Don't like your noisy neighbours? Well you'd probably like them even less if they were not human, but instead a collection of howling jet engines.
Such was the fate of Kursdorf, a tiny medieval village in Saxony in eastern Germany, which was once an idyllic rural community, but became trapped inside the grounds of Leipzig/Halle International Airport - one of the continent's busiest cargo hubs - as the area faced rapid industrialisation pre- and post-WWII.
How did this happen? And how did the story of Kursdorf and its residents end? Join me on a trip to a German car park to figure things out.
00:00 Intro
00:21 Leipzig Airport
01:22 Kursdorf
03:18 The Jet Age
05:01 East German shenanigans
06:35 The modern era
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Photo sources:
Photographisches Institut der ETH Zürich
Military Airfields Directory (mil-airfields.de)
US Geological Survey
