CONSTRUCTION OF AN AIRFIELD NEAR HOLTHUSEN-BUCHOLZ

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011200530006-7
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 6, 2006
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: March 6, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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PREPARED
The construction of a narrow-ggauge fieldd, railroad line crossing
the so nzsen-udivigslust railroad line was planned. ~r?
iTolthusen.-3uchholz airfield were started in mid-October 1951 and that work
proper was begun on 2 January 1952, The ~-.orapletion date of the project was
faxed for 25 August 1952? The .1aren i3aunnion has the contract for the work.,
The site for the field is in a state o-med forest, An area of 100 x 2,800
meters is to be cleared, A as-meter stretch both north and south of the pro-
jected field was cleared of trees but the stumps have not been uprooted. Tha
top ::oil will be removed. Grading will be done by a Soviet unit -which has nat
yet arrived. Io Soviet construction supervisor had arrived.
T%,,anty office personnel and 160 workers .:ere employed at the field, Equipment
available includes two stump grubbers, one powere'. by a Diesel engine and, Ms
l aebe ahl t7pe caterpillar tractoro The trees in. the ,outl~ern section betties cn
stations 0 and 20 were uprooted. The poruion of the wooded area opposite the
construction material dump (z a,zliof) was cleared, and the logs ore being 'hauled
away Clearing was being done on a s.te of about 70,000 square motors near
station 35.
To contract for tie construction of hangars had been awarded. --hilt working
the terrain,, particular attention was given to avoid :uneven spots on the fro and.
;toles -were,, therefore, filled with particular care=. As the contract was placed
by the air force construct-ion staff, the auunion believed that an airfield was
to be built there. Great stress was placed on the fact that the field was to
be constructed not far from a heath in order to save the transportation costs
of humus. This project was about 5 to 7 lira from a .-.ramp,, i o spur track was
available. The project was designates ""0 1111 by the crder construction staff
fbccordin,, to Deputy Construction Chief Loebel (m u), 1,300x000 eastmarks was
tentatively ranted.. This sura would suffice only, for the establishment of the
constru ation sites and the cutting and uprooting of trees. The actual cost of
the project is to bey determined by a detailed tabulation of all the service',
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required canuot be provided by the cores traction staff
some of the .;or?t will
be Derfori:ied by Soviet anits-,
the soil consisted of a top layer of
heath off to u" cm, a sand layer slightly mix d ;wit'. humas up to la cri, and
another layer of fine .-;rained. ,ravel with a sli;:;?it admixture of loan and
i snarl ,
survoyin'; was done by the Lresdcn Lau-
union in Letzotr n hi.ch is located on the narro.r ,,au;c field railroad line to
I.auzer, between S(,nzke and Lauon, The ;_>air_i.nions of 'andenbur1; and Dresden had
alleTedl,r refused to take the contract for this work. It, is possible that
.wren hanvnion, which already inspected the construction site, ti?ri.ll -et the
contract for the iLetzow ;)roject.
mx iento For copy Of c2oc " :opt, of a `Iif ux 1o "-'s'ic railroad line is
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sc~cl to tray?snort t e Bartz required for ;radin, the airfield near 4Ioolthusor..~25X1
Duch lo1`L,
Lion of an a irfioi u
believed to be
area indicates
0onr entn
first time.
"_'_he planned. cons truc<
was previously reported
This information is
correct. The location of the field in a wooded and swampy
that a training field is to Ie constructed there.
The construction of an airfield in :ietzow is re:)orted for the
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