Comments on: Tempelhof: The Yin and Yang of an Abandoned Airfield https://uncorneredmarket.com/tempelhof-the-yin-and-yang-of-an-abandoned-airfield/ Travel That Cares for Our Planet and Its People Sun, 21 Apr 2024 16:21:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: Daniel Noll https://uncorneredmarket.com/tempelhof-the-yin-and-yang-of-an-abandoned-airfield/#comment-1043384 Thu, 14 Nov 2013 06:26:49 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/?p=13834#comment-1043384 @Charles: Even more ideas, check out our Berlin Beginner Travel Guide.

]]> By: Charles Rahm https://uncorneredmarket.com/tempelhof-the-yin-and-yang-of-an-abandoned-airfield/#comment-1018414 Thu, 07 Nov 2013 09:11:10 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/?p=13834#comment-1018414 That is a good idea for my next Berlin visit! Thank you!

]]> By: Amit https://uncorneredmarket.com/tempelhof-the-yin-and-yang-of-an-abandoned-airfield/#comment-925369 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 06:30:29 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/?p=13834#comment-925369 So tempting post.. loved it. specially the women with beer. i wish i could be there..

]]> By: Daniel Noll https://uncorneredmarket.com/tempelhof-the-yin-and-yang-of-an-abandoned-airfield/#comment-881748 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:09:00 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/?p=13834#comment-881748 @Mikeachim: Wide space for deep thoughts. True that. I know you’ve felt this at Tempelhof, too — moor, expanse, urban veldt, whatever it is.

]]> By: Mikeachim https://uncorneredmarket.com/tempelhof-the-yin-and-yang-of-an-abandoned-airfield/#comment-881198 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:11:28 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/?p=13834#comment-881198 There’s something about that park (or urban moor, or whatever it is) that sent me deep within myself when you introduced me to it a while back – but also sent my thoughts far away, zooming the lens out and making me think satellite’s-eye-view thoughts. Seems you’re having the same experience, but with a fourth dimension built of your own experiences in the city – and Tempelhof is evolving every year (dramatically so by the end of the decade, if all goes according to development plans). It’s a place to feel change, however glacial its speed.

And re. thinking big thoughts: it’s almost like wide, deep thoughts need a surrounding space to expand into. I felt something similar, and I also felt it in Orkney, another moor-that-isn’t-a-moor…

Lovely read. Thank you.

]]> By: Daniel Noll https://uncorneredmarket.com/tempelhof-the-yin-and-yang-of-an-abandoned-airfield/#comment-874542 Wed, 11 Sep 2013 11:13:29 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/?p=13834#comment-874542 @Ces: Before you visit Belrin, be sure to check out our Berlin Beginner’s Guide. And of course, if you have any questions, let us know!

@John: Absolutely. During the “good” seasons, absolutely. But even during the winter, Tempelhof, even despite those cold winds, is a great place to clear one’s head. We joke that Tempelhof is what helps us survive the Berlin winter.

]]> By: John @ Rushflights.com https://uncorneredmarket.com/tempelhof-the-yin-and-yang-of-an-abandoned-airfield/#comment-871785 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 12:02:21 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/?p=13834#comment-871785 Tempelhof is amazing place directly in the middle of the town, I used to live nearby and it’s just perfect for walks, picnics or having a game of football with friends…

]]> By: Ces @ Thrifty Vagabond https://uncorneredmarket.com/tempelhof-the-yin-and-yang-of-an-abandoned-airfield/#comment-870902 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 21:52:51 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/?p=13834#comment-870902 Berlin has always been an intriguing topic to me. I would love to explore its beauty and mystery someday.

]]> By: Daniel Noll https://uncorneredmarket.com/tempelhof-the-yin-and-yang-of-an-abandoned-airfield/#comment-862862 Mon, 02 Sep 2013 10:18:35 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/?p=13834#comment-862862 @Rob: Fascinating story. Thanks for sharing. Wish I had the awareness and foresight back then to do the same.

I don’t know if it’s as alive and well as it once was, but the squatter culture still lives in Berlin. It was apparently especially big in neighborhoods like Kreuzberg (we posted a photo to FB recently from the Regenbogen (Rainbow) Factory that was squatted in protest of its demolition in the 1980s). Now, the squatters have legal rights and it has turned into communal living quarters. Anyhow, the jokes still abound about squatting in Berlin. Berlin’s always changing, so what’s here today may be completely altered, if not gone altogether, by tomorrow.

]]> By: Rob https://uncorneredmarket.com/tempelhof-the-yin-and-yang-of-an-abandoned-airfield/#comment-861754 Sun, 01 Sep 2013 07:35:05 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/?p=13834#comment-861754 It was indeed kind of extreme. Early spring 1990 I was working in West Germany, about 3 hours from Berlin. Another Canadian with whom I was working and I decided to do a long weekend in Berlin. We cleaned our rental car front to back to make sure there was no hint of where we were working or for what company, and had a slow drive through East Germany and into Berlin. There were still lots of guard towers and both border crossings, into East Germany and into Berlin had 3-4 gates and checkpoints. At this point the writing was on the wall and only one checkpoint at either crossing was manned. But still to go into East Berlin we had to get a 12-hour visa and go through Checkpoint Charlie, and we had a minor interrogation by the East Germans on the way out.

A few months later I was, as I mentioned, chipping away at the wall, and two years later visiting a friend from Mannheim who was there working. Things were already changing rapidly, but we ate and drank at “squatter” restaurants and bars – bombed out buildings that still somehow had power and water. It was very strange. Clearly I need to add Berlin to my list of places that need another look. 🙂

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