In South Korea I visited Dorasan station that is on the train line between South and North Korea. That train line has only been used a few times, for obvious reasons. At the moment I visited Dorasan. it was not really used. So there was this big modern station that was almost completely empty.
The Mother of All ‘Abandoned’ Airports (2015)
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#32Arriving to Templehof felt like a dystopian experience. A vacant Facistic styled airport and a public park in the size of a neighbourhood. As someone coming from a dense area urban area it was like nothing else. If you consider visiting keep in mind it’s a long ride
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#33Back in 2010 I was learning German and visited Berlin for the first time with another friend whose German was as bad as mine. We downloaded this random app (in German) telling us about Berlin tourist attractions, and upon reading it we "understood" that Tempelhof was a tourist attraction and "frozen in time" and we should visit it. We walked into the building looking for tickets for some sort of exposition, but there…
You accidentally did some urban exploration, and you didn’t even get in that much trouble for it!
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#34Every once in a while, you can visit Tempelhof. I have visited it some time ago and really enjoyed the main hall. It's in pristine condition, with the old signs and typography. Tempelhofer Feld is also part of the Berlin experience, half way between a park and an open air festival, used simultaneously by picnickers, cyclists, skaters, gardeners, DJs, kite surfers, drone pilots and just about everyone else. There have…
The wall clocks on those pictures look great IMO.
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#35Looking at it in google maps with the aerial view turned on, it looks like there is (or was, at time of photo) a bunch of modular housing units for temporary accommodations, the whole terminal and apron is still there, and there's a dog park. The dog park has lots of cute user submitted photos of dogs.
There's also a 'private university' named for Sigmund Freud. I was hoping that some of Berlin's famous graffiti artists might have drawn a visible from space phallus on the roof, but no such luck.
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#36Also what happened to the other aiports in Berlin like Tegel and Sconefeld since Brandenberg replaced them. The major delay in completing Brandenberg is also surprising to an outsider.
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#37I know the original plan was that they were going to shut down Tegel, Tempelhof, and Schönefeld and replace them all with BER.
My understanding is that now BER has finally been finished, Schönefeld has been turned into a terminal + runway of BER, and Tegel has recently been shut down. If so, what's going to happen to the Tegel buildings and airfield space now?
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#38I know the original plan was that they were going to shut down Tegel, Tempelhof, and Schönefeld and replace them all with BER. My understanding is that now BER has finally been finished, Schönefeld has been turned into a terminal + runway of BER, and Tegel has recently been shut down. If so, what's going to happen to the Tegel buildings and airfield space now?
The main Tegel terminal buildings will be converted to house research institutes; this will be the core of a project with the fancy name "Urban Tech Republic".
The eastern part of the airfield will be used to build new residential housing ("Schumacher Quartier").
These are quite ambitious plans, construction is expected to complete not before 2027.
See here for more details:
https://www.tegelprojekt.de/en.html https://www.schumacher-quartier.de/
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#39TL;DR the buildings are mostly used, mostly by government agencies and the green space is mostly a public access park.
Exactly. It has never been abandoned at all, simply and wisely re-purposed.
Re: The Mother of All ‘Abandoned’ Airports (2015)
#40I know the original plan was that they were going to shut down Tegel, Tempelhof, and Schönefeld and replace them all with BER. My understanding is that now BER has finally been finished, Schönefeld has been turned into a terminal + runway of BER, and Tegel has recently been shut down. If so, what's going to happen to the Tegel buildings and airfield space now?
The main Tegel terminal buildings will be converted to house research institutes; this will be the core of a project with the fancy name "Urban Tech Republic". The eastern part of the airfield will be used to build new residential housing ("Schumacher Quartier"). These are quite ambitious plans, construction is expected to complete not before 2027. See here for more details: https://www.tegelprojekt.de/en.html https:…
Wow, that looks really cool! Thanks for the explanation and links.