Aircraft hangars

Right behind the former pioneer school of the Wehrmacht in Karlshorst are six aircraft sheds for Friedrichsfelde Airport, built at the end of the First World War. Each shed is topped with three reinforced concrete domes, unique constructions in Germany.

Zeppelin shed

For the rest, only the street name Am alten Flugplatz still reminds us of the airport of yesteryear. If you follow this street further east, you will end up in Biesenhorster Sand, an extensive landscape park Russian soldiers used as a training ground after the Second World War.

The sandy plain hides a technical uniqueness. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Siemens & Schuckert built a 135-meter-long hangar for zeppelins here.

Concrete waste

Concrete relics such as stairs still weave through the landscape park. These are unusable prefab parts for houses that the former Grünau concrete factory dumped here during the GDR era.

Wuhlheide railway yard

The remains of the former Berlin Wuhlheide railway yard, founded by the GDR in 1953, are also still prominently present. The railway yard was closed down in 1994.

The landscape park is riddled with the former track beds. An old locomotive shed was also preserved.