Bronkow Airfield
| Bronkow Airfield | |||
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| Characteristics | |||
| ICAO code | EDBQ | ||
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| Height above MSL | 129 m (423 ft ) | ||
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| Distance from the city center | 3.5 km east of Bronkow | ||
| Basic data | |||
| opening | 1937 | ||
| operator | Aviation Club Bronkow e. V. | ||
| Runways | |||
| 07/25 | 880 m × 40 m grass | ||
| 12/30 | 900 m × 40 m grass | ||
The airfield Bronkow is a special airfield and former military airfield in Oberspreewald-Lausitz in Brandenburg . The space is approved for balloons , gliders , motor gliders , ultralight aircraft , powered aircraft and helicopters with a maximum take-off weight of up to 5.7 tons. Furthermore, parachuting possible.
history
The Bronkow military airfield was built in 1936 and 1937. Barracks for around two hundred soldiers were built next to the two slopes. Furthermore, the square had a siding of the Deutsche Reichsbahn to Altdöbern .
Until the beginning of the Second World War , the airfield was used as a training ground for the Air Force . From the beginning of the war in 1939, he also served, among other things, for property protection for BRABAG in Schwarzheide . Mainly Messerschmitt Bf 108 and Bf 109E were stationed here. Towards the end of the war it served as a supply base for the Eastern Front , for which machines of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 and Junkers Ju 87 types were used. The facilities were almost completely destroyed by the end of the war.
In April 1945 the Red Army occupied the place for two years and stationed Ilyushin Il-16 and Ilyushin Il-2 . In 1947, the Red Army left the site and the tracks and hangars were dismantled. After that it was practically idle until 1955 and an airplane only occasionally landed or took off.
From 1955 the Society for Sport and Technology used the place and in 1956 the Aviation Club Bronkow was founded. Between 1957 and 1960 new accommodation and workshop buildings were built. In addition to civil use by the GST, the airfield was also used by the NVA as a helicopter landing pad. In August 1956, the NVA set up an earth firing range in the northern part of the site, which was in operation until 1972. The Aviation Club Bronkow has been operating the airfield since 2004.
Web links
literature
- Jürgen Zapf: Airfields of the Air Force 1934–1945 - and what was left of them . 1st edition. VDMedien Heinz Nickel, Zweibrücken 2001, ISBN 3-925480-52-8 , p. 400 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ AIP VFR, Deutsche Flugsicherung, 2018
- ↑ a b c Website of the Aviation Club Bronkow, archived on web.archive.org. October 2, 2003, accessed March 19, 2018 .
- ^ Military Airfield Directory. March 19, 2018. Retrieved March 19, 2018 .
