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The Tempelhof Airport is probably by far neither the most beautiful nor the largest airport - but located quite downtown Berlin its walls are at least packed (and partly covered) with Berlin/German history
I joined a guided tour through the Airport Tempelhof - and took the oportunity to take some pictures. The tour led us through some areas of the building - according to this the selection of images differs a lot: from the roof top of the airport with a nice view to the maneuvering area to the basement of the building with it's spacious cellars, connection tunnels and air-raid shelters we gained some insight into the dimensions of this largest building of all Europe (rated by the square meters).
A view on an air photograph gives you a glimpse of how large the building actually is - and where all those square meters could be hidden: the actual terminal of the airport is the rather small building in the very middle of the picture..
a walk through the building is only the one of two possible touristic ways of getting closer to the airport - the other option could be a sightseeing flight with a so called raisin bomber - on this picture you can see it landing..
again the so called raisin bomber
and again the so called raisin bomber - with some tourists, freshly landed and deboarded, taking pictures of the historical plane
view to one of the tunnels underneith the Airport Tempelhof - this one is used by trains and cars - and still in use..
underneith the Airport different types of air-raid shelters can still be found - this one 'nicely' decoreated
on the 'Platz der Luftbrücke' ('Airlift Square') you can find the monument for the Airlift that supplied West-Berlin with food during the Berlin-Bockade (June 24, 1948 to May 11, 1949)
see also:
Tempelhof - an Historical Guided Tour
Glimpses of the history of Tempelhof Airport
and then there's also another picture-album with
45 images of the other Berlin inner city airport Tegel |
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