THE BEST CITY PARK IN THE WORLD

This is 'Tempelhof Field', a former airport which once lay abandoned in the German city of Berlin.
It was once neglected & lonely, but today it's the worlds largest & coolest city park, and one of many reasons why you should visit Berlin!

There is such a great vibe and positive energy about this former Airfield, as families and friends picnic together, Children ride their bikes and play football along the runway, and as for everybody else, well they seemed to be on either skateboards or rollerblades.

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🎬 Filmed & Edited by Tony Bestmann May {2023}
🎵 Music by Ma Rainey - Last Minute Blues {1923}
🎞️ Filmed with a DJI Pocket 2 in Slow Motion (4K)
📀 An 'Off the Rails' Production

🌍 Tempelhofer Feld (English: Tempelhof Field) historically was an area in Berlin used for military practice, and as a parade ground of the Berlin garrison. It belonged to the Tempelhofer uplands on the Teltow plateau, in the south of Berlin. Tempelhofer Feld is closely linked to German military and aviation history, as well as German soccer history. Today it is a developed area, with the exception of the Tempelhofer Feld park on the site of the former Tempelhof Airport.

Two German political parties, the CDU and FDP, initiated a referendum against the shutdown of flight operations. The referendum ultimately failed after not getting enough support from local citizens.

Later, several thousand activists came together in an alliance called Squat Tempelhof in order to occupy the site and protest against the plans for re-use. This planned mass occupation of the closed field was to make the point that the area (unused and fenced off at the time), should be accessible to citizens. The Berlin Senate had promised that after the closure of the airport, the space would be opened to the general population but by June 2009 this had not yet happened. Many residents, as well as tenant alliances and the Green party came together to organize. However, the occupation was prevented by the police. Around 1,500 officers were on duty and 102 demonstrators were arrested.

The field re-opened on May 8, 2010 as Tempelhofer Park, a recreational area in Berlin districts Neukölln and Tempelhof. During the first open weekend, the park was visited by around 235,000 visitors.

Now officially called Tempelhofer Feld, it covers 355 hectares of the site of the former Tempelhof Airport, including its buildings and surrounding land, making it the largest inner city open space in the world, and Berlin's largest city park.

The park is accessible from sunrise to sunset and can be accessed via ten entrances. Six of them are located at the eastern end of the former runways along Oderstraße, two at Tempelhof station and the Paradestraße U-Bahn at Tempelhofer Damm, and two at Columbiadamm, on the level of the 1866 Islamic cemetery with the Şehitlik Mosque, and Golßener Straße.

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