The former site of Tempelhof Airport is now open to the public every day until sunset. With 380 hectares the new city park is bigger than Central Park in New York. The old runway in front of the historical terminal buildings offers considerable space for outdoor events, too.
The Berlin Tempelhof Airport was one of Germany’s first commercial airports. Up until 30 October 2008, it was beside Berlin Tegel and Berlin Schönefeld one of the three commercial airports in the greater Berlin area. After the airport operations ended on the 30 October 2008, the Berliner senate introduced, as a following concept of use, the urban-development project Tempelhofer Freedom.
Berlin, for the next five to ten years, is intending a large number of political city development projects, so that the subsequent use of the Tempelhof Airport receives a long-term perspective. The strategy envisions a stepwise settlement of the Tempelhof field, while in temporary use, an explicit part of the overall strategy. Along with it, the Senate Department for City Development, under the motto “Tempolhofer Freedom”, initiated a planning process, of which the goals and paths of the development will be publicly discussed and determined on a broader basis.
In 2017, the International Horticultural Show is anticipated to take place on the grounds.
