About 10 km south of Schwerin there was a reserve airfield of the Soviet armed forces in the area of Sülte / Boldela / Buchholz in the GDR. It had a 3 km runway with a grass surface and was prepared for the use of radio beacons. There is no information about the use of this field. Today the airfield is closed.
During the Cold War
Use
Soviet reserve airfield.
Situation
Sülte Airfield on a map of the US Department of Defense from 1972
Source: ONC E-2 (1972), Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin /PCL MC/
Overview
The Soviet reserve airfield Sülte on a US satellite image from 25 June 1975 - The more than 3.5 km long lane in the forest is marked with red lines. In the northeast there are the facilities of the East German People's Army (NVA) location Schwerin Stern-Buchholz
Source: U.S. Geological Survey
Runways
11/29: 2400 m Grass
Radio beacons
The main landing direction 29 (approx. 290°) was prepared for the use of two non-directional medium-wave radio beacons.