[RolandF]

Thanks Carl, for this striking explanation of the Wertheim Bf109 production - or let´s better say "final assembly"
This explains why Flossenbürg-camoed K-4s appear here, the "snake"-sprayed 109s coming obviously from Bodenwöhr. The winter season can be very hard in our part of Germany and I remember a picture of W.Nr.332 707 standing in heaps of snow.
But something else must have happened in the Vilseck - Amberg-Schafhof area in this months. A/B 43 and A/B 121 ceased to train pilots in January 1945 and from mid-February on IV./SG 151, 7./SG 151 and 10./SG 151 took their base at Schafhof, thus changing to an operational airfield. Not a good place for acceptance flights.
But the K-4s standing on the "Holzrückeweg" look as if the engines had been removed in Wertheim or on the way there. Bad weather conditions on transport? As the production pictures show, the Bf109K-4 fuselages left Flossenbürg with completed engine units. Are there any explanations?

Matthias, there´s a direct railway leading from Bodenwöhr to Vilseck via Schwandorf junction (heavily bombed on April 17, 1945) , Amberg(passing Schafhof airfield) and Neukirchen.

Regards

Roland