The old airport of Frankfurt. What a place to show for “conservation”! When the Frankfurt airport, the one that is today the hub of German air traffic, was built in the 1930s, Frankfurt already had an airport, near Bonames, an old part of the city. … Continue reading A Good Place to Rest
I never realised that listen and silent are anagrams. And doesn’t this quiet river bend just beg one to be silent and listen?
All the more remarkable because this is in the middle of Frankfurt, a city with three quarters of a million inhabitants, in a part called Bonames. The name goes back to Roman times, probably meaning that there was a bona mansio, a good wayside inn when a Roman highroad led past the area. Not far from this idyllic stretch of the river Nidda was the old Frankfurt airport which was used until 1992 as a helicopter airport by the US American army.
Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Quiet.
There once was an American airfield (Maurice Rose Airfield) in the north of Frankfurt. It was used for helicopters and light aircraft. It was given up in 1992 and the area was actively reformed to become part of the Frankfurt green belt, a landscape conservation area. The runway was made narrower but the length of 750 metres was kept.
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