Kirchardt: Highway Strip

Autobahn-Notlandeplatz NLP

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Coordinates	N491308 E0085937 (WGS84) Google Maps
Federal state	Baden-Württemberg

Map with location of Kirchardt Highway Strip, Germany

Germany during the Cold War Map

The history of the Cold War airfields: Kirchardt

Location of airfield

Autobahn A6.

During the Cold War

Usage during the Cold War

Highway Strip.

Overview

Kirchardt Highway Strip on a US satellite image from 03 July 1977

Source: U.S. Geological Survey

Installations

There are two larger rest areas at the western end. At the eastern end were two smaller parking loops, which were removed when the Autobahn was expanded to 6 lanes.

Fuel equipment

CEPS pipeline connection to Kirchhardt Highway Strip, Germany

In the GDR, people knew what was going on: - A section of a reconnaissance map of the National People's Army on the pipeline system in the Federal Republic of Germany. NATO pipelines in the CEPS (Central European Pipeline System) are shown in blue here. According to the map the NLP Kirchardt (here called SINSHEIM and circled in red for clarification) was connected to pipeline 45 from Zweibrücken to Heilbronn. The parameters of the pipeline are given in the box: L=length, d=diameter, D=throughput DÜK=jet fuel VG= carburetor fuel DK=diesel fuel, F=capacity, Df=flow, ui=underground installation, P=pumping stations, T=tank farm (belonging to the pipeline), Tm=connected tank farms (military)

Source: NVA, Karte des Rohrleitungsnetzes, Geheime Verschlußsache GVS A 465 445