Vaiņode

Vaiņode
Village
Vaiņode

Vaiņode's location in Latvia

Coordinates: 56°25′6.50″N 21°51′8.31″E / 56.4184722°N 21.8523083°E / 56.4184722; 21.8523083Coordinates: 56°25′6.50″N 21°51′8.31″E / 56.4184722°N 21.8523083°E / 56.4184722; 21.8523083
Country  Latvia
Municipality Vaiņode
Parish Vaiņode
First mentioned 1253
Area
 • Total 3.3 sq mi (8.5 km2)
Population (2006)
 • Total 1,944

Vaiņode (German: Wainoden) is a village in and centre of Vaiņode municipality and Vaiņode parish, Latvia. The village developed around a railway station after 1871 between Liepāja (German: Libau; Russian: Лиепая) and Mažeikiai (Polish: Możejki; German: Moscheiken).

Starting in 1916 the Imperial German Navy built north of the village a military compound with an airship yard called Luftschiffhafen Wainoden with two large airship hangars which were later transferred and used as Riga Central Market. The base was used after World War I by the Latvian army, later in World War II again by the Germans. Afterwards it was a Red Army compound and the most important military airport in the Baltic region inclusive ballistic missiles with a nuclear warheads.

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