Erfurt: Bindersleben Airport

Fliegerhorst Erfurt-Bindersleben, Аэродром Эрфурт, Flughafen Erfurt-Weimar

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Coordinates	N505848 E0105725 (WGS84) Google Maps
Elevation	1036 ft
Former East Germany (GDR)	District of Erfurt
Federal state	Thüringen (Thuringia)
Location indicator	EDXE, ETEF (-1995), EDDE (1995-)

Map with location of Erfurt Bindersleben Airport, Germany

Germany during the Cold War Map

The history of the Cold War airfields: Erfurt-Bindersleben

Contents

Page 1: Erfurt-Bindersleben Luftwaffe Air Base, Germany

During World War II

1944

End of war 1945

Page 2: Erfurt Airport, East Germany/GDR, 1945 - 1990

In the 1980s and early 1990s

Page 3: Erfurt-Weimar Airport, Germany, from 1990 ← you are here

In the 1990s

Overview

1992

Image source, unless otherwise noted: GDI-Th, Freistaat Thüringen, TLVermGeo, www.geoportal-th.de, Datenlizenz Deutschland – Namensnennung – Version 2.0, www.govdata.de/dl-de/by-2-0

Erfurt Bindersleben Airport on 01 August 1992

In the west a new railway track was laid

The new track goes away to the north from the siding of the airport.

Southwestern part

Apron

Details

Level crossing at Bindersleben

Loading ramp with crane

Buildings

Facilities

Aircraft on display, e.g. a Il-18

Building at the airport

The destroyed Tu-134 stood about in the middle of the picture. - Apparently three plates had been laid in the ground as a foundation for them.

This area was previously used for masts, probably antennas. - Now the area is cleared. Possibly there was a connection with the Soviet direction finder.

Soviet naval direction finder

In 1992 the circular antenna (CDDA) of the direction finder was already dismantled. Some cars park on the barracks area. Apparently the Russian troops have left.

Installation

Barracks

Area of the CDDA - The antenna is removed. In the lower half of the large circle another circular structure can be guessed, which has bright plates as its center. This could have been the previous smaller antenna.

Today

Use

Airport.

Overview

Orthophoto from 10 May 2016

Links

https://www.stasi-mediathek.de/medien/feuerloeschu... - Bilder von der Feuerlöschübung an der Tu-134 DDR-SCG. The accompanying text states that this exercise took place on the Stasi premises in Wartin. However, this is unlikely as the plane would not have flown far south to Erfurt first. In addition, on picture 4 a fire engine with a license plate VP09-... is shown. These were the license plates for police and fire engines of the Erfurt district (09 was the district number for Erfurt).
https://www.flughafen-erfurt-weimar.de/ - Flughafen Erfurt-Weimar
http://www.luftfahrt-erfurt.de/ - Luftfahrt in Erfurt - Aviation in Erfurt Airfield history
http://www.vergessene-bahnen.de/Ex185k_2.htm - Vergessene Bahnen - Lost Railways Description of the former railway line Erfurt-West - Nottleben, including connection to the airfield.

Sources

https://lib.byu.edu/collections/german-maps/ - German Maps (Topographische Karte 1:25,000)German Maps (Topographische Karte 1:25,000)
https://www.geoportal-th.de/ - Geoportal Thüringen

Bibliography

Ries, Karl; Dierich, Wolfgang: "Fliegerhorste und Einsatzhäfen der Luftwaffe" Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart, 1993 - Alliierte Planskizze
Michels, Jürgen; Werner, Jochen: "Luftfahrt Ost 1945-1990" Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn, 1994 - Short description, picture
Grenzdörfer, Joachim; Seifert, Karl-Dieter: "Geschichte der ostdeutschen Verkehrsflughäfen" Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn, 1997 - 8 pages description, maps and pictures
Freundt, Lutz (Hrsg.), Büttner, Stefan: "Rote Plätze - Russische Militärflugplätze in Deutschland 1945 - 1994" AeroLit Verlag, 2007 - Description, picture of soviet transport aircrafts at Erfurt airfield in 1965