Air sports club Eßweiler
| LSV Eßweiler e. V. | |
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| Club data | |
| Full name: | Luftsportverein Eßweiler (formerly Landstuhl) e. V. |
| Founded: | July 14, 1928 |
| Founded in: | Landstuhl |
| Members: of which active: of which passive: honorary members |
89 (as of 2014) 43 40 6 |
| Airfield: | Eßweiler glider airfield |
| Website: | www.lsv-essweiler.de |
| Board | |
| 1. Chairman: | Henrik Heinz |
| Airfield | |
| Piste: | 1000 m × 80 m |
| Alignment: | 05-23 |
| Nature: | Grass 4% increasing towards 05 |
| Approved for: | Gliders Motor gliders Ultralight E-Class only with tow release |
| Start types: | Self-launch winch towing F-tow |
| Flight operations | |
| Open: | Sundays and public holidays PPR |
The Luftsportverein (LSV) Eßweiler emerged from the Landstuhl Luftsportverein, which was founded on July 14, 1928 as the Landstuhl Aviation Club in the city of the same name. The association has been operating its own airfield on the western slope of Königsberg near Eßweiler since July 18, 1963. LSV Eßweiler is a member of the German Aero Club e. V. ( DAeC e.V. ).
history
Pre-war period
On July 14, 1928, the Landstuhl citizens of Vogel, Schlichting, Weber, Scherer, Schuff, Schädler, Kalsch, Oberndorfer, Wagner, Dreyer and Wittemann founded the Landstuhl Aviation Association in the Kastner inn. Edmund Ulrich was elected the first chairman in the history of the association.
Ten months after it was founded, the first glider was presented to the public. This aircraft, a pupil , was christened Franz von Sickingen . In May 1929, the first 20 trial starts with heights of up to 10 meters and flight distances of up to 100 meters were carried out in Landstuhler Bruch .
After these test flights, the Elkenkopf near Schallodenbach was flown together with other groups of glider pilots . There the pupil completed his hundredth flight on September 3 of the same year.
Immediately afterwards, a second aircraft was built according to Alois Palm's plans. In 1930 the aircraft named Nanstein was completed. Its designer flew it for over 72 minutes in 1931 - a Palatinate record. In the same year Alois Palm was the first pilot in the Palatinate to receive the official C-license for a total flight time of over three hours.
1935 was the third self-built aircraft, the name Westmark baptized Grunau Baby , are put into service. The highlight of the club's history at that time is that the flight instructor Karl Kirschbaum was the first to circle over the town of Landstuhl and Nanstein Castle in 1936.
The political change in the German Reich soon led to the dissolution of the association. The following note is to be found in the register of associations of April 30, 1937: The association was dissolved by the Fuehrer's decree of April 17, 1937.
War years
After the dissolution of the association, members and aircraft were transferred to state organizations in which gliding was possible, especially for young members, until the last year of the war, but only under the sign of pre-military training.
Post war history
13 years after its dissolution, on October 13, 1950, the association was revived by its former members. Under the first chairmen Alois Palm and Edmund Ulrich, however, the construction of a new SG 38 school glider failed, which meant that the association was again facing dissolution, this time by itself.
The chronicle reads that only a few members dared to start over in 1954. Alois Palm was already elected honorary chairman, Edmund Ulrich was elected first and executive chairman. Under his initiative, great plans were drawn up and implemented.
Within the first two years from 1954 to 1956, a two-seater Rhönlerche training aircraft and a take-off winch with an automatic gearbox were built. At the same time the members were trained in winch launch at Sobernheim airfield .
At the end of the sixties, the Rhönlerche and the Spatz were replaced by a K 7 and an SF 26. At this time, the first owner associations for private aircraft were also founded.
In 1972, the bond with the city of Landstuhl was completely lost when the club's workshop in the basement of the town hall had to be cleared. Since then, club life has only taken place in Eßweiler. In 2003, a year before the name was renamed LSV Eßweiler, the association once again hosted the Rhineland-Palatinate Glider Pilot Day in its former hometown.
Name change
From the day the association was founded, the city of Landstuhl was an integral part of the association's name. Although the air sports club in Landstuhl had never operated an airfield, the aviation activities had been limited to Eßweiler since 1963 and the workshop in Landstuhl had to be cleared in 1972, the club name was only changed in 2004.
At the 2004 annual general meeting there were heated discussions about the project. Even after more than 40 years in Eßweiler, no final agreement could be reached, so that although the name is now Luftsportverein Eßweiler and is used, the addition “formerly Landstuhl” has been added to the club register . The official name of the club is now Luftsportverein Eßweiler (formerly Landstuhl) e. V. This even led to the fact that members left the association in protest because they saw the association's traditions as violated.
Club logo
Over the decades, today's air sports club Eßweiler had several names and several logos. So at the beginning the attempt was made to emphasize the connection to the city of Landstuhl by depicting a glider in front of Nanstein Castle in a painted logo. After the move to the Eßweiler airfield and the evacuation of the workshop in Landstuhl, the connection to Landstuhl was gradually lost, and with it identification with the previous logo.
The association's documents at that time show that the members worked intensively on a new logo, but obviously they could not agree on a design. So, probably for the sake of simplicity, the widespread glider logo with the text Luftsportverein Landstuhl was used as the new logo . The logo was still used after the name change, now with the text Luftsportverein Essweiler , until the current logo was introduced.
It was not until 2004 that the club was renamed from Landstuhl Air Sports Club to Eßweiler Air Sports Club. This occasion was used to have a new, printable logo designed. At the annual general meeting on March 10, 2005, the new logo was unanimously adopted and has been the official logo of the LSV Eßweiler ever since.
Airfields
Pottschütt Pirmasens (EDRP)
After the new start in 1954, a suitable glider site for the club was sought together with the Aero Club Pirmasens. Finally, a suitable area was discovered on the Pottschütthöhe near Massweiler (Pirmasens). With the support of the American 12th Air Fleet from the nearby Ramstein Air Base in Ramstein , the area could be leveled and developed.
The Landstuhl Air Sports Club only used the new Pirmasens airfield until 1963. In 1961, due to the increasing number of motorized flights, it was decided to switch to the previously discovered area on the western slope of the Königsberg near Eßweiler and to build a glider airfield there.
Eßweiler airfield
After the decision in Eßweiler to build an airfield, the community acquired five hectares of forest. Thanks to grants from the Palatinate Sports Association, the club was able to gradually buy more forest and meadow areas.
As in Rieschweiler, the clearing and leveling of the area was carried out by the LSU units at Ramstein Air Base. In 1963 the shell of the square was completed and the club moved from Pottschütt to Eßweiler. On July 18, 1963, the first take-off was carried out at the new airfield.
Initially, a barn was rented in the village to house the winch and planes. In 1965 a small temporary aircraft hangar and a clubhouse were built on the airfield site. In 1967 the construction of a 330 m² aircraft hangar began, which was put into operation in 1969.
In 1973 a barrack was built on the airfield. This building, which originated from the military, is furnished with a kitchen, common rooms, office and workshop and serves as a replacement for the rooms in Landstuhl that were abandoned the previous year.
1979 the license was extended to motor gliders. In the meantime, the airfield is approved for gliders, motor gliders, UL and motor aircraft with a tow release.
In the course of the eighties (1980 and 1985) two more hangars, each 15 × 30 m, were built to accommodate the large number of aircraft. The private property of LSV Eßweiler has now grown to 13 hectares.
In 2000, the last construction project was a farm road that crossed the airfield at the west end and moved around the field.
Planes
In the course of the club's history, many different aircraft, both club-owned and private, were stationed at the field. A list of all the aircraft that were stationed in Essweiler is currently being drawn up. This list of aircraft is therefore limited to those currently stationed at the field.
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education
As is usual with the majority of aviation clubs, the LSV Eßweiler offers the opportunity to complete theoretical and practical flight training within the club. The association offers training courses for the pilot's license PPL-C , motor glider (TMG) and ultralight .
Members
Current board of directors
1st Chairman: Henrik "Hennes" Heinz · 2nd Chairman: Dieter Flachsland · Secretary: Sebastian Schick (interim) · Cashier: Ralf "Ralle" Förster · Assessor: Rudolf Dering, Siegfried Heinlein, Sebastian Schick
Functionaries
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Accidents on the field
- June 5, 1990: After only the third winch launch that day was successful for the pilot Theo Schappert from Rutsweiler , he did not return to the airfield that evening. His plane was hit by an F-16 over the town of Teschenmoschel on the Donnersberg and crashed. The pilot died instantly. The cause of this accident was never established.
Trivia
- The Landstuhl-born engineer Helmut Hoffmann, former Technical Director of Vodafone D2 GmbH, now Managing Manager Global Networks of the Vodafone Group, has been a member of LSV Eßweiler since his early childhood and is probably the most prominent member of the association. His father was already active as chairman of the association before he was killed in a plane crash.
Events
- Airfield festival on the last weekend in August
- Fly summer turn
- Participant in the VGM Wolfstein & Ramstein-M summer vacation program.
- Summer air camp