Eutingen airfield in Gaeu
| Eutingen Airport, Eutingen port of operations |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | EDTE |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 500 m (1640 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 3 km east of Eutingen |
| Street |
 6 km to the 
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| Basic data | |
| opening | August 1939 |
| operator | Flugsportverein Rottenburg-Horb eV |
| Start-and runway | |
| 06/24 | 835 m × 30 m grass |
The airfield in Eutingen Gaeu is a special airfield in the field of Eutingen im Gäu and Rottenburg am Neckar about 50 km south-west of Stuttgart . It was built in the run-up to the Second World War as a military airfield for the then Luftwaffe . A DHL logistics center was built at the airport .
history
Construction of the Eutingen deployment port began in early 1937 and lasted two and a half years. The construction costs up to April 1939 amounted to 2.23 million Reichsmarks .
After it was opened, it was classified as a "1st order operational port" and in August 1939, Jagdgeschwader 51, equipped with Bf 109E , was the first to use it in Eutingen. Group I used Eutingen from the end of August to the beginning of November 1939, followed by Group II from the end of October, which was stationed here until New Year 1940. Parallel to II./JG51 were the Bf 109Ds of the II. Group of Destroyer Squadron 76 , which at that time was designated as Jagdgruppe 176. After almost three months of rest, Eutingen became the base of Group I of JG 54 , which stayed here until the second half of May. The last task force stationed here was then III for a month . Group of Kampfgeschwader 55 , whose He 111P carried out enemy flights from here as part of the Wehrmacht's western campaign .
In the further course of the war it served as a school airfield, the future pilots were here Bü 181 , Ar 96 and Fw 58 . The area was taken by American troops in April 1945 and initially continued to be used by them. The United States Army Air Forces used Airfield R.61 , the allied code name for the airfield, from late April to early August 1945 when they handed the airfield over to the French armed forces .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b foretaste of the Eutingen airfield festival publication . In: Neckar Chronicle online . March 22, 2006 ( neckar-chronik.de [accessed June 13, 2018]).
literature
Web links
- Information on the website of the Flugsportverein Rottenburg-Horb-Eutingen eV
- Information on the website of the Flugsportgruppe Hanns Klemm Böblingen-Calw eV
- For the history of the airfield on the portal of the Neckar Chronicle
- Information on Forgotten Airfields
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