Zeppelin Museum Zeppelinheim
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Zeppelin Museum Zeppelinheim is located in Neu-Isenburg
near Frankfurt am Main. The design of the museum building, constructed in 1988, resembles a quarter section of the hull of the LZ 10. The transport airships Graf Zeppelin
and Hindenburg
, as well as the second Graf Zeppelin
(LZ 130), were based near the present site of the museum, on a site later occupied by the Rhein-Main Air Base
.
Neu-Isenburg
The “Huguenot Town” of Neu-Isenburg with its outlying centres of Gravenbruch and Zeppelinheim is found in the Offenbach district in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany, right near Frankfurt am Main...
near Frankfurt am Main. The design of the museum building, constructed in 1988, resembles a quarter section of the hull of the LZ 10. The transport airships Graf Zeppelin
LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin
LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin was a German built and operated passenger-carrying hydrogen-filled rigid airship which operated commercially from 1928 to 1937. It was named after the German pioneer of airships, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, who was a Graf or Count in the German nobility. During its operating life,...
and Hindenburg
LZ 129 Hindenburg
LZ 129 Hindenburg was a large German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the Hindenburg class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume...
, as well as the second Graf Zeppelin
LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin
The Graf Zeppelin II was the last of the great German rigid airships built by the Zeppelin Luftschiffbau during the period between the World Wars, the second and final ship of the Hindenburg class named in honor of Paul von Hindenburg...
(LZ 130), were based near the present site of the museum, on a site later occupied by the Rhein-Main Air Base
Rhein-Main Air Base
Rhein-Main Air Base was a U.S. Air Force / NATO military airbase near the city of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It occupied the south side of Frankfurt International Airport. Its airport codes are discontinued....
.