Weddewarden Airfield

The Weddewarden airfield in Bremerhaven, near the district of Weddewarden, was built in 1925 as a civil aviation traffic landing site. After military use, it has been an industrial and commercial area since the 1990s.

From 1925 to 1927, a traffic landing site was established between the towns of Weddewarden and Speckenbüttel. The location was ideal, as the port area of Bremerhaven was situated to the south and there were no buildings in the immediate vicinity. Already in 1927, there was a bus line with a stop at the airfield. Flight operations began in 1928. In 1927, Lufthansa opened a flight base here and operated flights to Helgoland with seaplanes; additionally, there was a scheduled service from Hamburg via Bremerhaven to Wangerooge – Norderney – Borkum with aircraft of the type Junkers F 13. In 1932, the airfield was classified as an airport of the 2nd order. Shortly thereafter, the facility had to cease operations.

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