Aviation Museum Laatzen-Hannover

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Aviation Museum entrance
MiG-21 in Laatzen as an advertisement for the aviation museum

The Aviation Museum Laatzen-Hannover is a permanent exhibition in Laatzen on the history of aviation . 36 aircraft, 673 aircraft models as well as 30 piston engines and jet engines are exhibited on 3,500 m² of exhibition space.

The special attractions of the exhibition include, among others, an original Jumo 004 A jet engine, which is very rare today , a walk-in partial fuselage of a Ju 52, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 , a Messerschmitt Bf 109 and a Spitfire . A MiG-15 and a Starfighter from the post-war period are on display.

The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

history

The entrepreneur Günter Leonhardt was already interested in gliding when he was a teenager and volunteered for the Air Force. After the Second World War, Günter Leonhardt and the Jewish businessman Karl Nelke set up the Nelke forwarding company based in Laatzen, which he later became the owner of. Aviation was his passion and he built up a large collection. For this he had several Ju-52s recovered from a Norwegian lake in the Arctic Circle, which had sunk there around 1940. In 1992, he transferred some of his collection to the Aviation Museum Laatzen-Hannover, which was located on the company's own shipping premises. The shipping company was sold in 1994.
On April 11, 2013, the Aviation Museum Laatzen-Hannover, the Aeronauticum in Nordholz, the Helicopter Museum in Bückeburg and the Ju-52 Museum in Wunstorf joined forces to form the “Association of Lower Saxony Aviation Museums ”.

Type of presentation

Visitors can take a close look at the exhibits, some of which are accessible. There are panels with the most important data for the individual exhibits. The presentation of aviation history is the central theme of the museum. The exhibition is structured chronologically. It begins with the representation of the ascent of the Montgolfier brothers' first hot air balloon in 1783 and ends with the revival of civil aviation during the Cold War.

Exhibits

Civil and military aircraft are on display. In addition to the aircraft collection, there are numerous items of daily use, such as B. Vehicles and clothing that are currently assigned to aircraft. Other focal points of the exhibition are: the early days of aviation, daring pilots, the rescue of the Ju 52 at the Arctic Circle, the history of gliding and women in aviation.

Lilienthal normal sailing apparatus in the exhibition section "Pioneers of Peaceful Aviation".
Replica of a Rieseler R III / 22

Planes

helicopter

Aircraft engine BMW 801 A
8.8 cm FlaK 36

Others

Fonts

  • Rainer Göpfert, Karl Kössler , Günter Leonhardt: The Aviation Museum in Hanover-Laatzen. Technical development and history under one roof , A4 brochure with around 83 richly illustrated pages, Ronnenberg: Josef Grütter printer, undated

See also

literature

  • Torsten Hamacher, Klaus-Dieter Hoppe: The dream of flying. The Aviation Museum Laatzen-Hannover. Collection Günter Leonhardt , in Dieter Tasch , Horst-Dieter Görg (Hrsg.): Hanover's technology in advertising , in this .: (Hrsg.): It started in Hanover ... biscuits - bread rolls - calculating machines. About personalities, traditional companies and milestones in the history of technology , with contributions by Torsten Hamacher ..., in cooperation with the Technik-Forum Hannover eV, 1st edition, Hannover: Leuenhagen & Paris, 2011, ISBN 978-3-923976-84 -3 , pp. 86-93
  • Marc Volland: Museum aircraft and museums - Germany, Austria and Switzerland , Motorbuch Verlag, ISBN 978-3-613-03712-0

Web links

Commons : Aviation Museum Laatzen-Hannover  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′ 20 ″  N , 9 ° 47 ′ 29 ″  E