Aurich-Brockzetel glider airfield
| Aurich-Brockzetel glider airfield | |||
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| Height above MSL | 8 m (26 ft ) | ||
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| Distance from the city center | 9 km east of Aurich | ||
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| operator | LSV Aurich-Ostfriesland eV | ||
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| 11/29 | 1100 m × 100 m grass | ||
The Aurich-Brockzetel glider airfield is centrally located within East Frisia in the Aurich district of Brockzetel . It has a grass runway and a hangar in which the gliders and motor gliders of the air sports club are housed. The gliders are pulled up with a winch.
history
The construction of the airfield was started in 1941 as a deployment port . Due to difficult soil conditions, however, the work progressed only slowly and could not be completed by the end of the war. Only the large airfield with sward and the administrative area were completed. Several buildings such as warehouses, a fuel system with an underfloor tank and an ammunition depot with storage bunkers were built here. In addition, the construction of a concrete runway was started in order to prepare the airfield as an alternate area for the Wittmundhafen air base. It is also conceivable that the air base was planned as a dummy airport . In 1944, however, the work was stopped again. For a time there was a camp of the Reich Labor Service to the southeast of the airfield , in which Italian prisoners of war and later Dutch prisoners were quartered. The inmates were mainly used for road work and peatland cultivation.
During the Second World War , Brockzetel was repeatedly targeted by bomb attacks. After the end of the war, the completed facilities were dismantled. A radar station was installed on part of the site by the Royal Air Force in the 1950s and has been used by the German Armed Forces since 1960. A training area with a shooting range for the Aurich and Wittmund garrisons, which are still in use today, as well as the glider airfield were built in other areas. A memorial stone was erected for the former labor camp.
On August 7, 1963, a Saber fighter from Wittmund crashed on the site. In addition to the pilot, five other soldiers died on the ground.
Plan of the camp
Flight school
The Luftsportverein Aurich-Ostfriesland eV runs a flight school on the Brockzetel glider airfield, where you can acquire the SPL / LAPL (S) ( pilot's license for glider pilots ) and the TMG class rating for touring motor gliders.
fleet
- Dimona H-36 (touring motor glider)
- Schleicher Ka 6 e - Rhön sailor
- Schleicher K 7 - Rhön eagle
- 2 Schleicher K 8 b
- Mistral-C
- Grob G103 Twin Astir I.
- Glaser-Dirks DG-100
- Roller shutter cutter LS1 d
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ingrid Hennings: Brockzetel (PDF; 664 kB)
- ↑ Bunkermuseum.de: Bombing raids on Ostfriesland 1944 ( Memento of the original from 23 September 2015 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.
- ↑ relikte.com: The use of port Brockzetel
- ^ The Aviation Safety Network: ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 122492 . Accessed July 20, 2014.
