Seddin airship port

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Landing of Italia in 1928

The airship port of Seddin was established during the First World War . He was at the Seddin Vorwerk near Jeseritz in the Stolp district in Pomerania . It consisted of a landing pad for airships , two airship hangars , a hydrogen production facility, warehouses and workshops.

Stationed units

  • Naval airship SL 4 (first voyage: May 2, 1915. A total of 21 reconnaissance voyages across the North and Baltic Seas.) Two attacks against the island of Ösel with 600 kg bombs. Destroyed by storm on December 14, 1915 in the Seddin Hall.
  • Navy airship SL 6 (first voyage: October 9, 1915. A total of six reconnaissance voyages.) Burned near Seddin on November 10, 1915 shortly after take-off.
  • Navy airship SL 8 (first voyage: March 30, 1916. A total of 34 reconnaissance voyages across the North and Baltic Seas.) Three attack voyages with 4600 kg bombs against Werder , Moon and Pernau .
In the course of company Albion , the airships L30 (Oblt.zS Vermehren), LZ113 and LZ120, (Kptlt. Zaeschmar and Kptlt. Von Lossnitzer), L37 (Kptlt. Paul Gartner) and SL 8 (Oblt.zS Ratz) carried out bomb attacks against the City of Pernau on the Riga Bay . SL8 did not achieve its goal: After problems with three of the five engines, it returned to Seddin.
On November 20, 1917, the SL8 was decommissioned as obsolete and dismantled in Seddin.

Between the world wars

Almost all of the airship hangars on German soil were demolished as a result of the Treaty of Versailles after the First World War. The smaller, 180 m long airship hangar in Seddin was spared from this for unknown reasons. In 1928 it served as a repair yard for Italian Italia after suffering a tail unit damage on the way to the North Pole. From 1929 to 1932, semi-rigid airships of the Parseval-Naatz type were built in Seddin .

post war period

After the Second World War, the area fell to Poland. The airship hangar was used, among other things, as a grain store. Since 1987 the hall has been used by the local fire department . On September 6, 1989 the hall caught fire during welding work and the last German airship hall from the time of the First World War was completely destroyed.

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Coordinates: 54 ° 30 ′ 41.7 "  N , 17 ° 6 ′ 37.3"  E