Baden-Oos airfield
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| ICAO code | EDTB | ||
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| Height above MSL | 123 m (404 ft ) | ||
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| Distance from the city center | 4 km northwest of Baden-Baden | ||
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| train | see Baden-Baden train station | ||
| Local transport | Various bus routes at the train station | ||
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| operator | Baden-Baden Airport V. | ||
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| 03/21 | 790 m × 30 m grass | ||
The Baden-Oos airfield is a special airfield in the Baden-Württemberg city of Baden-Baden . It is located at Baden-Baden train station in the Oos district . The former airfield has since moving flight operations to Karlsruhe / Baden-Baden in 1999, still has a 790 meter long and 30 meter wide grass runway . It is approved for gliders , powered gliders , microlight aircraft and powered aircraft with a maximum take-off weight of up to two tons.
history
Before the First World War
The first airfield was established here in the spring of 1910. In addition to an airship hangar with a floor area of 160 × 30 meters and a height of 30 meters, the site had a hydrogen storage facility with a capacity of 12,000 cubic meters and a rail connection for the hydrogen gas supply. It was inaugurated on August 21, 1910 with the arrival of the LZ 6 airship , making it the first German zeppelin landing site outside of Friedrichshafen . Two days later, LZ 6 carried out the first commercial passenger trip in Germany. On board were twelve passengers who each paid 200 marks for a two-hour tour . From this day on, further trips were made every day. On September 14, the hull of LZ 6 caught fire and the airship was irreparably damaged. Later, the Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft set up a regular connection between Frankfurt am Main and Baden-Baden with the airship LZ 7 . The last airship trip was with the airship LZ 11 on July 12, 1914.
In October 1910, Anthony Fokker made his first attempts at flying his airplane Spin on the field.
First World War
With the outbreak of the First World War , civil airship traffic came to a standstill, as the war ministry withdrew airships for the military. The airship hangar was also confiscated. The place was used as a military airfield. From 1917, old aircraft were scrapped at the airfield and usable parts were stored. A total of around 3,300 aircraft were recycled by 280 workers.
Between the wars and the Second World War
After the war, the airship hangar was sold to the city of Baden-Baden as the owner of the airfield. However, due to the Versailles Treaty , it had to be dismantled and resold. In Auggen , it was rebuilt in a smaller size as a sawing hall in 1923. The Segelflugwerke GmbH , which was renamed Weltensegler-Werke in 1922 , manufactured gliders on Ooser Platz . The planes did not take off from the field, however, but from hilltops in the nearby Black Forest . During the Second World War , the airfield was used from summer 1940 to December 1944 for glider training for future military pilots.
post war period
After the Second World War, the airfield was initially occupied by the French army . After the restrictions of the Potsdam Agreement were relaxed in 1960 , the square became accessible again to civil air traffic. The first flight clubs moved to the site in 1962. From 1965 the International Used Aircraft Fair (IGM) was held annually. In 1970 a 1200 meter long asphalt runway and in 1974 a new hangar were built. The number of annual flight movements peaked in 1975 at 60,244. At the end of the 1990s, the French military left the location and civil air traffic was relocated to Karlsruhe / Baden-Baden Airport from 1997 . The airfield was classified as a special airfield in 1999. Since then, the airfield has only had a shortened grass runway available. The asphalt runway was dismantled and an industrial park was created in its place.
Incidents
- On June 23, 1998, a Glaser Dirks DG-100 glider took off from the airfield. After about an hour of flight, a Panavia 200 tornado hit the glider from behind, destroying first the tail unit and then the left wing of the glider. As a result, the pilot lost control of the machine. The plane hit the ground almost vertically about ten miles from the airfield, killing the pilot. The tornado was badly damaged but was able to land safely in Ramstein . The crew of the fighter plane remained uninjured.
- On June 10, 2003 a glider of the type Rolladen Schneider LS3 -A took off in a winch start . The start was normal at first. At a height of 50 to 80 meters, the pilot disengaged the winch cable independently and then turned it to the right. The bank angle became steeper and steeper and the aircraft finally touched a tree with the right wing at a height of about five to seven meters. The aircraft then hit the ground with the bow side first. The pilot suffered serious injuries to his head and spine. He was flown to a hospital by rescue helicopter , but died from his injuries.
literature
- Antje Gillich: Gigantic halls for the "giants of the air" (Part II). The eventful fate of the zeppelin hall in Baden-Oos. In: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg , Volume 43, No. 1, 2014, pp. 22-25, doi: 10.11588 / nbdpfbw.2014.1.12989 .
- Reiner Haehling von Lanzenauer : The Baden-Oos airfield. In: Manfred Koch, Jürgen Morlok (eds.): From grass runways to Baden-Airport. Aviation in Mittelbaden. G. Braun, Karlsruhe 1999, ISBN 3-7650-8231-7 , pp. 13-62.
- Reiner Haehling von Lanzenauer: A hundred years ago: Baden-Baden airfield. In: Working group for the history of the city of Baden-Baden (ed.): Aquae 2010 . Edition 43, Baden-Baden 2010, ISSN 0175-4858 , pp. 13–37.
Web links
- Website of the Aero-Club Baden-Baden e. V.
- Website of Flugplatz Baden-Baden e. V.
- From zeppelin to glider flight. In: Baden's latest news from November 29, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ AIP VFR, Deutsche Flugsicherung, 2018
- ^ Rainer Haehling von Lanzenauer: A hundred years ago: Baden-Baden airfield. (2010), p. 16.
- ↑ a b c d e Abandoned, Forgotten & Little Known Airfields in Europe. forgottenairfields.com, September 13, 2015, accessed April 1, 2018 .
- ^ Rainer Haehling von Lanzenauer: A hundred years ago: Baden-Baden airfield. (2010), p. 27 f.
- ^ Reiner Haehling von Lanzenauer: The airfield of Baden-Oos. (1999), p. 47 f.
- ^ Rainer Haehling von Lanzenauer: A hundred years ago: Baden-Baden airfield. (2010), p. 31.
- ^ Reiner Haehling von Lanzenauer: The airfield of Baden-Oos. (1999), p. 56 f.
- ↑ Investigation report 3X191-1 / 2/98. Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation , July 1999, accessed on April 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Investigation report 3X104-0 / 03. Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation , October 2008, accessed on April 1, 2018 .
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