Neuhausen (Нойхаузен)

54°47'07"N 020°37'02"E

Flying field: n/a - 1100x950m - grass

Neuhausen airfield (german: Fliegerhorst Neuhausen (Нойхаузен), Russian: Guryevsk/Гу́рьевск) was a German air base 10 kilometers northeast of Kaliningrad, Russia.
The airfield was built by the National Socialist (Nazi) Luftwaffe in what was then East Prussia (Ostpreußen). The airfields' construction began in 1935 and took two years to complete.
Several units used the airbase, of which Kampfgeschwader KG27 'Boelcke" was formed at the airfield, flying Heinkel He111. It had about 5 hangars and was connected to the railway grid by its own tracks for resupply.
From May 1945 the airfield was briefly in use with the Soviet Air Force, flying Yak-9 (909 IAP). Its flying field continued to be used by Po-2 cropdusters for quite some time after that.


Neuhausen (Нойхаузен) on a map drawn in 2005 as it was in 1940 (klgd.ru).

Neuhausen is the only former German airfield that did not survive into modern times. Its hangars were demolished around 1948/1949. From 1949 the flying field was used to grow crops. The flying field was partly built over with a poultry farm since 1974. Over time, businesses from Kaliningrad and its suburbs have been growing onto what remained of the airfield. From what can be seen in Google Earth the airfields layout is still recognisable. It's railway connection and some airfield buildings (or at least their foundations) still remain at the former airfield.


Undated (believed to be 1990s) photograph of the control tower (klgd.ru).


2006 aerial photograph of former Neuhausen airfield (Google Earth).