Berlin Trip : Berlin Tempelhof Airport Tour (Part 5)

Templehof Airport was used by the US military between 1945 and 1994 and it’s fair to say that they’ve left quite a legacy in the little things that they added, not least a baseball court.

I wonder what the Nazi building designers would have thought about this little arrangement.

There are plenty of empty spaces, they use areas such as this part of the tour now.

Now mostly removed, but this is where the bowling lanes were located. There were numerous other games played in these rooms, along with a gym, showers, squash courts and all manner of other bits and pieces.

A building plan, but I’m not sure from which year.

We were shown some of the former offices used by the army. This one had a copper roof, although it’s not visible in my photo as the ceiling tiles are in the way. It’s a sprawling complex, it was hard during the tour to really understand how it all fit together as the building was just so large. The US military left the airport in August 1994 after having been in the city for 49 years and as with much of the rest of the building, it’s pretty much the same 30 years on.