Flugplatz Peselhoek

50°52'15"N 002°44'38"E

Runway n/a

Flugplatz Peselhoek (Dutch: vliegveld Peselhoek) was a Luftwaffe airfield near Ypres and Poperinge in West-Flanders (Dutch: West-Vlaanderen) in Belgium.
It was built between 1940 and 1941, but hardly saw use after being completed: it is estimated that only 5 aircraft ever used it.
The germans left the facility in 1941 already, but nobody really knows why.
It has been suggested that Peselhoek may have been a fake airfield, but the facilities are generally deemed to be too solid to support that theory.
Today only the shell of a tower (a protected monument under Flemish law), remains of a water treatment facility and the front of a hangar remain of the former Flugplatz Peselhoek (source in dutch).


Tower of Flugplatz Peselhoek near Poperinge.