Kętrzyn-Wilamowo Airport
| Ketrzyn Wilamowo Airport | |||
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| Characteristics | |||
| ICAO code | EPKE | ||
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| Height above MSL | 149 m (489 ft ) | ||
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| Distance from the city center | 18 km west of Mikołajki, 3.8 km southwest of Kętrzyn |
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| 15/33 | 1100 m of grass | ||
| 17/35 | 700 m of grass | ||
The Kętrzyn Wilamowo Airport ( German Rastenburg ) is a historically significant airport in Poland . It is located approx. 3.8 km southeast of Kętrzyn , 18 km west of Mikołajki ( German Nikolaiken ) in the center of the Masurian Lake District .
history
Gut Wilhelmsdorf was a Vorwerk of the Carlshöfer Anstalten , which had to be sold in 1934. From 1935 a sports airfield was built. In the course of the establishment of the Wolfsschanze headquarters , the airfield's runway was extended in 1941. The shape of an X still exists today.
On February 8, 1942, Fritz Todt , the founder of the military-organized construction team Organization Todt , had a fatal accident here in a crash. Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg used the airfield during the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 for both the outward and the return flight.
Since June 11, 1973 the Kętrzyński Aeroclub has been based here. In 1976 the Technical College for Agricultural Mechanization, specializing in agricultural flight , was established in Karolewo . In 1998 the airport was sold to a private investor.
Hitler's air travel from Wolfsschanze
Hitler used the airport on:
- August 3, 1941 - by plane to Army Group South , the city of Borisov and return to Wolfsschanze airport on the same day.
- August 6, 1941 - to Uman , meeting with Marshal Ion Antonescu
- December 2, 1941 - to Poltava , consultations with Army Group South
- July 1, 1942 - to Poltava and back the same day.
- July 3, 1942 - to Poltava, accompanied by General Franz Halder and return the same day.
The travel time to Poltava, one way, took 3 hours and 40 minutes.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Boris Böhm, Hagen Markwardt, Ulrich Rottleb: "Will be transferred to a state sanatorium and nursing home in Saxony today" - the murder of East Prussian patients in the National Socialist killing center in Pirna-Sonnenstein in 1941 . Ed .: Leipziger Universitätsverlag. 2015, ISBN 978-3-86583-976-3 , pp. 41 ff .