VIETMANNSDORF (SCHORFHEIDE) AIRFIELD

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• Publication Date: December 16, 1953
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE .AGENCY REPORT NO,
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.,
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Vi_etannsdorf (Schorfheide) Airfield
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could be started.
ay north of the runway; additional clearin8work was necessary before this work
and 116, northwest of Kurt'hlag; a standard-gauge trabk `trfich ranched off
from the spur track to the5ieTd was being laid to tl o be b~p by the pri ate
firm of, Guenter; grading wth k on ? the -dispersal areas at the ends of the r-u ay
was completed and, on 16 Se pter.:ber, concreting work was started'; the Bauunii,:tn
Brandenburg received the contract for the construction in 1954 of a second
`Voncreting work: on the runway wad mp._et d in September. Only repair work way
ptil`1 being done on the runway, 1 Irthe fu .dump, in forest subdistrict (Jager,
162,.: excavation work %ras under way on round holes, each about 18 meters in dia-
met& and about la6 meters deep, rhich Wefe provided with concrete walls, about
1 meter thi:k. Concreting work was still doing on at the beginning of October,
In the same area of the round hobs was d lectangular excavation which, accnord-
Ing to a surveyor, was intended ` for the pumping house.
wasAtrdneferred to the constructic tc
.at Tutow airMld at_. ._en or p ember or at the beginning of October 1953..
Allegedly; workers were also 'to leave Schorfheide for Tutow in the near future.
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the -rst construction stage will be terminated by, 31 October 1953 and that ttla
step included work on the rufiaay, the toutiern taxiway with hardstands, and
bad irks;`installationa, witb7a, total -expened, of 33 million eastmarks. I 25X1
I I a_ivm of 16 million east*arks was allotted for the second
construction stage, which included undergrour}d installations. Allegedly, the
entire building expenses were estimated at; about '3O i4llion eastmarks.
In Septensber, work waAs being done on a-.dra.page system along the runway. Dra_tnage
pipes were being laid' ,n ditches, 80 car: deep ,and 1 meter wide and filled with
crushed stones, both sides of the t'unway. The same drainage system was planned
to be built, along the taxiway, connecting 1ahes and #Tnir roads.
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6. Of the billeting buildings, two blocks and the headquarters building tom.-re
occupied in October 1953. One quartering block housed Soviet women, roe.;':; ref
them wearing civilian clothes, who supervised German women engaged in sub.-
sequent treatment (sic) on the concreted areas. The other block housed cu1y soldte:
and the headquarters building housed the Soviet construction staff and th e
guard detail.
7. Work on the southern taxiway was intended to be completed by lik October
The filling of joints progressed only slowly as the edges had to to smoothed.
Allegedly, work on the northern taxiway t'aEs to start this year although the
course of the taxiway had not yet been staked off. During the winter nicnths
of 1953/1954:, concrete units for shrapnelproof aircraft revetments are .t, be
manufaetured. The construction of the revelments themselves as been scheduled
to start in 1954.
8. Upon completion iof the runway, the joints between the concrete slabs were be-
ing filled in at the beginning of October 3.953. At the same time., clearing,
work on the runway was started from its eastern end. Of the southern to ivay.
three s,.trips, eaash 7 meters wide, were concreted from the western corner cf
the runway as fag as marker No 43. From the eastern corner of the runwa,
two 7-meter-wide concrete strips were completed as far as marker 81 and, the
middle strip was concreted as far as marker 62. he filling of joints wa.ss
simultaneously started from the eastern seas'.
9.. Concreting work was started on fo' r of the six excavated holes in the t i
damp in Jagen 162. The Miner walls were provided with concrete linings, sssape 5X1
like cylinders, 80 em thick and 2.3 meters deep. Between the four holes times
another excavation, 8 meters square and 1.5 meters deep, which was prov _d,ed. yw-itdh
a 26-cm-thick brick wall and a 15-cm concrete bottom,
a pumping station was being built there. The other two *s ceva ted
o es were be provided with the plarxkir: ;s for concreting work the week
following 10 October. The excavated holes located 60 meters scuth of th:A ..,
way and north of the railroad line in Jager. 161 and 158 were about 20C meters
long, 50 meteor wide and 8 meters deeps two addttknal fuel
dumps were to be established there. After the excavation work, no other ivc.rk 25X1
had been done there between 5 and 10 October.
10. Construction wo was started on dispersal, areas, referred to as "harps",
north of the western end of the runway and south of its eastern end. TWWlte
concrete? strips, each 43.47 meters long, 6 meters wide, 15 am thick and 10
meters apart, were being built. On the site south of the east and of tba run-
way, grading work was completed and concreting work had not yet been at.rted
as of 10 October. A concrete road with a turning apron was planned to be establist-
ed 'along the northern and southern edges of the dispersal areas respect ely.
11. About 350 meters east-southeast of triangulation point 95, a railroad rLding
branched off from the spur track which extended from Vogelsang; to the a r-
field. The siding led to the southeast. In early October, an 6-meter-Awe con-
crete road, parallel to the railroad siding, was half completed. This rca.d
with a 20-cm-thick concrete cover was to lead as far as the Kurtschlag-a.ehdenick
.road;, Two additional roads. were planned. !urge-scale excavation work.
was under way south of the spur track leading t:, the field and west of .h 1<
road siding near triangulation point 9,5. 125X1
a bomb dump was to be established there.
12. As reported previously, a clearing was cut to the east from the Vietmannsdorf?,.
Gross Doelin road, 150 meters south of the path leading from Grunwald ?so
Gollin Lake. In this clearing,.in late September and early October, an approach
road was being built to a loading ramp under construction. This road w about
.650 meters long, 5 meters wide and was to be provided with a 15-cm concrete
cover. Previously, the width was erroneously reported as 4 meters. At the end
of the road was a concrete approach to the ramp, 15 meters wide, about 10 meters
long and had a rise of about 6 percent. The ramp was IOC meters long and 25
meters wide. At its longitudinal edges was a concrete wall which was O cm
thick at the top and 1 meter at the bottom. The space between the concrete
walls was not yet filled.
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13. A stretch beginning at the southeastern corner of the southern taxiway ai-,
marker 104 was staked off toward the Beber Lake in a southeasterly c.ir c`?.,_c=..
The markers, which were 40 meters apart, had numbers from 105 to 130.
14. In late Sept nber, concreting work on the southern taxiway progressed =e.1,
while work was started on the concrete top layer of the large disper ~ :rem
at the northwestern corner of the runway. The spur roads, which extend .:X]
parallel to the taxiways branching off from the runway ends to the sou.' 1..
had been given a 15-cm concrete top layer. The runway was subsequently
ed and the joints were being filled. 1
15. In late September, concrete samples, 1x1.5 meters, were broken out of ;11(, T-
way at various spots. the manoaitor 25X1
used for the pressure tests made on concrete cubes at the field bore a.lbassian
inscription although it had been manufactured in Leipzig. The indicate- had
three rings of fighres and indicated pressures from 1 to ,3C0 tons. Aft. 'ar -dl=
tests, the load factor was written with blue chalk on the concrete cut , Th.
following figures could be determined: 28/14, 23/11, 21/18, and 31/25. 3
16. cons tructiob work was being done on a loading ramp with two ascents sc rt3
of the taxiway, near the spur track. The apron J Z front of the ramp hs ! az
connecting road, about 500 meters long., to the Vietmannsdorf-Cross DocUn
road.
In September, the kitchens, HO stores and shop of the consumers' assoc'.a-~io-,
moved into the building next to the headquarters building. Almost ever -7 ay;.
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18. Or_ 25 September, the VEB Anlagenbau Berlin received an order, designa,
Project No 101, by the Soviet construction staff, Leipzig, via the M1dz s'.r
for Engineering. The order involved the construction of a high tensiot.
station for the large underground tank installation, consisting of .`ou.
'boilers, at Schorfheide airfield. The Soviet construction staff allott,, an
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ground communication trenches.
19.' On 29 September, Lieutenant Colonel Khomutov (feu), chief of donstz not.1o.t
staff No 101 at Schorfheide airfield, was in the headquarters build:J.x ? , '
The barracks installations housed the Soviet construction staff, Soidt".' -3ol--
diers and Soviet civilian employees. The area of the brick quartering r. .:aldh.hags
was surrounded by a wire fence on three sides and a wooden fence with :i gate
along the northern edge. A Soviet soldier wearing red-bordered blac.t -atet~~
and armed with a pistol was posted at this gate. The U--shaped bui].diz* wus-
iug a kitchen at the eastern section was located outside of the wire tae.
This building housed messhalls, a canteen of the HO (Trade Crganizat4 n aDd one
the consumers' association, since the former HO barracks had been buu Ed 101M
in September. The place where the HO barracks had formerly been leeatl :eras
surrounded by a wire fence.
20. In early October, the filling of joints on the runway was completed fr-an the
eastern section as far as Jagen 1 9/190. This work still continued. At various
spots, cubes of concrete had been broken out of the runway, probably for
pressure tests.
21. Concreting work on the taxiway was scheduled to be completed by mid??-October,.
parallel.to the taxiways which branched off from the east and west ends of the
runway to the south, there were concrete lanes, 8 meters wide and with. a 15--cm.
concrete cover, on the inside of the field. The strips between the t.:a?iways
and the eonerete lanes were covered with grass. Each of the taxiways c.onais ted
of three concrete strips each 40 cm thick.
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22. Work was started on two strips, each about 200 meters long and 60 meters
wide; one strip was at the northern edge of the western end of the rv~.nvay
and the other one was at the southern edge of the eastern end of the run-
way. These strips which extended in northwest-southeast direction were pro-
bably to serve as dispersal areas. There were 13 grass-covered strip on
the entire area. The strip at the western and of the runway was provadsd
with a concrete layer of 15 am. The areas were referred to as harps by
the construction workers. Additional dispersal areas were being built at
the western and eastern connection lanes.
23. Four round holes, each about 19 meters in diameter, were excavated 1c_ Jagen
162, north of the railroad line, west of the railroad siding. A concrete
base, about 70 cm thick, was completed in two holes. Splinterproof linings
were to be built on the. bases. These walls were to project about 1 meter
beyond the surface of the ground and their upper ends were to be 35 -z r
think. Allegedly, fuel containers, about 16 meters in diameter, were to
be placed in the middle of concrete-lined holes. Source made a sketdl of
such a concrete base. 1
24. A second track, approximately as long as a freight train (sin) , was being laid
next to the railroad line which ran directly south of Puetgestell, iR??. the
southern section of Jagen 199, east of the Viet&nannsdorf-Gross Doellu road.
The new track branched off and terminated in this railroad line. Its
western end was about 100 meters east of the Vietinannsdorf.Gross Doe:=.1n
road. a loading ra:np was under construction beteen
'the two tracks. Construction work was being done on a concrete road :rotth
of the new trackage. The road branched off from the Vietmannedorf-Grtsa
Doelln road toward the east.
25. At the end of September and the beginning of October, clearing work eras
being done on stretches, 80G to 1,000 meters long, in the eastern aml
western extensions of the runway. A road, 10 to 12 meters wide, was being
built from the old Zehdenick road to the woods camp in the north. In a
few days, work was to start on a concrete top layer, 15 o?ri thick. Al?.aged-
ly, three ramps were to be built along the western side of the road us far
as the eastern side of the new track.
26.
2,114 laborers and of ber peraonns:
were employed by the Bauurdon Brandenburg on 10 October 1953.
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work at Schorfb e r again in ca e s construction project
is of great significance. For locations of fuel dump in Jagen 162 and dis-
persal areas, referred to as harps, see Annex 1. For sketch of concrete bass.
of fuel container, see Annex 2. The locations of all other landmarks mentioned
in this report are'entered on Map GSGS 4414, sheet 20,46/47.
2. Comment. The. information on the construction costs is received for
the first time and indicates the extent of the project.
3. 1Ce=ent. The reported load factors resulting from pressure testis
cannot be commented on. It appears possible that not only pressure tests
but also breaking tests were made.
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L_LC7=ent. Lieutenant Colonel Khomutov has been repeatedly report ad
as the chief of the Soviet construction staff at Schorfheide airfield.
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Legend:
Schorfheide A.irfiel.d
1 Twelve strips, referred to as harps, each 8 meters wide,
43-47 meters long and 10 meters apart; first strip begir i
9C meters east of western end of the runway
1 a Planned road with turning apron
2 Planned 12 strips south of runway
Fuel dump with six holes, each 20 meters in diameter and l 5
meters deep
4 Pimping station, 8 meters square
5 and 6 Excavated strips, each 200 meters long, 50 meters wide a,,4
8 meters deep, for additional fuel dumps
7 Concrete approach rcn.d to loading ramp
8 Ascent to loading ramp, rising by 1.6 meters; ascent is C meters
long and 15 meters wide
Ramp 100 meters long and 25 meters wide
10 Staked-off strip in the woods, scheduled for road
11 and 12 Hardstands at taxiway, each 180 meters square
13, 14, ) Round sections at hErdstands, not yet concreted
15 and 16)
17 and 20 Lanes for fuel trucks, each 8 meters wide
18 and 19 Grass strips, 2C meters wide, between lanes and taxiway
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