Neuhardenberg airfield
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| ICAO code | EDON |
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| Height above MSL | 11 m (36 ft ) |
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| Distance from the city center | 2 km north of Neuhardenberg, 55 km east of Berlin |
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| operator | Airport Berlin-Neuhardenberg GmbH |
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| 08/26 | 2400 m × 50 m concrete |
The special airfield Neuhardenberg is the airfield of the place Neuhardenberg east of Berlin . It is located in the district of Märkisch-Oderland .
history
1930s and World War II
The construction of the Neuhardenberg airfield began in 1934 as a secret military airfield . At the time of National Socialism , the first rocket engines from the Heinkel works were tested here in 1937 . The airport was also used as a military base. From November 1939 to July 1944, this was the location of the Fürstenwalde pilot school, which ran pilot training on multi-engine aircraft such as the Do 17 , Do 23 , Ju 52 , Ju 86 and He 111 . During the attack on Poland , II./KG 27 “Boelcke” most likely used the site as a port of operations. Towards the end of the war , 1. (F) / 122 (reconnaissance group 122) moved to Neuhardenberg at the end of November 1944 and flew missions against the Soviet troops with Ju 88D reconnaissance units until the beginning of February 1945 . From January 23 to February 2, 1945 the III./JG 11 was in place. On April 17, 1945, the Red Army took the place and immediately used it as a front airfield during the Berlin operation . The existing buildings, including an aircraft hangar, were demolished after the end of the war on behalf of SMAD and the site was handed over to the German authorities.
The following table shows a list of selected active flying units (excluding school and supplementary units) of the Wehrmacht Air Force that were stationed here between 1939 and 1945.
| From | To | unit |
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| September 1939 | October 1939 | II./KG 27 (II. Group of Kampfgeschwader 27) |
| September 1944 | September 1944 | I./KG 53 |
| September 1944 | October 1944 | I./KG 2 |
| January 1945 | January 1945 | III./JG 11 ( III.Group of Jagdgeschwader 11) |
Post-war period and NVA use
In 1957 the village, which had been called Marxwalde since 1949, became a garrison site for the NVA , and the airfield was also expanded. In March 1959, the GDR government flying squadron ( Transportfliegergeschwader 44 , TG-44) was relocated to Marxwalde . The machines were guarded by their armed crews or units of the MfS 24 hours a day. In June 1969 the helicopter chain of the TG-44 equipped with Mi-8 also came to Neuhardenberg.
In 1960 the Jagdfliegergeschwader 8 (JG-8) was relocated from Preschen airfield to Neuhardenberg. For this squadron there was an outdoor facility on the Dolgensee lake to the west on an area of 6.9 hectares. In addition, there was a 2800 m point (navigation point for radio navigation ) and a radio transmitter for the GDR government relay TG-44 on the lake . The combination of the JG-8 fighter planes stationed at the site and the TG-44 passenger planes was accompanied by an extremely extensive range of radio navigation equipment for GDR military airfields. In the 1980s, the field had a Soviet type RSBN radio beacon and two non-directional radio beacons were located in each of the two approach directions (GDR terminology: long -range radio beacon , local radio beacon ). In the approach direction 26 there was also the landing system PRMG and an instrument landing system ILS according to the ICAO standard. Air traffic control was able to use a panoramic radar and a precision approach radar . The military call sign was BERGBAU.
After the end of the GDR, the Bundeswehr was stationed here with the Lufttransportgeschwader 65 from 1990 to 1993 , which used the airfield during the flood of the Oder in 1997 as the base for the transport helicopters. The place Marxwalde got its old name Neuhardenberg back in 1991. After the Bundeswehr left, the airport was privatized.
On July 6, 2004, a flight connection Neuhardenberg - Kraków (Poland) was started, which was aimed primarily at business travelers and was to be operated by Private Wings Flugcharter GmbH . This connection was discontinued a few months later.
operator
The airfield is operated by Airport Development A / S and its subsidiary, Airport Berlin-Neuhardenberg GmbH .
Airlines and Destinations
With the exception of a very short period in 2004 (destination: Krakow), there have not yet been any scheduled flights.
Location and expansion
The airfield is located north of Neuhardenberg between the district of Quappendorf and Lake Kietz .
Future of the airfield
Since 2003 the airport operator has been working together with the citizens' initiative “Pro Flughafen Neuhardenberg”, which is supported by large parts of the affected population, to reactivate the airport and classify it as a commercial airfield . After obtaining the operating license, the low-cost airline Ryanair should start from here .
The approval of the expansion to the airfield was refused on November 6, 2003 for the airfield previously classified as "Neuhardenberg Special Airfield" by the state government of Brandenburg because they would oppose the "state development program for the expansion of Schönefeld ". Independently of this, various Brandenburg state politicians from all parliamentary groups represented in the state parliament have spoken out in favor of approving the Neuhardenberg expansion, pointing out that no public capital is required for the private airport.
The country's official rejection followed on April 2, 2004, against which the operator filed a lawsuit.
On July 15, 2004 it became known that the airline Ryanair had given the airport an ultimatum and would abandon the plan to settle in Neuhardenberg if it did not become clear by September 2004 at the latest that the airport could be used.
In February 2007, the operating company of the airport went bankrupt. On November 9, 2007, a purchase agreement was signed with a Danish investor group and their Airport Development A / S ; so the airfield was transferred to them.
Since February 2009, Uwe Hädicke has been the authorized representative / COO on the part of the Danish owner with the management of the Neuhardenberg airfield.
Solar park on the airfield site
On September 30, 2012, the largest solar park in Germany with an installed capacity of 145 MW was built on an area of 200 hectares at the airport . 600,000 solar modules were assembled by up to 2,000 workers within 5 weeks. The grid connection was implemented in March 2013.
Battery storage system on the airfield site
In 2015, a lithium-ion iron phosphate battery with a capacity of 5 megawatts and which can store 5 MWh of energy was built in a 350 m² former aircraft hangar on the airfield site. This is intended to help compensate for short-term network fluctuations and takes part in the marketing of primary control energy. The system was implemented in a modular container design.
Technical specifications
The following aircraft are permitted on the airfield: powered aircraft, helicopters , motor gliders , gliders , balloons , microlights and parachutists . The approach with larger aircraft would be possible, but is currently only permitted by the responsible state ministry in special situations. Scheduled flights, for example with a Boeing 737, would not be permitted at the moment.
literature
- Thomas Bussmann: Reinforced concrete, grass and railway lights - the airfields used by the military in the GDR . MediaScript, Cottbus / Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814822-0-1 .
- Jürgen Zapf: Airfields of the Air Force 1934–1945 - and what was left of them . tape 1 . Berlin & Brandenburg. VDM , Zweibrücken 2001, ISBN 3-925480-52-8 .
Web links
- historical overview map of Marxwalde / Neuhardenberg airfield
- Airport Neuhardenberg, Airport Development A / S
Individual evidence
- ^ Stefan Büttner: Red places: Russian military airfields in Germany 1945-1994 . Aerolit, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-935525-11-4 , pp. 106 .
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45 Germany (1937 Borders) , accessed on August 29, 2014
- ↑ Jürgen Ast, Dirk Kühlow: Honeckers "Air Force One" - The GDR government aircraft . TV documentary
- ↑ Neuhardenberg / Marxwalde Airfield (NVA LSK / LV JG-8, TG-44). Military Airfield Directory. Cold War airfields; Facilities section .
- ↑ Communications Office. Jagdfliegergeschwader 8, NVA.
- ↑ Directory 012 - Flight navigation information of the airfields of the NVA and the border troops of the GDR , Command of the Air Force and Air Defense 1989 (Secret classified document C1 184 400)
- ↑ Ryanair threatens Neuhardenberg to withdraw . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 15, 2004
- ↑ tagesspiegel.de
- ↑ neuhardenberg.org ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ solarserver.de ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ airport-ost.de ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ^ After mega-park comes mega-battery Märkische Oderzeitung, July 10, 2014
