Bohlhof glider airfield
| Bohlhof glider airfield | |||
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| Height above MSL | 569 m (1867 ft ) | ||
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| opening | 1932 | ||
| operator | Segelfluggemeinschaft Bohlhof e. V. | ||
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| 04/22 | 650 m × 30 m grass | ||
The airfield Bohlhof is a Segelfluggelände on Bohlhof northeast of Schwerzen , a district of Wutoeschingen in Waldshut district in southern Baden-Wuerttemberg . It is one of three airfields in the district.
The Bohlhof plateau lies at an altitude of around 569 m above sea level. NN on the local road from Schwerzen to Rechberg on the south-eastern edge of the Southern Black Forest nature reserve .
The airfield is operated by the Segelfluggemeinschaft Bohlhof e. V. operated.
history
On August 13, 1932, Ernst Stoll, the brother of the lion host from Erzingen , carried out the first flight from Aggisellbuck near Erzingen with a self-made 10-meter pupil . The glider was built by the lion owner Hermann Stoll and five of his friends. But his brother had to make the first start because he was the only one of the group in the health insurance company. The Aggisellbuck was only suitable for short flights of up to 15 seconds. In the same year, further airfields around the Klettgau were tested and discarded again. After one of the pilots from Bohlhof was able to fly in the thermal for 120 seconds for the first time, the search for a suitable site and home for the glider pilots was over. All over the Waldshut district , groups came together who built and wanted to fly their own aircraft. The Bohlhof was a suitable area for this and soon several of these groups were flying here.
In 1934 the Bohlhof was taken down by the flight police and declared an airfield. In the same year the first hangar was built, which is now used as a glider hangar. In 1935 the "Bohlhofring" was founded as an association of the local groups Erzingen, Stühlingen, Jestetten and Wutöschingen. With the introduction of the winch start in 1936, the flights got further and longer and 5-hour flights were no longer uncommon.
During the time of National Socialism , the " Gleichschaltung " in April 1937 and the transformation of the German Air Sports Association into the National Socialist Aviation Corps (NSFK) from the local groups Waldshut and Erzingen became the "NSFK Storm Waldshut". The Bohlhof became more and more a training area for the "Flieger-HJ", a special unit of the Hitler Youth (HJ). In a single course, five out of six Erzinger machines broke. Before and during World War II , the airfield was a basic training facility for pilots. During this time the Bohlhof was one of the most popular glider airfields in Germany, with up to 12,000 take-offs per year. In 1939 private glider operations came to a standstill. After the end of the war, the entire aircraft fleet and a hangar were removed by the French.
It was not until 1951 that the Allied High Commission approved gliding again. The Erzingen glider group (SGE) was given a pupil from Switzerland, which first had to be overtaken and was then only allowed to fly straight ahead and make slight turns. In 1956, however, there were again new cuts in flight operations. In order to separate the traffic approaching Kloten Airport , the construction of which began in 1946, from glider pilots, the height of the Bohlhof pilots at the site and in the surrounding area was limited to 4000 feet or approx. 1200 meters. Later reduced even further to 900 meters and then increased again in a special concession to the 1050 meters that are still valid today, which means around 500 meters above ground.
In 1957/58 a common umbrella organization was founded by the Erzingen glider group (SGE) and the Hochrhein glider association (SVH). In 1976 it was merged into an association called the “Segelfluggemeinschaft Bohlhof” (SGB).
Flight operations
The official flight operations take place from March to October mostly on weekends, depending on the weather. At the moment there are seven gliders (three two-seater and four single-seater), two motor-gliders (two-seater) and a four-seater touring and towing aircraft , as well as several private aircraft.
The TMA Zurich airspace allows a maximum permitted altitude of 3,500 feet (approx. 1,050 meters). It is subject to the supervision of the Swiss air traffic control system Skyguide . Glider pilots are open to the southern Black Forest , Wutachtal , Hochrheintal and Klettgau , motor sailers the Black Forest , the Swabian Alb and the Swiss Jura .
The glider airfield has a 650 meter long runway made of grass, the direction of the runway is 04/22 on a meadow that slopes slightly towards the southwest. Possible operating modes are winch start , aircraft tow and motor gliders .
Glider airfields in the area
Apart from the Schmerlat airfield near Neunkirch in Switzerland, the Bohlhof is the only airfield for gliders and powered aircraft in the Klettgau. The other closest glider airfields are the Reiselfingen glider airfield near Löffingen , the Rickenbach-Hütten airfield in the Hotzenwald and the Blumberg airfield near Blumberg .
literature
- Segelfluggemeinschaft Bohlhof (Ed.): 75 years of gliding at Bohlhof 1932–2007 . Festschrift, Wutöschingen 2007.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bohlhof (living space) on the pages of www.leo-bw.de (regional information system for Baden-Württemberg)
- ↑ a b c d Information board at the Bohlhof glider airfield
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Cf. 75 years of gliding on the Bohlhof. Thinking back, taking stock and looking to the future . In: 75 years of gliding at Bohlhof 1932–2007 , pp. 4–28.
- ↑ Cf. Carola Schelle-Wolff, Hartmut Zoche (ed.): Children play in their city: SpielRäume in Freiburg 1900–2000 . modo Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1st edition 2000, ISBN 3-922675-78-6 , p. 115.