Flugplatz Schwerin Görries
Built in 1913 as a civilian airport - the Flugplatz Schwerin-Görries was also home to Anton Fokker who both trained pilots and built planes there. With the outbreak of WWI, Schwerin Görries turned into a military airport, where Fokker would build up 3400 planes by the end of the war. For the Full story - click the link here: https://digitalcosmonaut.com/flugplatz-schwerin-goerries/ After the Treaty of Versailles all but decimated the german aviation industry, the airbase was left virtually abandoned until the early 1930s, when the Deutsche Verkehrsfliegerschule (a covert military training organisation) reactivated its "civilian" use. By 1934 the DVS bought the airport and immediately converted and expanded it into a military airbase. By 1935, the first units were stationed in Schwerin Görries. Between 1935 and 1945, the Flugplatz Schwerin Görries hosted not only operational units, but also served as a pilot training facility. The majority of the buildings were destroyed by two allied air raids in 1944 and 1945, and the airbase was evacuated on the 30th of April, 1945 - one day later American troops would capture it uncontested. The Flugplatz Schwerin Görries would be handed over to the Soviets in July 1945, who tore up the runway and converted the airbase into a storage depot. The depot was closed in 1991, and the ex-Soviet troops would end up leaving Schwerin in April 1993. Since then the Flugplatz has been left more or less abandoned in its current state. An investor bought the property in 2019, but as of 2023 - nothing construction or development progress has been made. Memories of Spring by Tokyo Music Walker | https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060 Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Built in 1913 as a civilian airport - the Flugplatz Schwerin-Görries was also home to Anton Fokker who both trained pilots and built planes there. With the outbreak of WWI, Schwerin Görries turned into a military airport, where Fokker would build up 3400 planes by the end of the war. For the Full story - click the link here: https://digitalcosmonaut.com/flugplatz-schwerin-goerries/ After the Treaty of Versailles all but decimated the german aviation industry, the airbase was left virtually abandoned until the early 1930s, when the Deutsche Verkehrsfliegerschule (a covert military training organisation) reactivated its "civilian" use. By 1934 the DVS bought the airport and immediately converted and expanded it into a military airbase. By 1935, the first units were stationed in Schwerin Görries. Between 1935 and 1945, the Flugplatz Schwerin Görries hosted not only operational units, but also served as a pilot training facility. The majority of the buildings were destroyed by two allied air raids in 1944 and 1945, and the airbase was evacuated on the 30th of April, 1945 - one day later American troops would capture it uncontested. The Flugplatz Schwerin Görries would be handed over to the Soviets in July 1945, who tore up the runway and converted the airbase into a storage depot. The depot was closed in 1991, and the ex-Soviet troops would end up leaving Schwerin in April 1993. Since then the Flugplatz has been left more or less abandoned in its current state. An investor bought the property in 2019, but as of 2023 - nothing construction or development progress has been made. Memories of Spring by Tokyo Music Walker | https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060 Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/