Nordholz-Spieka

53°46'01"N 008°38'37"E

Runway: 08/26 - 1300m - grass

Nordholz-Spieka airfield (German: Sonderlandeplatz Nordholz-Spieka, sometimes referred to as Cuxhafen airfield, ICAO: EDXN) is a civilian airfield 345kilometer west-northwest of Berlin.
The airfield opened in 1982 as a continuation of the flying club of Nordholz Air Base, on whose grounds (albeit just north outside the fences) it is located. 
Until June 2014 the airfield featured a 850m grass runway adjacent and in parallel to the Nordholz runway and a grass 1300m glider runway just north of that runway, seperated by the airfield hangars and control tower. Since, the airfield only uses the 1300m runway, as a result of an expansion of Nordholz Air Base. To support the change in runway, the controltower was turned 180 degrees and relocated to the other side of the stationbuilding.


The airfield photographed from the west in 2011. visible (right to left) are the Nordholz AB runway, the old Nordholz-Spieka grass runway only meters outside the air base fence, the airfield buildings and the grass glider runway. The latter became the only runway in the summer of  2014, when the airbase moved their fence north (Sfg-nordholz, via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0)