Husum-Narrenthal Airport
| Husum-Narrenthal Airport, Schauendahl port |
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| Height above MSL | 13 m (43 ft ) | ||
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| Distance from the city center | 2.5 km north of Husum | ||
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| opening | 193x? | ||
| closure | July 1945 | ||
| operator | City of Husum, Air Force | ||
| Runways | |||
| 12/30 | 1300 m of concrete | ||
| 16/34 | 1300 m of concrete | ||
| 07/25 | 1800 m of concrete | ||
The former Husum-Narrenthal airfield was the Husum airfield in Schleswig-Holstein between the two world wars . It was about two and a half kilometers north of the city center of Husum, partly in the Horstedter municipality and east of the former trunk road to Niebüll .
In the mid-1930s, the Luftwaffe took it over and expanded it into a larger military airfield . After the war, the Julius-Leber barracks was built here . Today's civil airfield Husum-Schwesing was built further outside of today's Husum city area.
history
The Narrenthal airfield near Husum already existed in the 1930s. The airfield had no paved runway and had an aircraft hangar. In the last period of its civil use there was a flight connection to Berlin-Tempelhof .
Husum-Narrenthal Air Base
The airfield was taken over by the newly established Luftwaffe in 1937 and received three concrete runways. The air base was equipped with heated hangars to make it easier for aircraft to take off in the winter months. Various maintenance halls existed in the center.
In the spring of 1940, the Husum-Narrenthal Air Base or the Schauendahl port was completed to such an extent that it was used as a stopover for flights to and from Scandinavia during the so-called Weser exercise .
In the summer of 1941, from mid-July to early September, Husum was the base of the 1st squadron of Jagdgeschwader 1 (1./JG 1), a Bf 109 squadron. For a long time from the beginning of April 1943 to the end of February 1994, Husum was the port of operation for the Bf 109G of the I. Group of Jagdgeschwader 11 (I./JG 11). In addition, from October 1943 to March 1944 there were some Fw 190A from the staff of JG 11.
From 1944 onwards there were more and more night raids by the Royal Air Force Bomber Command . The I. Group of Jagdgeschwader 2 (I./JG 2) equipped with Fw 190A was stationed here from July to August 1944 and in the following winter of 1944/45 a detachment He 111 of the I. Group was located here from December 1944 to March 1945 of Kampfgeschwader 53 (I./KG 53).
In the last days of the war, Husum was the last home of the II. Group of Jagdgeschwader 400 (II./JG 400) in May 1945 , the only interceptor unit in the world that was equipped with rocket fighters, it flew the Me 163 . In Husum, one of the last operational air bases in the last weeks of the war, at the end of the war there were very many German aircraft that had flown here.
At the end of the war, the British Royal Air Force continued to use the airfield, which the Allies referred to as Airfield B.172 , for a short time. At the turn of the month of June / July 1945 , the 125th Wing of the British Air Force of Occupation (BAFO), coming from Kastrup , was here for three weeks , which was disbanded there a few days after its relocation to Lübeck . This included three squadrons equipped with Spitfire Mk. XIV , the 41st , 137th and 350th Squadron , the latter was a "Belgian" squadron that still exists today as part of the Belgian air component .
The facilities were demolished in 1946.
Todays use
The barracks area of the Wehrmacht air base was later used by the German armed forces. The Julius-Leber barracks still exist today. The former flight operations areas to the north are still largely undeveloped and serve as a training area.
Web links
- Excerpt from the flight manual from 1932
- Information about Narrenthal airfield on forgotten airfields