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Fessenheim

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Fessenheim, Mairie
Fessenheim, Mairie

Fessenheim (French pronunciation: [fɛsənaim] ; Alsatian: Fassene) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It is known for: its hydroelectric power plant on the Grand Canal d'Alsace (built 1953–1956, inaugurated 1957); the Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant next to the Grand Canal d'Alsace, formerly the oldest in service in France since 1977 until it shut down in 2020; a road and pedestrian bridge over the Rhine (210 m long, 7 m wide) to Hartheim in Germany since 2006; the Victor Schœlcher museum, honoring the 19th Century Abolitionist Victor Schœlcher whose father, Marc Schœlcher, was born in Fessenheim.

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Fessenheim
Rue des Serruriers, Colmar-Ribeauvillé

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N 47.9156 ° E 7.5367 °
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68740 Colmar-Ribeauvillé
Grand Est, France
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Bremgarten Airport
Bremgarten Airport

Bremgarten Airport (ICAO code: EDTG) is a special-use airfield and former military airfield located in the municipalities of Hartheim-Bremgarten and Eschbach in the Breisgau region of Baden-Württemberg. It is used by the Immelmann Sports Flying Group and several companies in the aviation sector. The Breisgau inter-municipal business park was developed on the site of the former military base, and its operating company also maintains the airfield. In 2011, the airfield recorded approximately 45,000 aircraft movements. In 1950, NATO decided to build a base for the French Air Force southwest of Freiburg im Breisgau, in the immediate vicinity of the municipality of Bremgarten. Construction began in 1952. Further north in the Baden Rhine Plain, the Söllingen and Lahr military airfields were being built at the same time. The airfield was named after the then independent municipality of Bremgarten, as the construction management was located there. The buildings were mostly built on land belonging to the municipality of Eschbach, which became a garrison town. The infrastructure was completed by the beginning of 1954. On March 31, the Base aérienne Tactique 136 (BAT.136) relocated from Friedrichshafen Airport to its new base near the Rhine border with France. It initially served as the base for the 4e demi-brigade de chasse, a fighter squadron equipped with the Dassault Ouragan. Later, it flew the Republic F-84 Thunderjet. From 1968 the German Air Force reconnaissance wing Aufklärungsgeschwader 51 used the base.