Templin / Groß Dölln airfield

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Templin / Groß Dölln airfield
Gross Dölln (Brandenburg)
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Gross Dolln
Characteristics
ICAO code EDUT
Coordinates

53 ° 1 '44 "  N , 13 ° 30' 59"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 1 '44 "  N , 13 ° 30' 59"  E

Height above MSL 62 m (203  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 4.5 km north of Groß Dölln
Basic data
operator Flugplatzverwaltungsgesellschaft
Groß Dölln AG
Start-and runway
09/27 1000 m × 30 m concrete

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State 2018

The Templin / Groß Dölln airfield ( ICAO code EDUT ) was a special airfield in the Uckermark district in Brandenburg . The operator was the Flugplatz Verwaltungsgesellschaft Groß Dölln AG. At the time of its military use by the Soviet air forces from 1955 to 1994 , Templin was the largest military airfield in the GDR . The airfield has been closed since March 8, 2012.

location

The airfield is 10 km (5.4 NM ) south of the town of Templin , 4.5 km (2.4 NM) north of the town of Groß Dölln .

history

Two Su-17s of the 20th GW APIB taking off from Templin (1994)

Templin airfield was built from autumn 1952, the core construction phase lasted from 1953 to 1954 and was carried out by German workers. In addition, the architecturally striking barracks with adjoining living area and flight operations areas that are spatially separated from it were also created from scratch. Residential buildings that are unique in Germany were erected there, two-storey residential buildings in wood construction on brick basements. These buildings were demolished in the 1990s and 2012.

The first occupation took place from April to September 1955 by Il-28 front bombers. From 1956 to 1970 there were fighter pilots of the 787th Fighter Regiment with MiG-17 / 19 / 21 and Jak-25 , from 1970 to 1994 fighter -bomber pilots of the 20th Guard Fighter Bombing Regiment ( MiG-15 / 17 , Su-7 / 17 and training planes L-29 ) and from 1969 helicopter flying forces ( Mi-2 / 8 / 9 / 24 ) of the GSSD permanently stationed. A “special camp” equipped with nuclear weapons for use against targets in West Germany is said to have existed in Templin for the Soviet fighter-bombers . Other camps were set up at the Lärz , Brand, Finsterwalde and Grossenhain airfields . Strategic bombers of the type Tu-16 , Tu-22 and Tu-22M as well as transporters An-12 and An-22 were briefly stationed in Templin at irregular intervals . From 1985 to 1986 the 787th fighter regiment was in Templin, equipped with MiG-23 and MiG-25 . From 1971 the airfield served as a feeder airport for the exchange of Soviet army personnel in the GDR. It was therefore regularly flown to by Aeroflot passenger planes ( Il-18 / 62 / 76 , Tu-104 / 114 / 154 ) in May and November of that year . The LSK of the NVA received their MiG-21 fighter aircraft via the airfield, which were transferred here from the manufacturer.

The airfield was expanded widely 1987/1988, so the emergence of three new Vorstartlinien for up to 24 aircraft and a large, furnished with laid underground electricity and fuel lines space for the operation of up to 48 aircraft. In June 1994, when the Soviet armed forces withdrew, the last transport flights took place and the site was handed over to the German authorities. After that, the conversion to a cargo airport failed . A phase of partial uses followed, which was characterized by multi-year uses (e.g. building rubble recycling company), short-lived (e.g. dragster racing track) or uses that were stuck in the planning (e.g. timber house construction provider or Cargolifter station).

Current usage

Car test area on the airfield site

The Driving Center Groß Dölln GmbH is located on the site and uses around 113 hectares of the former flight operations area. Driving safety training courses are held in the Driving Center. For the driving safety training there are sometimes special road surfaces that can be watered if necessary in order to create a smooth surface. Private individuals and companies can register for the training. The BKA and the Federal Armed Forces also use some of these options. Various car manufacturers use the system for test and / or training purposes. Audi, Volkswagen and Mercedes offer their respective driver training courses there. Currently (09/2018) Siemens has its own test track on the site for testing alternative drives for trucks, especially for electrically powered vehicles with energy supply via a two-wire overhead line .

Solar system Templin / Groß Dölln

From June 5 to September 30, 2012, one of the largest solar parks in Germany with 128 MWp was built on 214 hectares of the airport site. The grid connection was implemented in April 2013.

Airfield facility

The airfield facility had the following data:

  • Direction of the runway: 090 ° / 270 ° RWN
  • Runway 1: length approx. 1000 m, width 30 m,
  • Runway 2 (cross wind): length about 2800 m, width: 45 m
  • Surface: concrete

Source: airport-regional.de

The main runway (90/270 °) had an almost unbelievable size of 3,600 mx 96 m! In addition, the replacement runway (10/190 °) alone was the size of a full-fledged military airfield. One reason for the expansion of the operational areas in the 1980s is said to have been the objective of keeping the airfield as an alternative landing site for the planned Soviet space shuttle Buran.

Approved aircraft types

The Templin / Groß Dölln special airfield was approved for take-offs and landings of the following aircraft after the fall of the Wall :

  • Aircraft up to 5.7 t maximum take-off mass (MTOW)
  • Motor sailer
  • Rotary wing aircraft (unlimited takeoff weight)
  • Special and company traffic with prior notification to the operator with unlimited take-off mass (MTOW)

literature

  • Stefan Büttner: Red places - Russian military airfields Germany 1945–1994 , AeroLit, Berlin, 2007, ISBN 978-3-935525-11-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Walter Richter: The near nuclear war . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 3, 2010, p. 6.
  2. Stefan Büttner: Soviet atomic bombs in Europe - A chapter from the cold war in Flieger Revue Extra No. 22, Möller, Berlin, 2008, pp. 30–53.
  3. ^ Corinna Schlag: The checkered history of the military airfield Groß Dölln . In: Berliner Morgenpost . April 11, 1999.
  4. Race tracks and areas. Driving Center Groß Dölln, accessed on April 13, 2020 .
  5. Martin Randelhoff: Siemens eHighway, hybrid commercial vehicles, LNG: Will road freight transport of the future be electric? From: www.zukunft-mobilitæt.de, accessed on January 18, 2015.
  6. Contaminated sites give way to rapidly growing solar parks ( memento from July 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Nordkurier from July 21, 2012
  7. Groß Dölln - once a runway for BURAN . airport-regional.de. Retrieved October 1, 2019.