Reinsdorf airfield
| Reinsdorf airfield | |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | EDOD |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 102 m (335 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 1 km southwest of Reinsdorf |
| Street | B 102 , A 9 |
| Local transport | Regional express RE3, Zellendorf station, 10 km west of the square |
| Basic data | |
| operator | Airfield Reinsdorf Betriebs GmbH |
| surface | 120 ha |
| Flight movements |
Over 10,000 a year |
| Runways | |
| 10/28 (current) | 1280 m × 40 m grass |
| 11/29 (1975) | 2400 m × 80 m grass |
| (1945) | 1100 m × 900 m |
The airfield Reinsdorf is a German aerodrome in Brandenburg 1 km southwest of Reinsdorf (Municipality Niederer Fläming ) and 13 km south-east of Jueterbog . The airfield has a grass runway with a length of 1280 m. The airfield is mainly used by gliders, powered airplanes, microlights and motor gliders, occasionally also by balloons, helicopters and parachutists.
Reinsdorf airfield is located in airspace G, above it the standard airspace structure (airspace E from 2500 ft above ground, airspace C from FL 100). Two aerobatic boxes are set up north and south of the area for gliding and powered flight.
Gliding
A winch launch towing stretch of 2.6 km in length is available for gliding in the northern part, which means that high-altitude winds can be launched up to a height of over 1000 m, a special feature of only three airports in Germany (Reinsdorf, Landsberg am Lech and Rothenburg ). During normal operation, gliders are started from the center of the field, so that the take-off point is independent of the wind direction and the landing gliders can taxi straight to the start.
history
Since 1935 the airfield has been used by the Luftwaffe as a field airfield for various training units, such as the Air War School Berlin-Gatow or the Aviation School A / B 119 in Jüterbog-Damm . From 1943 onwards, parts of various fighter squadrons were refreshed, such as I./JG 76, which was relocated to Reinsdorf in mid-October 1944 and, renamed IV./JG 300 in October, was stationed here until March 1945. After the last German units had withdrawn, the site was taken on April 23 by Soviet troops from the 1st Ukrainian Front and used as a port of operations by various fighter and attack aircraft units of the 2nd Air Army in the last days of the war.
After the end of the war, Reinsdorf was used by units of the 16th Air Army of the Soviet Air Force , initially in the 1950s for short periods of time by attack aircraft units from Brandis and Altes Lager equipped with IL-10 . From 1957 an expansion took place in order to be able to use the area as a reserve airfield of the category prepared natural airfield , which is why some tank and ammunition depots were built in 1960 and the runway was temporarily paved with PSP pavement. Reinsdorf was then referred to as Werbig airfield and was given the nickname BUTON ( Russian Бутон , bud). At the time the wall was built, a mobile field hospital was built on the airfield in the summer of 1961. From 1963 to the mid-1970s , fighter pilot regiments equipped with MiG-21 were briefly stationed in Werbig , after which it was increasingly used by helicopters belonging to the GSSD Army Air Force .
After the withdrawal of the Soviet troops, Reinsdorf was declared a civilian special airfield in 1993. In 2004 it was also approached by twin-engine Transall and An-26 transport aircraft as part of a German-Polish military exercise .
In the forest adjacent to the south there are traces of military history in the form of the remains of splinter boxes.
literature
- Henrik Schulze: Jammerbock III . The Wehrmacht (1935–1945). Project and publisher Dr. Erwin Meißler, Hoppegarten OT Hönow 2016, ISBN 978-3-932566-76-9 , p. 135-138 .
- Jürgen Zapf: Airfields of the Air Force 1934–1945 - and what was left of them. Volume 1: Berlin & Brandenburg . VDM Heinz Nickel , Zweibrücken 2001, ISBN 3-925480-52-8 , p. 283-286 .
- Stefan Büttner: Red places . Russian military airfields Germany 1945–1994. Fliegerhorste – Aerodorme – Military fallow areas. Ed .: Lutz Freundt. AeroLit, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-935525-11-4 , pp. 175 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Höhenschlepps , Aero Club Berlin
- ^ Höhenschlepps , Rothenburger Luftsportverein
- ^ Reinsdorf: Airfield in the Military Airfield Directory
