Budget · 3-hour walk · Berlin
Tempelhof and Neukölln in three hours
The airport of the Berlin Airlift, its runways now a park, and the streets of the old village of Rixdorf.
Tempelhof airport closed in 2008, and two years later Berliners were let onto its runways; in a referendum in 2014 they voted to keep the whole field open. This route crosses it from the terminal that handled the Berlin Airlift of 1948 and 1949 to Neukölln, where the streets along the field's edge and the old Bohemian village of Rixdorf have become one of the liveliest parts of the city.
The route, stop by stop
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Tempelhof Airport
The vast curved terminal of the 1930s, one of the largest buildings in Europe, through which the Airlift kept West Berlin supplied in 1948 and 1949. Guided tours go inside.
20 min here Walk here → -
Tempelhofer Feld
The runways now belong to kite-surfers, skaters and cyclists, with community gardens and barbecue areas. It is a long way across; allow for it.
40 min here Walk here → -
Schillerkiez
The streets on the field's eastern edge, around the church on Herrfurthplatz, now full of cafés and bars.
20 min here Walk here → -
Rixdorf
The centre of old Rixdorf, settled by Bohemian Protestant refugees in the 1730s, with a blacksmith's forge and cottages still standing around the square.
25 min here Walk here →
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