Jamník, Kasárna Mokraď [RRRR- ]

Mokraď Airport began to be built on the initiative of the Minister of Defense gen. I. tr. Ferdinand Čatloš, a native of nearby Liptovský Petr. The airport was built on a plateau, sloping steeply towards the village of Jakubovany and slightly sloping to the southeast. The airport was drained and its dimensions were 1500m x 1500m. It allowed takeoff from any direction, but due to the prevailing winds, the east-west direction was most often used.
The construction of the airport, air workshops, railway sidings, airport buildings, residential houses and other buildings was built by members of the working section (part of the 6th Robot Battalion) located in Kôprová dolina and Tichá dolina. The access roads to the airport, to Kaleník and in the Tichá and Kôprová valleys were given to the company Hynek Mužík-Kameňolomy and a timber shop. On the south side of the airport, 2 "Brno" type hangars were built.
The working department in Liptovský Petr was first commanded by Lt. František Hudák, after him (from 7.8.1943) Lt. Uram. In August 1943, the working section in Liptovský Petra had 160 non-commissioned officers and 1,795 creators (Jews and Roma). The entire group was commanded by a hundred. František Jesenský. In 1943, the air park from Trenčianske Biskupice was relocated to new buildings at Mokraď Airport near Liptovský Petr. The commander of the airport became the brother of General Ferdinand Čatloš, Lieutenant Dušan Čatloš and the commander of the fleet became Major Pavel Dragov, who at the turn of 1943/1944 was replaced by Major Kornel Jancek. The deputy commander of the air fleet was Captain Mikuláš Šumichrast and the auxiliary squadron was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Ján Dulla. Immediately upon their arrival, the fleet contacted the local anti-fascist authorities. As early as August 4, 1944, representatives of the Slovak National Council came to Liptovského Hrádku: courier major Mikuláš Lisický, lieutenant colonel MVDr.Mikuláš Ferjenčík for the Military Headquarters of the SNR and Member of Parliament for the Communist Party of Slovakia Karol Šmidke at the initiative of General Čatloš and in in accordance with the interests of the Slovak National Council, flew from the airport Mokraď on the plane Focke-Wulf Fw 58 to the Soviet Union also with the so-called ″ Čatloš Memorandum ″. The organizer of the whole event was the centurion Ján Juraj Stanek.
On August 28, 1944, Captain D. Kunic took advantage of the absence of the fleet commander, Major Janček, loyal to the government regime, and took command. After the arrival of the entire 180-member crew, he freed officers, sergeants and soldiers from subordination to President Tis and called on them to fight against fascism and its domestic helpers. Most fleet members, civilian employees and some members of the National Defense Working Corps joined the uprising. On the same day, Capt. Volyansky and Major Makarov from the 2nd Czechoslovak Partisan Brigade for the Freedom of the Slavs arrived at the airport together with members of the Revolutionary National Committee in Liptovský Hrádok Martin Nahálek, Rudolf Sokol, Ferdinand Šoltýs, along with five other partisans.
After the declaration of the uprising on August 29, 1944, Mokraď Airport was assigned a significant role. Ammunition and material for the rebel army were to be transported here. Therefore, the airport staff was constantly ready to receive Soviet transport aircraft, which, however, due to bad weather and the waiting position of the Soviet command did not arrive. In the first days of the uprising, the airport had three aircraft of Italian production Savoia Marchetti SM-84bis, one observation Š-328 a školské lietadlá E-39. However, the aircraft had no pilots or crews.Nevertheless, from the end of August to the first days of September 1944, an air survey of the movement of German troops on the Š-328 aircraft, piloted by fleet officers, was carried out daily. As part of the first mobilization, reservists boarded Mokraď and two teams of partisans from Podbrezová strengthened the defense of the airport. From the airport from Poprad the remnants of Squadron 41 and technical squadron with two aircraft Š-328. This made it possible to intensify research into the territory occupied by the enemy. The German command knew about this activity, and therefore on August 31, 1944, the airport was attacked by two raids. Two German Junkers aircraft Ju 87 "Stuka ″ attacked the hangars. In the fire that caused the raid, three destroyed planes were parked in hangars, but there were no casualties. During the raid, insurgent units scattered in the area and some of them hid in nearby Jamník. In addition to aircraft, an oil depot was destroyed at the airport. On the night of September 4-5, 1944, the chief of the military defense area in Liptovský Mikuláš, the captain of the General Staff Ján Straka ordered to evacuate Mokraď Airport by the morning of September 5 and move the crew to the defensive section of Biely Potok in Revúcká dolina. The planes flew to the airport at night Tri Duby, the team moved together with volunteer partisans from the surrounding villages to Liptovská Settlements and just before the arrival of the German battalion SS Schäffer, the technical platoon also left Mokrad. Members of the fleet, which expired, were included in VI. tactical group as an infantry battalion also referred to as the ″ air battalion ″ and after the reorganization of the infantry battalion LEV, commanded by Captain Kunic and his deputy was Captain Šumichrast. After the airport was occupied by German troops in the number of 2,000 men, led by Major Schäffer, the airport's defense system was improved with an air bunker around the perimeter of the building and an anti-tank moat. The airport served as a supply center for aircraft of the German Luftwaffe, and the construction of an underground factory near its facilities began, where German aiming devices were to be installed.
Mokraď Airport, as one of the main enemy centers in Horní Liptov, was raided several times by partisan units in October 1944. The biggest partisan action was the fall of Mokrade on the night of October 16-17, 1944. Adverse weather and the unexpected transfer of German troops to Liptovský Hrádok caused changes in the thoroughly prepared plan of the event. After artillery training on the night of October 17, partisans from the High Tatras unit attacked the airport. Under the protection of artillery fire, they reached the German bunkers, most of which were destroyed by grenades and penetrated the airport grounds. They set fire to planes and hangars and took the seized weapons and ammunition to their base under Krížná in the wagons of farmers from Vavrišov.
On January 29, 1945, the advance of the liberation troops at Važec stopped. To accelerate the advance of troops commander of the 4th Ukrainian Front Army General I.J. Petrov ordered the partisan units to occupy strategic objects in the rear of the enemy: Liptovský Hrádok and Liptovský Peter together with the airport in Mokrada. The partisan units of Abuladze and Stadnik began attacking Mokrad on January 28, 1945. German troops set fire to air hangars, destroyed most of the buildings and, in retreat, conditioned the bridge over the Belá in Liptovský Hrádok. Prior to the retreat in Jamník, the German command of the Wetland had it blown up so that citizens could take what they needed from the airport's inventory, and at the appointed hour when the objects were to fly into the air, there was a curfew and arches should be opened on each house to
the wave did not break. The mentioned inventory of the airport had to be returned by the inhabitants of the village after the war. The partisan group captured 7 Hungarian and two German soldiers in the fighting near Liptovský Petra. On January 29, 1945, German Major Kurt ?, commander of the destruction unit at Mokraď Airport, was shot dead in the presence of the commander of the partisan group, Timofej Maximovič Stadnik, and his body was buried in a nearby grove.
On January 31, 1945, the front troops of the units of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps appeared on the territory of Horní Liptov. Tired soldiers of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps were on command of General Ludvík Svoboda replaced by the 1st Czechoslovak Independent Brigade and the 3rd Czechoslovak a separate brigade. On the mentioned day, German troops definitively left Mokraď Airport and the buildings were occupied by the 6th Battalion of Major František Moravec from the 3rd Czechoslovak Independent Brigade. One German sniper allegedly remained hidden at the airport, giving German troops information from enemy rear during subsequent operations.


After the war, the Mokraď barracks complex was the seat of the following components:


- Air Work Division (1.9.1949)
- 2. rota 1. air construction battalion (from 1950)
- 3rd and 6th Company 54th Auxiliary Technical Battalion (1951)
- 4th Training Squadron (1950-1951)
- Air Base 12 (12th Airport Authority) (1950-1951)
- 2nd School Battalion LTU (1951-1952)
- School of Junior Aviation Technical Specialists (1952-1953)
- a separate part of the Aviation Technical School (LTU) (since 1959 TU - Technical School) (1953 (1959) -1973)
- Military Secondary School of Electrical Engineering - Radar (VSOŠER) (1967-YYYY)
- part of the Military Military Technical School (VVTŠ) (from 1973-YYYY)


In the barracks in Mokradi within the Technical School and VSOŠER, students and students of the school and school were first trained at PLRK SA-75 DVINA, later on S-75 VOLCHOV, S-125 NEVA, 2K11 KRUG, 2K12 KUB, 9K32 STRELA-2, 9K33 OSA, 9K35 SHOT-10, anti-aircraft cannons, various types of radars and automated fire command and control systems. Combat shooting was carried out only from 57 mm vz. ČS, 57 mm PLK S-60, 30 mm PLdvK vz. 53/59 a PPLRK 9K32M STRELA-2M na PL shooting range Dvorce in VVP Javorina at the end of the school before graduation.


At present, on the site of the former field airport, there is only an asphalt runway about 500 m long and about 25 m wide, serving civil aviation ( 49 ° 05'46.13 "N 19 ° 44'03.56" E[/coord ])




Source:
www.liponet.sk
www.vojenstvi.cz - question no. 201, 1655,
www.forum.csla.cz
Mgr. Peter Vítek: The Story of the Slovak National Uprising in Horny Liptov

Re: currently there is only an asphalt runway with a length of approx. 500 m and a width of approx. 25 m on the site of the former field airfield, serving civil aviation (49°05'46.13 "N 19°44'03.56 "E)


My clarification:
Following this information, I would like to point out that the mentioned tarmac runway is not related to the Mokrad airport at all and is about 2.5 km away from the Mokrad airport area. The airfield at the above coordinates was built at the beginning of the 80's under the direction of the then JRD Liptovský Ondrej and was used for pulverizing aircraft for agricultural purposes. Nowadays it is practically no longer used for its original purpose. The L. Ondrej agroforestry site is occasionally used by farmers for agrotechnical exhibitions and other social events.


See for example:
www.vrtulniky.sk
www.todoliptov.sk
www.autoslalom.sk

The porovnanie prikladám takes two pohľady on Mokraď of air snímkovania of 1950 and gúglu 2015..

In 2013 he won the auction on an object kasární including priľahlého airport nitriansky podnikateľ. From zmluvy but odstúpil and kasárne are again voľné.

Source: liptov.sme.sk.

For several years the Mokraď barracks building was listed as unusable state property and efforts were made to sell it off. As mentioned above - at least once the building was sold, but the buyer subsequently withdrew from the contract. As of 2021, it was decided to reuse the building for the needs of the Slovak Armed Forces (I have not yet been able to find the exact date, but this information is contained in the answer to the question of the TATRY Civic Association, submitted on the basis of the 2021 Info Act and published in the article 1.12.2021 - see annex). According to the draft of the internal organizational breakdown of the Slovak Armed Forces as of 31.12.2024, which was submitted for inter-ministerial comment procedure under No. LP/2022/612, this object is predestined for use by the 52nd Airborne Battalion. This information was also presented on the Special Operations Forces Headquarters page and also on the FB page of the Slovak Armed Forces (16 February 2023 in an advertisement seeking new colleagues).


In March 2022, the construction of a tent camp for refugees from Ukraine started at the facility. In addition to the soldiers of the Slovak Armed Forces (52nd Airborne Battalion), members of the Czech Armed Forces also took part in its construction and also provided its operation.

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