Berlin Tegel Airport
Former airport in north-western Berlin, closed in 2020. See Berlin.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inside Berlin’s Abandoned Tegel Airport | The B1M | subject | Built in 90 days for the Airlift, later a modernist hexagon, now a ghost airport being cleared for redevelopment. |
Inside Berlin’s Abandoned Tegel Airport — The B1M (2026)
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The solution was a former artillery firing range in the French controlled northwestern sector of the city. It was flat, open, and perfect
- Role: subject
- In the video: During the 1948 Berlin Airlift, when Tempelhof and Gatow couldn’t cope, about 19,000 largely volunteer Berliners built Tegel on a former artillery range in 90 days. A hexagonal terminal by von Gerkan and Marg opened in 1974; the airport closed in November 2020 and its ground is being cleared of old munitions for the Berlin TXL redevelopment.
- Why it matters: The airport is the whole story: Cold War lifeline, modernist icon and abandoned site in one place.