Leipzig-Mockau Airfield

Location of airfield

Northern edge of Leipzig, south of Autobahn A14 between intersections AS23 and AS24.

Usage during the Cold War

Civil airport for Leipzig, later base for agricultural aviation.

Current usage

Airfield is closed, area is used as commercial area.

Runways

Data for the year 1990:

Telephone

Interflug Betrieb Agrarflug: 0941/55191, Fluggespräche: 52605, Abt. Materialwirtschaft: 52867

Teletype

Interflug Betrieb Agrarflug: 051349

Aerial picture from east german field manual "A 042/1/003 Auswertung von Luftbildern" from 1973.

Aerial picture

1 - Runway; 2 - Hangar with apron; 3 - Gate and control tower; 4 - Terminal"

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

Zapf, Jürgen:
'Flugplätze der Luftwaffe 1934-1945 - und was davon übrig blieb / Sachsen'
VDM Heinz Nickel, Zweibrücken, 2002
6 pages description, maps and aerial photos.

Michels, Jürgen; Werner, Jochen:
'Luftfahrt Ost 1945-1990'
Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn, 1994
Short description

Grenzdörfer, Joachim; Seifert, Karl-Dieter:
'Geschichte der ostdeutschen Verkehrsflughäfen'
Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn, 1997
Description of history since 1912, pictures, maps.

Freundt, Lutz:
'Sowjetische Fliegerkräfte in Deutschland 1945-1994, Band 2'
Freundt Eigenverlag, Diepholz 1999
Short description of post-war history; aerial photo from 1953.