Aachen Merzbrück Airfield

The airfield was built about 1914 as a grass airfield, and throughout the 1930s was used by small light aircraft. After the First World War in 1919, it was taken over by Belgium occupying power and used as a military airfield and expanded accordingly. In 1929, the Belgian soldiers withdrew and the airfield became a civilian airfield. In 1930, the airship, Graf Zeppelin landed and took off in Merzbrück as part of a sightseeing flight in the Rhineland. In 1931, a line connection to Cologne Butzweilerhof Airport was set up, which was operated with the Junkers G 24 until 1935. In 1935, the regular scheduled flight to Cologne was discontinued for economic reasons. In 1932, the world's largest airplane at that time, the Junkers G 38, landed in Merzbrück.

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