Airport Gilze-Rijen
The airport in Gilze-Rijen, in German "Fliegerhorst Gilze-Rijen", was during the Dutch mobilization 1914-1918 in the First World War used for military purposes.
Shortly before the Second World War, it was expanded with the civilian airport Nerhoven.
During World War II, the military and the civilian airport were merged by the Germans and they added another big piece of land to it.
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Source
- Text: TracesOfWar.com
- Photos: Willem van de Poll / Anefo
- GRIMM, P. e.a., Vliegvelden in oorlogstijd, Boom, Amsterdam, 2017.
Nearby
Point of interest
- Memory Route World War ll Trooper Barracks Destroyed Rijen - Rijen (Gilze en Rijen)
- Memory Route World War ll Lederfabriek North Brabant Burned in Rijen - Rijen (Gilze en Rijen)
- Memory Route World War ll Hulten Bombing - Hulten (Gilze en Rijen)
Monument
- Memorial Dambuster Crew S for Sugar - Gilze-Rijen
- Liberation Route Marker 143 - Rijen (Gilze-Rijen)
- Memorial Killed N.S. Employee Rijen - Rijen (Gilze en Rijen)
Cemetery
- Graves Civilian Victims Catholic Cemetery Hulten - Hulten (Gilze en Rijen)
- Commonwealth War Graves Roman Catholic Cemetery Gilze - Gilze (Gilze en Rijen)
- Collective Grave Civilian Casualties Roman Catholic Cemetery Gilze - Gilze (Gilze en Rijen)
Remembrance Stone
- Stumbling Stone Hoogstraat 80 - Oosterhout
- Stumbling Stone Klappeijstraat 46 - Oosterhout
- Stumbling Stone Leijsenhoek 73 - Oosterhout
Fortification
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