Neumünster airfield
| Neumünster airfield | |
|---|---|
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | EDHN |
| IATA code | EUM |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 22 m (72 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 4 km west of Neumünster |
| Street | Baumschulenweg |
| train | Neumünster station |
| Basic data | |
| opening | around 1953 |
| operator | Aviation Club Neumünster |
| Terminals | 1 |
| Runways | |
| 08/26 | 600 m × 15 m asphalt |
| 01/19 | 485 m × 40 m grass |
The airfield Neumünster is an airfield west of Schleswig-Holstein City Neumünster . It is run by the Flugsportclub Neumünster e. V. operated. On the site there is a glider hangar , a hangar from the Second World War, a filling station with SuperPlus, diesel and oil and the tower .
Admission
The airfield is approved for all helicopters , motor gliders , gliders and ultralight aircraft , balloons , airships , parachutists and model aircraft up to 5700 kg weight. The model airfield is located on the southern side of the field.
history
The Weser Exercise company began in April 1940 . The airfields in Schleswig-Holstein (e.g. Uetersen and Neumünster airfields ) played an important role. In Neumünster, mountain troops and other infantry formations were brought together from April 2, and then from April 9, 1940 they were flown to Narvik and Oslo-Fornebu . For this purpose the 'Combat Group for Special Use 102' (with JU 52) and the 'Combat Group for Special Use 107' (with JU 90 and G 38) were relocated to Neumünster. At the beginning of the western campaign , the I. Group of Lehrgeschwader 2 was here. In April 1944, the airfield was attacked for the first time by US low-flying aircraft. British troops occupied the undamaged airfield on May 4, 1945. On this day, the more than a thousand forced laborers from all parts of Europe who worked for 'Land und See GmbH' in Neumünster were freed. On the evening of May 4, 1945, Hans-Georg von Friedeburg surrendered to British Field Marshal Montgomery on behalf of the last Reich President Karl Dönitz near Lüneburg ; this was the de facto end of all fighting in northern Germany, Denmark, Norway and the northern Netherlands (that is, the vast majority of the territory that was still held by German troops at the time).
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 |
|---|---|---|
| August 1939 | November 1939 | III./ZG 26 (III. Group of Destroyer Squadron 27) |
| September 1939 | October 1939 | Staff, II./JG 77 (Staff and II. Group of Jagdgeschwader 77) |
| March 1940 | May 1940 | I. (Jagd) / LG 2 (I. (Jagd-) Gruppe of Lehrgeschwader 2) |
| November 1939 | February 1940 | II./ZG 1 |
| February 1940 | March 1940 | II./KG 26 |
| July 1941 | July 1941 | 2./JG 51 |
| May 1943 | June 1943 | III./JG 11 |
| April 1945 | May 1945 | I./KG 66 |
In 1950 part of the airfield had to give way to the newly built Böcklersiedlung .
Others
At the end of the 1930s, a dummy airfield was set up in Kleinkummerfeld . Its purpose was to divert the interest of enemy reconnaissance planes from Neumünster. Neumünster with its extensive textile industry, the large Reichsbahn repair shop and the airfield was considered a worthwhile destination.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from August 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The surrender on the Timeloberg (pdf, 16. S .; 455 kB)
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45 Germany (1937 Borders) , accessed on August 29, 2014.
- ↑ Marianne Dwars, Dr. Klaus Fahrner, Bärbel Nagar (Ed.): Neumünster Lexikon. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2003, ISBN 3-529-01711-6 , p. 40.
- ↑ www.luftfahrtspuren.de
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