#lostplace #urbex #abandoned #germany #abandonedplacesgermany Hello my friends, today we are exploring the abandoned Schönwalde air base with my tour buddy @adventureatze. We have our backpacks with us full of food and flashlights and are setting off on a new journey through a deserted world of lost places. It is a two-part tour through the entire abandoned air base, which we were given with permission from the town of Schönwalde. Many thanks to Schönwalde Wohnen GmbH & Co. KG for allowing us to enter the site. Many thanks also to Mandy... https://www.instagram.com/adventures_... And many thanks also to Rico... https://www.instagram.com/adventures_... Who took the drone footage for us in this video with the DJI - Mini 3 Pro. Here are a few facts about Schönwalde air base: Schönwalde airfield is a former military airfield in the Havelland district. It is located east of the municipality of Schönwalde-Glien and southwest of Hennigsdorf near Berlin. The secret plans for the rearmament of Germany already envisaged the construction of an airfield in the area mentioned in 1934. In 1935, the Reich Aviation Ministry bought large pieces of land in the area of ​​the future airfield and began to build wooden barracks to house the people who would work there. Extensive ground work made it possible to drain the future airfield. In several construction phases, a complete air base with a concrete and illuminated runway, as well as radio beacons and several hangars was built by 1939. The airfield was directly connected to the Bötzow railway and also had several barracks buildings. A kitchen, a casino and an outdoor swimming pool were also built to provide supplies. In 1935, the Hennigsdorf Aviation, Training and Education Center (FÜS) moved from the nearby AEG factory airfield Nieder Neuendorf to the Schönwalde airfield, which was then still known as the Hennigsdorf sports airfield. At the end of 1936, the FÜS was converted into the Pilots' School (FFS) A/B 11, where pilots were trained for the German Air Force until 1943. In 1943, Schönwalde became the location of the supplementary and transport aviation group of the XIV Air Corps. The Schönwalde airfield, which had already been evacuated, was captured by Soviet troops on April 24, 1945 without any significant resistance. The location of the airfield in the Allied control zone and in the middle of the air corridor to Berlin, which would have required the registration of every flight movement with the Allied air traffic control center, prevented the intensive continued use of the Schönwalde site as an airfield, as did the fact that the location of the site did not allow an extension of the runway, which would have been necessary for use by the now increasingly common jet-powered aircraft. The airfield was still used as such until the mid-1950s. The first Soviet jet aircraft were stationed here. A helicopter squadron was stationed there until 1965. After 1965, the site was used by land forces of the Soviet Army as a military training area. The CIS forces stationed in Schönwalde handed the site back to German administration in 1992. On January 30, 2018, ownership of the barracks site, which can be built on, was transferred from the state of Brandenburg to Schönwalde Wohnen GmbH & Co. KG, based in Langenhagen. It can therefore be assumed that this abandoned place will soon no longer be accessible at all. Thank you for watching the video and if you want to find out more about me, please go to Instagram where there are lots of photos of my explorations... https://www.instagram.com/mt_urbanexp.... I would be very happy to receive a message or a subscription to my YouTube channel. Yours, Marc