Let's Zeppelin!
- Price for the tour 700 to 1.050 DKK(depending on guide/number)
- Maximum 20 participants
- Duration 0 - 1 hours
- Distance 4 Km.
- Type City walk
- Meeting point Gasværkvej 1
- Tour ends Gasværkvej 1
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- Takes place in this country Denmark
Let's Zeppelin!
In Soldaterskoven, the Soldiers' Forest there was a base for airships, also known as Zeppelins. Here, men from the imperial navy lived and worked in the northernmost part of the empire.
The crews flew out over the North Sea to keep an eye on the British fleet, perhaps even dropping bombs on England. They lived with constant challenges and threats: Hydrogen explodes very easily, and the wind often ruled more over the airships than their captains did. It was deadly dangerous up there.
The gigantic hangars are now gone, but the remains of the foundations are still out there in the forest. One building remains: The hangar for the planes that were supposed to look after the large and slow zeppelins.
The base actually got into real war. Was hit in probably the world's first attack from planes sent off from an aircraft carrier from Great Britain. More will not be revealed here.