109G
December 1944 April 1945 Stab, III./JG 300 Messerschmitt Bf 109G
March 1945 April 1945 I./LG 1 Junkers Ju 88S / A

On April 20, 1945, in the course of the Battle of Berlin, the Red Army occupied the site after the staff of the Higher Aviation School had withdrawn as the last German troop unit, but without destroying the buildings that had been prepared for demolition. The Soviet air forces then used the site as a front airfield for just under three weeks. After the end of the war , various Soviet units were stationed in Jüterbog, such as the 196th Guards Transport Regiment (1946–1947), the headquarters of the 4th Guards Jagdflieger Division and the 114th Guards Battle Flier Division (1947–1949 and 1949–51), the 779th and 985. Bombing Regiment (1951) and the 886th independent reconnaissance regiment (1952–1953).

From 1953 to 1994 the airfield was operated as the site of the Soviet 833th Fighter Regiment (833th IAP) of the 16th Air Army as part of the Soviet / Russian troops and was continuously expanded. From 1966 to the mid-1980s, MiG-21 combat aircraft were stationed here. From 1984 these were supplemented by MiG-23 . From 1966, various helicopter and combat helicopter units also used the space.

Starting in 1996, the hangar was rented by the Berlin hang-glider club from the Brandenburgische Boden Gesellschaft for property management and exploitation , and in 1999 it was finally acquired. Since then, the airfield has mainly been used by hang- glider and paraglider pilots. The runway was shortened from 1600 to 1050 m.

literature

  • Henrik Schulze: History of the Jüterbog Garrison 1864–1994. 'Wailer'. Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 2000, ISBN 3-7648-2550-2 .
  • Lutz Freundt, Stephan Büttner: Red places. Russian military airfields. Germany 1945–1994. AeroLit, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-935525-11-4 .
  • Lutz Freundt: Soviet Aviation Forces Germany 1945–1994. Airfields (part 2) and units. Self-published, Diepholz 1998, ISBN 3-00-002665-7 .
  • Henrik Schulze: Military history Jüterbog: Jammerbock I from the beginnings to 1918. Project + Verlag Dr. E. Meißler, Hoppegarten 2014, ISBN 978-3-932566-74-5 .
  • Henrik Schulze: Military history Jüterbog: Jammerbock II. The Reichswehr (1919-1934). Projekt + Verlag Dr. E. Meißler, Hoppegarten 2015, ISBN 978-3-932566-75-2 .
  • Henrik Schulze: Military history Jüterbog: Jammerbock III. The Wehrmacht (1935-1945). Project * Verlag Dr. E. Meißler, Hoppegarten 2016, ISBN 978-3-932566-76-9 .
  • Henrik Schulze: Military History Jüterbog: Jammerbock IV. Soviet Army, German Armed Forces and Conversion (1945-2014). Self-published 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Military Airfields (Jüterbog / Altes Lager)
  2. ↑ a b Garrison history Jüterbog St. Barbara eV - Baer ( Memento of the original of August 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hl-barbara.de
  3. ^ Jürgen Zapf: Luftwaffe airfields 1934–1945 - and what was left of them. Volume 1. Berlin & Brandenburg. VDM , Zweibrücken 2001, ISBN 3-925480-52-8 , pp. 187-188.
  4. ↑ Garrison history Jüterbog St. Barbara eV - HFS  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.hl-barbara.de  
  5. ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45 Germany (1937 Borders). Pp. 315-317 , accessed September 18, 2014
  6. ^ Lutz Freundt, Stephan Büttner: Red places. Russian military airfields. Germany 1945–1994. Air bases, aerodromes, fallow military sites. AeroLit, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-935525-11-4 , p. 166.
  7. ↑ Garrison History Jüterbog St. Barbara eV - History ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hl-barbara.de
  8. ↑ Unit History, United States Military Mission, declassified intelligence report ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2007 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.history.hqusareur.army.mil
  9. ↑ Chronology of an association. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 14, 2011 ; Retrieved July 16, 2011 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dcb.org
  10. ↑ https://www.bfu-web.de/DE/Publikationen/Bulletins/2017/Bulletin2017-10.pdf?__blob=publicationFile