Goerlitz Airfield

Location of airfield

NW edge of Goerlitz

Usage until 1945

Started as civilian airfield, later operated by Luftwaffe.

Usage during the Cold War

Airfield for Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik (GST) until 1979, then closed.

Additionally:
Helipad 3037 for Versorgungslager 14 (VL-14) of East German Airforce (NVA LSK/LV)
Helipad 5705 of East German Border Troops (GT)

Current usage

General aviation

Dimensions: 600 m x 600 m
Main takeoff and landing direction: 330°
Surface: solid grass
Capacity: 1 helicopter (for helipad 3037)

Telephone

Sondernetz/Stabsnetz S1 3734-761-829p (VL-14)

General

Helipad usable at day during good weather conditions
Alert time: 60 minutes.

Obstacles

None

Google Maps
http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=51.1595,+14.951+...

Flugplatz Rothenburg/Görlitz GmbH
Airfield operator; web site includes aerial picture.
http://www.flugplatz-rothenburg-goerlitz.de/

Fliegerclub Eibau-Oberlausitz e.V.
With aerial pictures of the airfield.
http://www.fliegerclub-eibau.de/

Ries, Karl; Dierich, Wolfgang:
'Fliegerhorste und Einsatzhäfen der Luftwaffe'
Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart, 1993
Allied map

Zapf, Jürgen:
'Flugplätze der Luftwaffe 1934-1945 - und was davon übrig blieb / Sachsen'
VDM Heinz Nickel, Zweibrücken, 2002
4 pages description, map, aerial picture from 1944 and picture postcard.

Grenzdörfer, Joachim; Seifert, Karl-Dieter:
'Geschichte der ostdeutschen Verkehrsflughäfen'
Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn, 1997
4 pages description, maps and aerial picture