Post on osthessen-zeitung.de, published on February 29.2.2024, XNUMX
Gersfeld (pm/as) – As the “Mountain of Aviators”, the Wasserkuppe offers the most traditional background that enthusiastic aviation enthusiasts could ever wish for. The Wasserkuppe flying school is located at the place where gliding was “invented”. In 1911, Darmstadt students started their first flight attempts with gliders on a tree-free hilltop in the Rhön in Hesse and developed the art of engineless flying.
After the First World War, under the strict conditions of the Treaty of Versailles, which banned powered flight in Germany after the First World War, more and more aviation enthusiasts came to the Wasserkuppe to test completely different concepts of gliders, take-off techniques and the use of buoyancy. The construction of the first flight school on the Wasserkuppe began in 1924 - in August the “Martens Flight School” building, as the flight school was called at the time, was built. Fritz Stamer, who also designed the “White Seagulls” as an emblem of the Wasserkuppe, was hired as the first teacher.
