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Freiburg Airport is an airport situated in the northwestern part of Freiburg, in the southwest of Germany.It is one of the oldest aerodromes in Germany. [1] The airport is approved for powered aircraft, motor gliders, helicopters, gliders, hot air balloons, for parachuting and under certain restrictions also for ultralight aircraft and gyrocopters.
Plans for the construction of a joint Swiss–French airport started in the 1930s but were halted by the Second World War.Swiss planners identified Basel as one of the four cities for which a main urban airport would be developed and recognized that the existing airfield at Sternenfeld in Birsfelden was too small and, due to the development of the adjacent river port facilities, unsuitable for ...
The airfield is home to Freiburg and Kirchzarten based gliding club Breisgauverein für Segelflug (BVS), which has also constructed the airfield and the facilities in the 70s. Until 2009, two other gliding clubs shared the airfield with the BVS, AKA Flieg Freiburg and CFM Emmendingen. They have both moved their operations to Freiburg Airport since.
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The Freiburg police commander subsequently established that the bombs were German, but the full story was not published until many years later. [14] On 27 November 1944, a raid by more than 300 bombers of RAF Bomber Command ( Operation Tigerfish ) destroyed a large portion of the city centre, with the notable exception of the Münster , which ...
Freiburg is one of the four administrative divisions (German: Regierungsbezirke) of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located in the south-west of the country.
Fribourg [a] or Freiburg [b] is the capital of the Swiss canton of Fribourg and district of La Sarine. Located on both sides of the river Saane/Sarine , on the Swiss Plateau , it is a major economic, administrative and educational centre on the cultural border between German-speaking and French-speaking Switzerland .
The first reference of habitation in the modern-day Freiburg, the Wiehre and Herdern, was documented in 1008. A trade route crossed through south of Zähringen, a modern-day part of Freiburg, and Herdern near the Dreisam, through the Rhine Valley, modern-day Zähringer-, Habsburger- and Kaiser-Joseph-Straße and an imperial road towards Breisach/Colmar (modern-day Salz- and Bertoldstraße).