Dortmund Airport is called Dortmund Airport 21. It is located in the east of Dortmund on the city limits of Holzwickede and Unna. In terms of passenger numbers, it is the third largest commercial airport in NRW.
After the first runway was built in 1969, further extensions and conversions followed over the years. The most important are the expansion of the General Aviation Terminal (GAT) in the west in 1986 and the construction of today's main terminal in the east.
The first airport in Dortmund was located in Brackel and was put into operation in 1925. The famous airship Graf Zeppelin landed here on August 10, 1930, with thunderous applause from 120,000 people. Civil aviation ceased at the beginning of World War II and the Royal Air Force took over the airport at the end of the war. In 1950 the brothers Theo and Hans Hengsbach founded the Aero-Club e.V. together with other flight enthusiasts as the successor to the Dortmund Aviation Association. The first German glider took off three years later in Brackel, and in 1955 the Hengsbach brothers made their first sightseeing flights. Flight operations were finally discontinued in 1959.
The new airport in Wickede was built to meet the requirements of modern times and modern aircraft. After the withdrawal of the British Armed Forces in 1995, it was converted. Today there is a golf course at the Brackel location, the training grounds of the Bundesliga soccer club Borussia Dortmund and a new development area. Only a few signs such as bunker systems in the nearby Buschei nature reserve remind of the former use as an airport. The last airport buildings and former military buildings still existing at the Brackel site were leveled out in 2007; residential construction has meanwhile taken place here.
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