Fürth Airfield

Fürth Airfield (R-28) Fliegerhorst Fürth
Bavaria, Germany Furth Airfield Furth Airfield (Germany)
Coordinates	49°29′49″N 010°57′26″E
Type	Military airfield
Site history
Built by	Luftwaffe
In use	1939-1945 (Luftwaffe) 1945-1947 (United States Army Air Forces)

Fürth Airfield is a former military airfield located in Germany about 2 miles north-northeast of Fürth (Bavaria); approximately 200 miles south-southwest of Berlin.

In WW1 der was a Training Center of the Royal Bavarian Air Force. In the 1920s it was the first international Airport of the Cities Nürnberg and Fürth. The importance of the airport increased further when Junkers transferred first its central repair workshop, and then the final assembly line for its F-13 and G-24 aircraft from Dessau to Fürth. In 1935 it became again an Airfield of the Luftwaffe. The airfield was used during World War II by the German Luftwaffe as a combat airfield. It was seized in early April 1945 by the United States Army and used as a Ninth Air Force combat airfield until the end of the war in Europe. After the war "Army Airfield Station Fürth" was established at the airfield, being closed in June 1947. Than it became "Monteith-Barracks" of the US. Army till it was closed in 1995.

Today, the airfield is abandoned and parts of the facility remains undeveloped as a relic.

About 2 km south of this Airfield there was the so called "Industrieflughafen" In 1919 there was a factory of the Gothaer Waggonfabrik and in the late 1930s it was the Airport of the Bachmann von Bluhmenthal Company (Industrieflughafen Fürth). Here till 1945 Me-110s where build, repaired and converted into Nightfighters. At the end of the war it became Army Airfield R-30, then it became Nürnberg auxilary International Airport till the mid of the 1950s. Today it is completely overbuild and known as the Hardhöhe.

See also

• Advanced Landing Ground

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency