Sinsheim airfield
| Sinsheim special airfield | |||
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| ICAO code | EDTK | ||
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| Height above MSL | 158 m (518 ft ) | ||
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| Distance from the city center | 1 km southeast of Sinsheim | ||
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| opening | 1932 | ||
| operator | Flugsportring Kraichgau e. V. | ||
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| 12/30 | 1022 m × 30 m grass | ||
The Sinsheim airfield is a special airfield and is located between the town of Sinsheim ( Baden-Württemberg ) in the west, its district of Rohrbach in the northeast and Steinsfurt in the southeast, "Wiesental" in the broad left floodplain of the Elsenz . It is operated by the air sports club Flugsportring Kraichgau eV Sinsheim . The place is approved for gliders , motor gliders , microlights and powered aircraft with a maximum take-off weight of up to 1.2 tons.
terrain
The runway of the special landing site has a length of 1022 m with an orientation of 12/30 and a south round square . The grass runway is used for powered flight operations and as a towing route for the winch launch of gliders . In addition to the main runway, there is a separate runway for gliding at both ends of the field.
The flying area is also approved for motor gliders and a towing machine. Take-offs and landings of motorized aircraft are only permitted to a limited extent by the board of directors because of the nearby health center of the Rhein-Neckar district and also with regard to the residents.
The Wiesental also serves as a local recreation area for the Sinsheim population. In 2001 the association received the "Blue Flag for glider airfields" for its environmental initiatives. The glider airfield also serves as a flood retention basin and is used and flooded as a retention area in the event of a flood . An embankment is located near the hangar and is used as access to the airfield.
history
The site was ready for use as an emergency landing site for the Luftwaffe during World War II . Military aircraft were stationed there several times during the last months of the war . After the war, farmers in the three neighboring towns plowed up most of the meadows so that they could be used as agricultural fields. After the Allies approved gliding in 1951, three groups of glider pilots emerged in Sinsheim, Waibstadt and Neckarbischofsheim. The first flight days were organized and successfully carried out. In February 1953, the glider pilots united and founded the "Flugsportring Kraichgau" from the three local groups. The few pieces of land remaining as meadows were used to take off and land the gliders on the winch, which was usually only possible in spring and autumn outside the growth phase. In the summer months, people flew to neighboring places or at the Klippeneck in the Swabian Alb . In the years 1960 to 1964 the association erected the first building in the Sinsheimer Wiesental. A small aircraft hangar was created with a workshop, club room, kitchen, flight control and model making workshop.
Furthermore, only very limited flight operations were possible with the consent of the property owners or leaseholders, which is why today's glider flying site was created as a sports facility between 1968 and 1972 with the help of the Sinsheim district. To this end, around 50 farmers exchanged their properties with a church institution. The entire required area of approx. 17 hectares could then be leased in one piece from the only new owner. In the autumn of 1971 the entire area was plowed, and in the spring of 1972 it was leveled and sown. During the growth phase, the glider pilots moved to the Mülben glider airfield in the Hohen Odenwald.
In September 1972, the new airfield with an approximately 1,000 meter long runway was put into operation with a flight day. The take-off and landing numbers increased significantly.
The originally around 50 members have grown to around 230 today, and the number of aircraft has increased from then three to eleven today, gliders, a motor glider, a double drum winch and a towing machine. Several hangars, an equipment hangar and a number of hangars for glider trailers were built. Today there are also two workshop rooms, a model flight room, an office room with flight control, a classroom, the modernized flyer's cloister with ancillary rooms and a tank system. There is also an outdoor area with a playground , barbecue area and a few RV parking spaces . In addition to the club's own aircraft, two other motor gliders and around 15 private gliders owned by members are stored in the halls.
In 2003/2004, the Elsenztal flood protection association converted the western part of the airfield with a dam into a flood retention basin, as in previous years floods from the Elsenz river or the Ilvesbach, which flows a little downstream from the left edge of the river , had flooded parts of the town of Sinsheim. The access from the halls to the airfield is through an automatic gate that can be closed in the event of flooding. The system was put into operation in 2004.
Web links
- Website of the Flugsportring Kraichgau eV Sinsheim
literature
- Siegfried Daubenschmidt: 100 years of aviation, 85 gliding and 60 years of Flugsportring Kraichgau eV Sinsheimer Geschichtsblätter 4th Association of Friends of Sinsheimer Geschichte eV, 2015, p. 138-159 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ AIP VFR, Deutsche Flugsicherung, 2018
- ^ Sinsheim airfield. Flugsportring Kraichgau, accessed on April 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Information "BLUE FLAG EUROPE" ( Memento of 19 September 2005 at the Internet Archive ), accessed 17 August 2010
- ↑ In Sinsheim in 1945 the Allies encountered bitter resistance. Article in the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , April 2, 2015, accessed on April 10, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c story. Flugsportring Kraichgau, accessed on April 10, 2018 .
- ^ HWS Technologie GmbH: Sinsheim flood retention basin , accessed on August 17, 2010
- ↑ Zweckverband flood protection catchment area Elsenz-Schwarzbach: Protection systems of the Zweckverband - Sinsheim, HRB Wiesentalpolder S 63 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 17, 2010
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