Airfield possibly
The airfield Mötzig in Halle (Saale) was built in 1916 as a military airfield of the Aviation Department 14 of the Imperial Army (120 aircraft for pilot training) and existed until it was closed in 1919.
From 1934 to 1937 the airfield west of Mötzig was used as the location of the Klemm-Flugzeugwerke Halle (branch of Leichtflugzeugbau Klemm in Böblingen ) and in December 1937 Friedrich Siebel equipped it with large workshops and made it the main plant of his Siebel Flugzeugwerke . During the Second World War, Siebel Flugzeugwerke was repeatedly the target of Allied bombing attacks and was completely destroyed along with the airfield on March 30, 1945.
On the site of the former airfield, there is now a car dealership , a gas station , a dog club and the remains of the aircraft factory.
At the “Frohe Zukunft” tram terminus, a memorial commemorates the horrors that took place during the Second World War with all prisoners in the Birkhahn subcamp as workers in the aircraft war industry.
swell
- Osterloh, Albert: Chronicle Mötzig 2012. arr. by E. Beck, H. Bringezu, G. Klein, O. Lilienthal, D. Lücke,
- A. Osterloh, A. Sames, H. Tauchnitz. epubli Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-8442-2633-1
- Aviation history interest group in the Aviation Association of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): Documentation of the 90-year history of aviation and air sports in the Halle (Saale) region, 1997
- Jacob, Dr. Klaus, own memory as the son of the "Siebelaner" designer Herbert Jacob †
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 57 ″ N , 12 ° 0 ′ 44 ″ E