Chemnitz-Jahnsdorf airfield
Chemnitz-Jahnsdorf airfield |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | EDCJ |
| IATA code | ZTZ |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 366 m (1201 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 11 km southwest of Chemnitz |
| Street | B169 |
| train | Chemnitz Bahn line C11 (operated by City-Bahn Chemnitz ) |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1978 |
| operator | Chemnitz-Jahnsdorf GmbH airfield |
| Runways | |
| 07/25 | 900 m × 20 m asphalt |
| 07/25 | 880 m × 30 m grass |
The Chemnitz-Jahnsdorf airfield is a commercial airfield and is located south of Chemnitz in the Pfaffenhain district of the Jahnsdorf / Erzgeb community.
It was rebuilt in the GDR era and put into operation in 1978 after the old Chemnitz airfield, which had existed since 1926, had to give way to the Fritz Heckert residential area. In 1980 the Society for Sport and Technology (GST) opened a flying school to train future military pilots . Up to 500 flight movements per day took place until the end of the GDR.
Two flight schools have a second office for their company on the airfield and offer sightseeing and photo flights.
Airlines and Destinations
At the moment there are no scheduled or charter flights. The airfield is mainly used for general aviation and business flights .
history
Development of the Chemnitz airfield
Plans to build an airport in the south-east of the city had been in existence since 1910, but due to the First World War, they were not implemented. Only after the establishment of Chemnitzer Flughafen GmbH on March 5, 1925, the first expansion of a site 3 km southwest of the city center on the Helbersdorfer Flur, northwest of Stollberger Strasse (coordinates) . Chemnitz Airport was inaugurated on May 4, 1926. Regular air traffic began just a few days after it opened, for example to Munich , Stuttgart , Vienna and Budapest .
The first aeronautical activities began in 1932, which a little later were brought together in a flight training center of the DLV . This resulted in a Reich Sports Aviation School in 1936, from which a Reich School for Motorized Flight of the NSFK emerged in 1938 .
On July 24, 1937, the regular service was discontinued, although it resumed briefly in 1939, but was discontinued again in August of the same year. During the Second World War , the airport was used from October 1939 to June 1943 by the pilot school A / B Plauen and A / B 7 equipped with small aircraft . After the end of the war, Soviet military aircraft of the type Polikarpow Po-2 were stationed at the airport. At the beginning of the fifties, the Soviet occupying power allowed air traffic to be carried out independently in the GDR again.
In 1952, flight operations were resumed in Chemnitz, but initially only by GST glider pilots . Civil aviation was reopened on May 3, 1958, and between 1958 and 1962, Deutsche Lufthansa of the GDR flew to the airport of the city , which has now been renamed Karl-Marx-Stadt , with aircraft of the type Antonow An-2 in regular service. After the cessation of this domestic air traffic, the area was released for development and since then the city has not achieved any importance in air traffic.
New airport in Jahnsdorf
As early as the early 1960s there were plans to build a new airport suitable for larger aircraft near Oberlichtenau , about 9 km north of Karl-Marx-Stadt. The planned location was chosen to be very easily accessible due to its proximity to the motorway and railway. However, the airport project was not carried out with reference to the unfavorable local weather conditions.
The plans to build a residential area on the airfield site on Stollberger Strasse led to the search for a new area for an airfield around 1970. Of eleven areas examined in the area around Karl-Marx-Stadt, the Jahnsdorf site was preferred. In the years from 1971 to 1977 the planning and construction of the airfield in Jahnsdorf took place. This was officially recognized in 1978 with the VI. Championships of the GDR of the Juniors and the GDR open competition of women in gliding put into operation.
The establishment of the GST Aviation School in 1980 led to a new quality of use of the airfield. Central courses for future military pilots were carried out and this new task was underlined with the award of the honorary name of the GST-Fliegerschule " Fliegerkosmonaut Sigmund Jähn " in 1982. Up until 1990, numerous training courses and competitions were held at the airfield and over 500 flight movements were achieved on peak days. From 1990 to 1992 the airfield was used by clubs. In public it was a political issue. Controversial discussions, flimsy investors and unclear ownership structures made it difficult to clarify how the space should be dealt with.
With the establishment of the Verkehrslandeplatz Chemnitz / Jahnsdorf GmbH in 1993, the task was to implement a development adapted to the new conditions based on the potential of the old system. As a result of a two-stage report by the AIRTEC company, an expansion scenario was recommended, which the Supervisory Board basically confirmed in its meeting on June 23, 1994. At the same time as the preparation of the report, however, the first measures were taken. Due to the problematic past, before 1990 there were more than 500 flight movements per day, which were handled without consideration for the surrounding population, legal action was taken against these expansion steps and the approval of the airfield was attacked in court. These legal steps, first by the affected communities and later by a citizens' initiative, initially succeeded and brought flight operations to a standstill in 1995 and 1996.
Due to this situation, the six expansion steps previously recommended have been combined. In the period from 1994 to 1996, a permit procedure was carried out to reopen the airfield. On December 16, 1996, the Dresden regional council, air traffic department, granted the Chemnitz / Jahnsdorf GmbH airfield the operating license, which enabled the old system to be used in its existing form. At the same time, an application for the expansion of the airfield was drawn up, submitted on December 20, 1998 and approved on March 24, 2000 by the Dresden Regional Council, Aviation Department. On the basis of this permit, the runway is to be expanded and reinforced over a length of 900 m, taxiways and an apron, a petrol station, an operations building and two hangars will be built. The total costs are around € 10 million.
Citizens' complaints
On December 16, 1996, the Aviation Office at the Dresden Regional Council granted permission to operate the Chemnitz / Jahnsdorf airfield. The municipalities of Leukersdorf , Adorf / Erzgeb. and some private individuals disagreed. A long-running legal dispute developed over the operating license, which the airfield opponents were subject to.
expansion
The planned construction measures (construction of a paved runway with a length of 900 m, taxiway system and apron, gas station, operations building, two hangars) are only a first step in a possible expansion scenario. The fundamental decision of the supervisory board to expand provides that the airfield has the requirements for professional business flights, that is, the most important twin-engine propeller aircraft and small jets (approx. 10 seats) can use the space. Immediately after the first step, this means an extension of the runway to 1200 m with a 200 m roll-over area each, so that 1400 m are effectively available in each direction. This measure must be carried out separately, as a piece of the state road must be relocated at the same time .
The airfield is designed in such a way that there is always room for expansion. However, further steps will only be taken if the region's economy demands this and if it is profitable.
Web links
- Homepage of the airfield
- Pictures of the airfield Chemnitz-Jahnsdorf on Flugzeugbilder.de
- Pictures from the Chemnitz-Jahnsdorf airfield on Airliners.net
- Current picture October 2015
Individual evidence
- ^ Jürgen Zapf: Luftwaffe airfields 1934-1945 - and what was left of it. Volume 2: Saxony. VDM, Zweibrücken 2002, ISBN 3-925480-62-5 , p. 46/47.
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