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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.
The accidental death of a young boy, Björn Steiger, on May 3, 1969, revealed an availability gap in rapid emergency medical care. His parents, Ute and Siegfried Steiger, then founded the rescue service foundation Björn Steiger e.V. (today Björn Steiger Foundation ).
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.
Freiburg is served by EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg in France, close to the borders of both Germany and Switzerland, 70 km (43 mi) south of Freiburg. Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport is approximately 100 km (62 mi) north of Freiburg and is also served by several airlines. The nearest larger international airports include Zurich (130 km (81 ...
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The city center after the attack. Operation Tigerfish was the military code name in World War II for the air raid on Freiburg in the evening of 27 November 1944 by the Royal Air Force with about 2,800 dead.
Then Freiburg was bombed 25 times by allied aircraft. [5] A reinforcing factor might have been the shelling of Freiburg by French artillery on 11 and 13 June 1940. On that occasion shells fell on the southern Loretto mountain, Merzhausen, Günterstal, and the area around the airport as well as on the premises of the company Rhodia and the gasworks.