{"id":158,"date":"2014-11-05T17:17:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T16:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lausitzer-museenland.de\/?page_id=158"},"modified":"2022-05-31T07:35:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T05:35:07","slug":"flugplatzmuseum-welzow","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.lausitzer-museenland.de\/en\/museums\/airfield-museum-welzow\/","title":{"rendered":"Welzow Airfield Museum \/ L\u011btani\u0161\u0107owy muzej Wjelcej"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gallery<\/a> |\u00a0Exhibitions<\/a>\u00a0| \u00a0Offers for children<\/a>\"Welzow-7\"<\/a><\/p>\n\n

Special museum with collection on the social and cultural history of the site<\/strong><\/p>\n

Building \/ plot situation<\/h3>\n
The building, which today houses the airfield museum, was part of the large complex of the former military property of barracks, residential buildings and \"social\" facilities, economic and technical buildings. The massive former workshop building was exempted from demolition and repaired.<\/div>\n

Characteristics<\/h3>\n
The airfield museum aims to document the history of airfield use in different eras. Hundreds of exhibits, primarily from the period of World War II and the use of the airfield by the Soviet Army, illustrate the history of Welzow Airfield from 1927 as a civil airfield, from 1935 to 1945 as a training and operational airfield for the German Wehrmacht and from 1945 as a military airfield for Soviet troops. The museum thus presents the development of the airfield in eight period and theme-related rooms, including aviation technology. Four rooms are looked after by the Flugplatzbetriebsgesellschaft Welzow mbH with a wide variety of exhibits on the use of the airfield from 1927 to 1993. Four further rooms are the responsibility of Vermisstenforschung Deutschland e.V. (Missing Persons Research Germany), which documents in particular aviation technology from the time of the Second World War. The exhibition activities are not least aimed at the interest of the local population, whose lives were shaped over a long period by the intensive use of the airfield.<\/div>\n

Special exhibitions \/ accompanying offers<\/a><\/h3>\n
Special exhibitions are not currently planned.<\/div>\n
The conceptual approach of Flugplatzbetriebsgesellschaft Welzow mbH sees the use of the Spremberg-Welzow airfield as a combination of commercial settlement, aeronautical utilisation and regional leisure activities, which include the museum and numerous clubs, festivals and gastronomy located on the site, e.g.:<\/div>\n
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