Lachen-Speyerdorf airfield
| Lachen-Speyerdorf airfield | |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | EDRL |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 120 m (394 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 5 km southeast of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse |
| Street | A 65 , B 39 |
| train | without train connection ( Neustadt Hbf. 5 km) |
| Local transport | Through the local road 540 |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1913 |
| operator | Flugplatzgemeinschaft Lilienthal e. V. |
| surface | 70 ha |
| Start-and runway | |
| 11/29 | 1000 m × 30 m grass |
The airfield Laugh Speyerdorf airfield in the district Laugh Speyerdorf the independent city Neustadt an der Weinstraße ( Rheinland-Pfalz ).
Geographical location
The Lachen-Speyerdorf airfield extends on the eastern edge of the dual community, which was independent until 1969, on the Speyerdorf district from northwest to southeast. The entire area is about 1,600 m long and up to 600 m wide, the area is 70 hectares. In the north-west the residential development borders, in the north-east the Speyerbach , to the south-east and south-west run irrigation ditches whose water is derived from the Speyerbach.
The airfield is located at an average height of 120 m above sea level. MSL a few kilometers from the federal highway 65 ( Ludwigshafen - Karlsruhe ) or the federal highway 39 ( Neustadt - Speyer ), which crosses west of Lachen-Speyerdorf at junction 13 (Neustadt an der Weinstrasse-Süd) of the A 65.
In the district, Flugplatzstraße and Lilienthalstraße point to the airfield from which they run in the northwest and northeast.
Other airfields in the vicinity are z. B. Bad Dürkheim airfield (16 km), Speyer airfield (18 km) and Mannheim airfield (27 km).
history
The airfield was built from 1912 and opened as Lilienthal airfield in 1913; it was named after the aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal . In 1917, during the First World War , the site was expropriated by the Bavarian military government and served as a German military airfield until the end of the war in 1918 . After that, the facility was confiscated by the French occupying forces, who used it as a French military airfield until 1930. After the return to Germany, the Zeppelin LZ 127 “Graf Zeppelin” landed on July 20, 1930 . The major regional event was largely due to Daniel Meininger , a Neustadt print shop owner who was then 1st chairman of the Neustadt a. d. Haardt was.
From 1931 to 1945, when there was an air raid police station there, the airfield was again used for military purposes by Germany, and for about ten years after the Second World War by the French occupying forces . In 1955, France permitted the use of the airfield by glider pilots from the Neustadt aviation club as part of the flight operations of the military aero club of the French armed forces, while motorized flight was still prohibited for German pilots. In 1961 the airfield was again approved as a public civil airfield. The owner and operator is the Flugsportverein Neustadt / Weinstr. e. V., The basis is a lease agreement concluded with the Federal Finance Administration with the consent of the High Command of the French Armed Forces FFA.
In 1965 the airfield community Lilienthal was founded, which entered into the contracts with the Federal Finance Administration and the State Ministry for Economics and Transport. Since the airfield community could not provide personnel or financial resources, the management, operation and maintenance of the airfield were already taken over in 1961 by the Neustadt aviation club with the help of the other aviation clubs there - Neustadt parachute club and Kaiserslautern aviation club at the time. On December 9, 1994, Friedel Renker signed the notarial purchase contract with Notar Fuchs in Neustadt as the first chairman of the Neustadt aviation club. The Flugsportverein Neustadt thus acquired the airfield. Since then, it has acted as the state performance center of Rhineland-Palatinate gliding and is always the venue for glider competitions up to German championships, in 2007 and 2018 also for the German championships for women.
The centenary of the airfield took place on September 1 and 2, 2012. From a mathematical point of view, however, the celebration concerned the start of construction and not the commissioning.
business
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The airfield is managed by the Flugplatzgemeinschaft Lilienthal e. V. operated. It consists of the regional associations
- Flugsportverein Neustadt e. V.
- Flugsportverein Kaiserslautern e. V.
- Skydiving club Neustadt / Weinstraße e. V.
The airfield is approved for aircraft up to a weight of 3 tons, with an exemption also up to 5.7 tons.
Web links
- Location of the airfield on: Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
- Flugsportverein Neustadt e. V.
- Flugsportverein Kaiserslautern e. V.
- Skydiving club Neustadt / Weinstraße e. V.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
- ↑ a b Zeppelin landing in the liberated Palatinate on July 20, 1930. Hekma Verlag Maikammer, accessed on April 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Timeline. Lachen-Speyerdorf district, accessed on June 14, 2012 (menu item History ).
- ^ Ministry of Economics and Transport Rhineland-Palatinate : Approval document VK III-181/11 / 10-1480 / 61 . Mainz 1961.
- ↑ lease 2909.4B VV-0020/9/7-B IV . 1961.
- ↑ 100 years Lachen-Speyerdorf airfield. (No longer available online.) RPR1 , September 1, 2012, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on June 16, 2015 .
