Löbnitz

51°34'36"N 012°29'49"E

runway: 10/28 - 2400x..m - grass (CLOSED)
runway: 10/28 - 1200x40m - grass
runway: 08/26 - 1050x..m - grass (CLOSED)
runway: 14/32 - 1000x..m - grass (CLOSED)
runway: 01/19 - 1000x..m - grass, originally numbered as 18/36

Air field Löbnitz (German: Flugplatz Löbnitz, also currently known as Flugplatz Roitzschjora, ICAO: EDAW) was an airfield in Saxony on the border with Saxony-Anhalt in Germany.
The airfield was built in 1936 for the National Socialist Fliegerkorps (a Hitlerjugend organisation). After World War II had started it became a Luftwaffe airfield. In 1944 it was being used by several Staffeln of JG300.


No photos dring World War II have been located

After World War the airfield was turned into an emergency (wartime) airfield for Soviet forces. The Nationale Volksarmee (the East-German armed forces) used the airfield as a helicopter landing field. The semi-civilian GST (Gesellschaft fúr Sport und Technik) used the airfield as a glider sportsfield from 1956. 
Up until at least 1990 the airfield had 4 runways. Officially, only one remains, at greatly reduced length, on the east side of the airfield. The north and west side of the airfield are used to dig sand.
Annually, the airfield is host to the With Full Force hardrock festival.


2000 aerial photo of Roitzschjora airfield, showing the original runways (in single lines). The double red line is the currently operational 10/28 main runway, with the single north-south line indicating the alternate 01/19 runway (Google Earth).


2011 approach map of the airfield (Wega-air.de)


Clearly seen in this 2015 photo, the airfield is loosing room because of the nearby sandpits to the north and west (Google Earth)


A more close up view gives a better impression of Roitzschjora.