Tour of Tempelhof Airport (photos)

[TobyV]

Just got back from a trip to Berlin. This time I managed to get inside Tempelhof Airport on a tour which is well worth the €12 price.

Photos to be found via this link:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 46a218cc71
Do not be scared by the facebook address - no account or login is required!
EDIT This doesn't seem to work anymore, so I posted the pictures below the old fashioned way

This is a just a sample of the better pictures. The tour continued underground in some burned out film processing rooms adjoining the site's power plant but photography was not really possible. As it is, most of these shots were taken handheld between ISO 3200 and 6400.

[Paul K]

Toby, I'm afraid a log-in to Facebook is required, at least for me anyway.

[TobyV]

Just pasted the link into a browser where I am not signed in and I get that too. It's not supposed to do that. Not sure if it's a temporary glitch or a new "security feature". Will try another similar link out and if that fails, find a Plan B. In the meantime, the true spirit of my company's outsourced IT support, I should find a way to make this thread play Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

[TobyV]

Aircraft parked under the cantilevered roof so passengers disembarked out of the rain or snow


Albert Speer decided this room above the entrance was not grand enough so it was modified, but in any case, it was not completed


Tempelhof during a USAF open day, 1989


Entrance area


Check in hall / Abfertigungshalle


Check in hall / Abfertigungshalle


Check in hall / Abfertigungshalle

Scratch facebook, here's the old fashioned way (didn't take too long to copy and paste everything!). Interior shots handheld between ISO3200 and ISO6400 hence the noise.


Painting depicting the Berlin airlift (mostly American contribution). Top right; the children have been depicted with socks and shoes but in reality they wouldn't have had them as they cheered the planes from the rubble of Berlin


This section of the terminal was rebuilt after being bombed.


US Forces sports hall, located above the check in hall


American mural


The building presents an imposing appearance on a cold snowy winter evening

[Paul K]

I should find a way to make this thread play Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

Nah Toby, Vivaldi's 4 Seasons has been flogged to death. These days Its more famous for being the music you listen to while you are in a queue at a call centre.

Make it Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 - Denn Alles Fleisch, Es Ist Wie Gras . A German Requiem..It goes perfectly with Templehof.

Great pictures !

[TobyV]

Four Seasons was exactly for that, for the interlude!

Well given the airport, and the certain individual was the bad moustache who had it built, I suppose it'd have to be Wagner?

[Paul K]

Nope, go for the Brahms...you'll like it !