Vahrenwalder Heide

Green area of the Vahrenwalder Heide

Around 1917: Map excerpt from the airfield atlas showing the parade ground in place of the later airport

The Vahrenwalder Heide is part of the Vahrenheide district in Hanover . At first the Vahrenwalder Heide was a parade ground for the Hanoverian garrison . From the beginning of the 20th century until the Expo 2000 , the area was mainly used as a military training area.

history

Memorial stone for Karl Jatho near the former airfield of Hanover-Vahrenwald Airport

As early as 1900, Karl Jatho began his flight attempts on a self-made airfield on the Vahrenwalder Heide. From these beginnings, the Hanover-Vahrenwald Airport later emerged as Hanover's first airport . It was in operation until the end of World War II . During the war it was badly damaged by bombing raids. After the war it was no longer expandable due to the surrounding buildings and was given up. About 5.5 kilometers to the north-west, Hanover Airport was set up in an area that could be expanded outside the city of Hanover .

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  Vahrenwalder Heide - Fliegerstation
  colored picture postcard , around 1914

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  The same building at the beginning of 2015 at the bullet trap on the site of the Hauptfeldwebel-Lagenstein barracks

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  An outbuilding, again with a built-in double decker

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  The same outbuilding in 2015 with broken windows

After the war, the Vahrenheide district was built on the Vahrenwalder Heide to compensate for the many apartments bombed in World War II. Today the area is again shown as Vahrenwalder Heide in the latest city maps.

Others

The aviation pioneer Gustav Tweer had a fatal accident on November 1, 1916 when he crashed with his plane on the Vahrenwalder Heide. Tweer flew in a new type of aircraft on behalf of the Hannoversche Waggonfabrik .

literature

• Helmut Zimmermann : On the Vahrenwalder Heide , in: From Anderten to Stöcken. Forays through Hanover's history , Harenberg-Labs, Hanover 1987, ISBN 3-89042-023-0 , pp. 70–73
• Wolfgang Leonhardt : List, Vahrenwald, Vinnhorst. Three districts of Hanover with history (s) , developed with the Working Group Stadtgeschichte List, 1st edition, Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8448-7810-3 ; mostly online via Google books

Web links

Commons : Vahrenwalder Heide  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Vahrenwalder Heide, Karl Jatho and the district of Vahrenheide ( Memento from August 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
• Relics - The Hanover-Vahrenwalder Heide Air Base

Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 2.3 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 34.4"  E