Danzig-Langfuhr airport
The Danzig-Langfuhr airfield (Polish Lotnisko Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz ) was built in 1910 in the Danzig suburb of Langfuhr as the first airfield in Gdansk.
history
The airfield was initially used exclusively for military purposes. In 1914 a second hangar "Prince of Prussia" was built at the crossing between the Labensweg railway line and set up as a flying school. In 1915, the Imperial Navy established a single-seater combat school for fighter pilots .
After the end of the First World War, the military importance declined and the area was expanded by the city of Gdansk for civil use. The DLR ( Danziger Luft-Reederei ) was created. As a result of the expansion, the airfield had an area of 1700 × 1400 meters and was located near the Langfuhr – Sopot railway line . The ground at that time was covered with a firm sward of grass. After initially being used for short distances, the airfield developed into an international airport for flights between Germany and Russia after 1920 . Was active u. a. the Deruluft (German-Russian aviation company).
The airfield soon had scheduled flights to
- Allenstein (Deuthen),
- Berlin ( Tempelhof ),
- Breslau ( Schöngarten ),
- Elbing ( Neustädterfeld ),
- Insterburg ,
- Königsberg ( Devau ),
- Lviv ( Skniłów ),
- Leningrad ( Pulkovo ),
- Marienburg ( Königsdorf ),
- Moscow ( Chodynka Field ),
- Stettin ( Altdamm ),
- Stockholm ( Bromma ),
- Stolp ( Reitz ),
- Warsaw ( Mokotów ).
In the years 1922 to 1935 the number of passengers was around 1500 passengers a year.
The following table shows a list of selected active air units (excluding school and supplementary units) of the Air Force that were stationed here between 1939 and 1945.
| From | To | unit | equipment |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 1939 | September 1939 | II./ZG 1 (II. Group of Destroyer Squadron 1) | Messerschmitt Bf 109E |
| January 1945 | March 1945 | I., IV./JG 51 (I. and IV. Group of Jagdgeschwader 51) | Messerschmitt Bf 109G |
| January 1945 | February 1945 | I./NJG 100 | Junkers Ju 88G-6 |
After the Germans were expelled from Gdansk in 1946, Langfuhr Airport was renamed Wrzeszcz Airport. In 1974 Gdansk got a new airport called Gdansk Airport 16 kilometers west of the city (also outside the former area of the Free City of Gdansk ) . This replaced Langfuhr ( Wrzeszcz ).
The airport was closed in the same year and the airfield was rededicated for residential development.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Luftwaffe Airfields 1935-45 Germany (1937 Borders) , pp. 114–115 , accessed on September 12, 2014
Coordinates: 54 ° 23 ′ 48 ″ N , 18 ° 36 ′ 14 ″ E