Rothenburg / Görlitz airfield

Rothenburg / Görlitz airfield
Characteristics
ICAO code	EDBR
Coordinates	51 ° 21 '50 " N , 14 ° 57' 0" E Coordinates: 51 ° 21 '50 " N , 14 ° 57' 0" E
Height above MSL	158 m (518 ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	4 km north of Rothenburg (OL)
Street	P. 127
Local transport	no information
Basic data
opening	1954
operator	Flugplatz Rothenburg / Görlitz GmbH, seat: 02929 Rothenburg (OL)
surface	no information to the area in ha
Flight ; movements	estimated 8000
Runways
18/36	2500 m × 45 m asphalt
18/36	1220 m × 40 m grass

The Rothenburg / Görlitz airfield is located about four kilometers north of Rothenburg / Oberlausitz . It has two runways , a 2500 meter long asphalt runway (b = 45 m) and a 750 meter long grass runway (b = 40 m). This German airfield is located in the identification zone according to ENR 3–5 .

history

Once planned as a military airfield for the Soviet occupying forces and commissioned in 1954, the airfield served military purposes from 1954 to 1990. In 1991, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German Armed Forces declared their readiness to - initially partially - privatize the military airfield.

Military use

The air base was used from 1954 to 1956 by the group of the Soviet armed forces in Germany for the stationing of medium bombers of the type IL-28 .

From 1957 the airfield was first used by the then Aviation Technical School Kamenz , which later became the Officers' College of the Air Force / Air Defense Franz Mehring .

From January 6, 1961 to October 2, 1990, the airfield was the stationing site for the Fliegerausbildungsgeschwader 15 (FAG-15) of the officers' college for military pilots .

In 1981/82, the flight operations areas of the buildings were expanded further.

resolution

With the dissolution of the NVA in 1990, the FAG-15 and the officers' college were dissolved. Legal successors were the Bundeswehr Command East and the 5th Air Force Division . The 57 MiG-21SPS, MiG-21U, MiG-21US and MiG-21UM aircraft were decommissioned, given to museums or scrapped.

Civil use

Airport building

Since the Bundeswehr did not take over all of the NVA's military facilities, the military airfield was partially privatized from 1991.

From 1992, parts of the buildings were used for school purposes (grammar school, high school, police college ). With the settlement of aviation technology companies and a number of smaller companies and institutions, the infrastructure for an airfield could be preserved.

On January 1, 2000, Flugplatz Rothenburg / Görlitz GmbH was founded, which today operates the airfield and the smaller Görlitz airfield .

Admission

For the resumption of flight operations for general aviation at the Rothenburg / Görlitz airfield, the permits for runways for the regulation of the local Rothenburg / Görlitz flight operations I-205/92, I-206/92, I-139/99 were issued in accordance with the approval , I-140/99 granted. This airfield can now be used by aircraft up to 14.0 t take-off weight on the asphalt runway and up to 5.7 t take-off weight on the grass runway . Rotary wing aircraft , motor gliders , gliders , ultralight aircraft , ballooning , parachuting , paragliders and hang gliders are also permitted, and airships should be allowed to moor.

A special feature is the 3000 m long rope deployment route for high-altitude wind starts , with which gliders can be towed to over 1000 m (one of only three locations in Germany, together with the Reinsdorf and Landsberg am Lech airfields ).

literature

Regional plan Lower Silesia-Upper Lusatia

Web links

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