Fürth Airfield

Fürth Airfield is a former military airfield located in Germany about 2 miles north-northeast of the city center of Fürth in the neighborhood "Atzenhof"; approximately 200 miles south-southwest of Berlin. During the Weimar Republic it served as the principal civil aviation hub of the Nuremberg metropolitan region. The airport was renamed from "Flughafen Fürth-Nürnberg" to "Flughafen Nürnberg-Fürth" to indicate the relative importance of the two cities (the population of Nuremberg is about five times that of Fürth) and because the municipal government of Nuremberg had by then taken over the majority of the (money-losing) operation. Nonetheless, all throughout the Weimar Republic, the city of Fürth tried to get rid of the financial burden and the city of Nuremberg looked for a suitable site to build an airport in Nuremberg proper – something which only came to fruition shortly after the Nazi takeover in 1933 with the opening of Marienberg Airport In World War I there was a training center of the Royal Bavarian Air Force (part of the Bavarian Army). 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 was again openly used for military purposes b

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