Plans presented: Landscape park at former Tegel Airport

Over the next few years, a unique leisure and recreational area for Berliners and a conservation reserve for flora and fauna is to be created on an area of 190 hectares, as the state-owned company Grün Berlin announced on Wednesday. The first designs for the landscape park were presented on Wednesday on the airport grounds by Britta Behrendt (CDU), State Secretary for Climate Protection and the Environment, and Grün Berlin Managing Director Christoph Schmidt.

According to the information provided, the heart of the park will be the approximately three-kilometre-long and 60-metre-wide runway of the decommissioned city airport. The runway is to be preserved and used for jogging, cycling and skating. As with Tempelhofer Feld, entry to the landscape park is to be free of charge. The park, which is part of the Tegeler Stadtheide, is also to remain closed at night.

The opening is planned for spring 2029. Funding for the development of the Tegeler Stadtheide Landscape Park is being provided by the state. A total of 48.5 million euros is available. From April, free tours will be offered where interested parties can find out more about the plans. Tegel Airport was one of several airports for the metropolis of Berlin. The airport in the north of the city was closed at the end of 2020. In the meantime, BER has become the central airport for the capital region. Officially known as Berlin Brandenburg Airport "Willy Brandt", it is located in Schönefeld in Brandenburg, south of the city limits of Berlin.