The airport was closed in 2008. The site is located in today's Berlin districts of Tempelhof-Schöneberg and Neukölln. The monumental building complex, which is about 1.2 km long, is a listed building, is used for events and can be visited as part of guided tours. The former airfield with its runways and taxiways has been opened to the general public for leisure activities in 2010 as an inner-city park under the names "Tempelhofer Freiheit" and later "Tempelhofer Feld". There are several access points from Tempelhofer Damm, Columbiadamm and Oderstraße in Neukölln.

Overview

Aerial views 2017

Aerial view 2017 - The semicircular square in the upper left is the Platz der Luftbrücke with the Berlin Airlift Monument.

Source: Geoportal Berlin

Terminal building designed by architect Ernst Sagebiel from above

Former terminal building from above, designed by architect Ernst Sagebiel

Old airfield

Runways 09R, 09L

Runways 27R, 27L on the eastern side in Neukölln - Along the area runs the Oderstraße.

Southwestern take-off head - The Ringbahn (suburban railroad) and Berlin's A100 city autobahn run around the site.

Southeastern take-off head

Images

Pictures of Berlin Tempelhof Airport from 2010

The airport approx. 2 years after closing. It is not yet allowed to walk on the site.

Former runway 27R - Oderstraße in Berlin-Neukölln, looking west.

The signs "Security Area" have been removed

Picture: Fence across the former runway 09R/27L

There is a fence across the former runway 09R/27L

Sign: "Wait here for air traffic. Pass approach sector without stopping."

Former localizer for the instrument landing system of runway 09R

Localizer from behind

Buildings at the Oderstraße street

Berlin Tempelhof Airport pictures from 2011

The former airfield site is now open to visitors.

The gate to the Tempelhofer Feld is open

Tempelhofer Park Visitor Information

Map

Localizer for instrument landing system runway 09R

The antenna is fenced in and explained

Localizer

Runway 27L

The runway is marked as closed by white crosses

Closed runway

View of the localizer

Intersection of taxiway East I

Taxiway East I, looking north

The taxiway to the south was already closed in earlier times.

Closed path

Runway distance reamining signs indicate the remaining runway length in 1,000 feet intervalls. - Here, 3,000 feet are remaining

3,000 feet in both directions

5,000 feet in one direction, 1,000 feet in the other.

2,000 feet in one direction, 4,000 feet in the other.

The inside

Duct for runway lighting

Former runway edge light

The touchdown zone lighting has been removed

Airport terminal building Berlin Tempelhof, Germany

The approx. 1.2 km long airport building.

Control tower

Radar tower with the radar RRP 117

Aircraft

Former VORTAC radio beacon - Left is the VOR, right the TACAN.

VOR radio beacon

Tempelhof VOR

TACAN

No Vehicles beyond this point without contact with the tower (70.15 MHz)

Taxiway East I parallel to Oderstraße in Berlin-Neukölln

Transformer building

Staircase

Gate to Tempelhofer Feld at Oderstraße

Closed taxiway

Building

Meteorological station

Runway 27R - Viewing west.

Former Berlin Tempelhof Central Airport: Pictures from 2014

The pictures were taken on the western side of the airport.

Main airport building

CAT I Holding

Runway 09R

Relics of the runway lights

Arrows to the touch-down point

Old take-off platforms in the south

Takeoff platform, S-Bahn suburban railway Berlin

Take-off platforms - In the background, there is a S-Bahn train (suburban railway) on the southern Ringbahn line.

Surface of the take-off platform

Gate of the railway siding Berlin Tempelhof

Gate of the railway siding - The railroad spur begins at Berlin Hermannstrasse station, first runs on the south side of the Ringbahn, then crosses it and continues on its north side to enter the airport site through this gate on the southwest side.

U.V. Eisenbahntor

Railway track - This track runs along the southwestern edge of the site.

View to the east, runway 09R starts on the left. - The railroad is already interrupted here.

On the left, the track swings further north

U.V. Lok 27

The construction site in the background is the former localizer for runway 27L - The localizer was slightly displaced to the north.

The railway siding goes further north to the airport building

Sources

http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/geoinformati... - Geoportal Berlin
https://www.archives.gov/ - National Archives
https://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/ - Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg
http://ba.e-pics.ethz.ch - ETH Bildarchiv

General

Google Maps
Wikipedia (german)
Planeboys - A lot of nice pictures

Until 1945

TU Berlin Architekturmuseum - Maps and sketches to the airport from Ernst Sagebiel

1945-1994

Airliners.net: Bilder von 1960 bis 1969 - A lot of nice historic pictures
Airliners.net: Bilder von 1970 bis 1979
Airliners.net: Bilder von 1980 bis 1989
Airliners.net: Bilder von 1990 bis 1994

1994-2008

Homepage of the Berlin Airports to which also Tempelhof belonged to.
Aerial picture 02/2001
Aerial picture from the west 05/2003
Airliners.net: Pictures from 1994 until 1999
Airliners.net: Pictures from 2000 until 2009
Runway 09L
Landung in Berlin Tempelhof am 25.7.08 - Video approach 09L
Dornier 228 Berlin Tempelhof RWY 09L - Video approach 09L
Runway 09R
Final Rwy 09R with Dash 8-314 OE-LSB - 30may2004
Runway 27L
Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander - Cockpit view on the final approach to 27L
Short Final Rwy 27L - 18sep2004
Approach to land - Video of the approach of a Boeing 737 to 27L
Runway 27R
Approach Airport Berlin Tempelhof EDDI - Video from the approach to 27R
Cockpitview - Landung DA40 in Tempelhof - Video from the approach to 27R
Official closing october 2008
Goodbye Tempelhof | The last day - Great video from the last official day
Letzter Funkspruch am 30.10.2008
The last planes leaving Tempelhof November 24th, 2008
Die (aller-) letzten Starts in Tempelhof (1)
Die (aller-) letzten Starts in Tempelhof (2)
Die (aller-) letzten Starts in Tempelhof (3)
Die (aller-) letzten Starts in Tempelhof (4)
Letzter Abflug Tempelhof 24.11.2008 - TV report from mdr

Bibliography

Ries, Karl; Dierich, Wolfgang: "Fliegerhorste und Einsatzhäfen der Luftwaffe" Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart, 1993 - Allied map
: "Gelandet in Berlin - Zur Geschichte der Berliner Flughäfen" Berliner Flughafengesellschaft mbH, ca. 1974
Freundt, Lutz: "Mauerflieger - Berlin-Luftkorridore - Flughafen Tempelhof" AerLit - Verlag und Medienvertrieb, Diepholz, 2001 - History and pictures 1945-1990
Jeschonek, Friedrich; RIedel, Dieter; Durie, William: "Alliierte in Berlin 1945-1990" Berlin Verlag Arno Spitz GmbH, Berlin (2002)
Przychowski, Hans von: "Luftverkehr in Berlin - Die Flughäfen im Wandel der Zeit 1945 - 1996 (eine Zeittafel)" Brandenburgisches Verlagshaus, 1996

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232°/10km Berlin: Berlin Command Airstrip
074°/12km Berlin: Helipad 1028 (HSLP / HLP 1028)
321°/12km Berlin: Tegel Airport
143°/13km Berlin: Schönefeld Airport (Zentralflughafen Berlin-Schönefeld, SXF)
270°/18km Berlin: RAF Gatow Airfield (Kladow)
062°/19km Hönow: Agricultural Airfield
051°/20km Blumberg: Agricultural Airfield
115°/20km Berlin: Müggelheim Agricultural Airfield
289°/20km Berlin: Staaken Airfield (Dallgow, Dalgow, Аэродром Берлин Штакен)
244°/21km Berlin: Steinstücken Helipad

Berlin: Documentation - Tempelhof Airport today

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