Constance airfield
Constance airfield |
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| Characteristics | |||
| ICAO code | EDTZ | ||
| IATA code | QKZ | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Height above MSL | 397 m (1302 ft ) | ||
| Transport links | |||
| Distance from the city center | 4 km northwest of Konstanz | ||
| Street | Bundesstrasse 33 / Reichenaustrasse | ||
| train | Seehas | ||
| Local transport | City bus lines 6, 11, 13, 15 | ||
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| opening | 1910 | ||
| operator | Flughafengesellschaft Konstanz GmbH | ||
| Start-and runway | |||
| 12/30 | 760 m × 50 m grass | ||
The airfield Konstanz is located northwest of the Baden-Württemberg town of Konstanz . The airport operator is the Flughafengesellschaft Konstanz GmbH. Motor , ultralight and glider operations take place in Constance , but no scheduled services . Resident companies and associations are KONAIR Flugbetriebs-GmbH, Ultraleichtflug Konstanz GmbH, Segelfluggruppe Konstanz e. V., the club of aviators, as well as the local branch of Konstanz in the German Amateur Radio Club e. V.
Transport links
Direct connection to Autobahn 81 to the end in Markelfingen via the B 33 in the direction of Konstanz / Switzerland. To the northeast of the square is the Konstanz-Wollmatingen stop of the S-Bahn-like Seehas . City bus lines 6, 11, 4/13, 13/4 and 15 stop at the Byk-Guldenstraße , Ried / Reichenaustraße and Wollmatingen train stations near the east end of the square .
history
In January 1910, the first airfield was opened in Constance. In 1919 Konstanz was the first southern German city with regular public passenger flights to Berlin , and later to Munich and Stuttgart . The number of passengers in 1923 was twelve times as high as two years earlier. Constance developed into a "main traffic base" for the future air traffic network. From 1925 to 1940, Deutsche Lufthansa operated a scheduled flight between Konstanz and Frankfurt am Main .
According to statistics from the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior, the airfield recorded 2,631 take-offs and landings in 1960 and 5,401 in 1962. With 105 percent, the highest percentage increase in all of Baden-Württemberg was achieved.
In November 1965 it was moved to its current location.
closure
The airfield has been threatened with closure several times. In 2011, this was discussed in the local council , a new industrial park should be built on the area . However, there was still a lot of vacancy in the city, so it was not closed and in 2012 the lease was extended to 2017 with an option for a further five years. At the end of 2014, the city of Konstanz wanted to update the old commercial space development concept. For this purpose, an expert opinion was commissioned from an urban development office, but this has been criticized. This recommends that the airfield be closed and the grassy area converted into a commercial area. The city of Konstanz is the majority owner of Flughafen Konstanz GmbH. For its part, it can terminate the contract with twelve months' notice to the end of the year.
In 2015 there was a petition for the preservation of the airfield. She had reached the quorum with 11,397 votes for receipt, 1,617 of them from Constance.
At the beginning of 2016, the municipal council wants to decide on an extension or termination of the lease.
Incidents
- On June 26, 2010, a Pützer Elster C ( aircraft registration D-EDIQ ) crashed while taking off from Konstanz airfield, killing the two occupants. The aircraft from the Bottrop Aviation Association was on its way to the Dinslaken / Schwarze Heide airfield .
literature
- Patrick Oelze: The short dream of the international airport on Lake Constance. Konstanzer Luftverkehr in the 20s and 30s , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 120th year 2002, pp. 265–296 ( digitized version )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chronicle. of the airfield. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 3, 2013 ; Retrieved May 2, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Stefan Willeke: “The technocracy movement in North America and Germany between the world wars”, Lang 1995, p. 190
- ↑ Heimat-Chronik . In: HEGAU - magazine for history, folklore and natural history of the area between the Rhine, Danube and Lake Constance. Issue 1 (17) 1964, page 156
- ↑ Konstanz airfield: Aviator doubts commercial concept
- ↑ Eternal tug-of-war around the Konstanz airfield
- ↑ Pro Konstanzer Flugplatz on openpetition.de , accessed on August 4, 2016
- ↑ Airfield should give way to business
- ↑ Two deaths when a powered aircraft crashed in Konstanz ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Accident report Elster D-EDIQ , Aviation Safety Network WikiBase (English), accessed on April 3, 2017.
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