Raffelding

48°17'33"N 014°03'20"E (estimated)

Runway: N/A - flying field - grass

Raffelding airfield (German: Feldflugplatz Raffelding) was an emergency (wartime) airfield 180 kilometers west of Vienna in what was then Nazi-German territory.
It is not clear when the airfield was built, but it was in use since August 1944. Luftwaffe units operating from the airfield were:
1.Staffel/JG105 between August 1944 and April 1945
I Gruppe/KG27 between November 1944 and April 1945
3.Staffel/JG105 in March and April 1945
II.Gruppe/JG52 between 28 April 1945 and 1 May 1945
4.Staffel/NJG100 and an unspecified Schlacht Gruppe in the chaotic last days of the Reich in early May 1945.
Most of the units that operated from Raffelding near the end of the war were not complete, they were haphazardly flown from eastern Europe in an effort to defend the Reich. For many of the pilots it was probably also an effort go not get stuck in Eastern Europe as a Russian POW.
American fighterbombers hit the airfield in May before the American Rainbow Division took control of the area only just before Red Army troops arrived.


No photos of the airfield were located

In 1955, hardened areas of the airfield were used by local tennisclub URTC Eferding to play their games. The magazine "Wochenspiegel" announced in  1956 that 103 Hectares of the former airfield were to be returned to the original owners. The tennisclub managed to get its own premises the following year.
Today, nothing is left of the former airfield