airfield

Berlin is a city with a weird tendency to discard airports. The city goes through them so fast that it’s hard to remember all of them. One of these airports was called Flugplatz Schönwalde, and here I will tell you about its history.

Flugplatz Schönwalde: Exploring Berlin’s Ghost Airport and Its WWII Secrets

Berlin, Urbex
8 min read
28/10/202502/12/2025

We passed by bike a few times on our way to Adlershof, and we always wondered what it would look like from inside the fences. We knew about the abandoned Flugplatz Johannisthal for years, and we even tried to find our way a few years ago. Still, we only made it in early January 2021.

The Abandoned Flugplatz Johannisthal: Exploring Germany’s first commercial airfield

Berlin, Urbex
8 min read
27/04/202529/04/2025

What remains of the Flugplatz Oranienburg can be seen not that far away from the Oranienburg Hauptbahnhof. Built before the Second World War, between 1936 and 1939, this abandoned airfield was used until 1945 by the Luftwaffe and the Heinkel-Werke Oranienburg.

Exploring the Flugplatz Oranienburg with Drones

Berlin, Urbex
8 min read
18/04/202118/02/2024

Flugplatz Brand: Abandoned Barracks and Bunkers Close to Berlin

Urbex
7 min read
30/04/201818/02/2024