The airfield lies in the municipality of Dreschvitz in its subdistrict of Güttin, about 8 kilometres south of the town of Bergen next to the B 96 federal road.

In Teschenhagen there are hourly connexions at peak times on the RegionalExpress to Stralsund, and to Bergen auf Rügen.

The airfield started life as an agricultural airstrip in Güttin with a grass runway.

After being exclusively used for agricultural flights from 1982 to 1990, in summer 1990 the first round trips over the island were offered, initially with agricultural aircraft of type Let Z-37 and Antonow (AN-2)[2] In the years after 1990 the first charter flights to Bornholm, Berlin-Tempelhof and Hamburg were added.

In 1995 a hangar with a floor area of 20x30 metres was built and PAPI landing lights installed.