Best Outdoors Activities In Tempelhof, Berlin

Once an old rail yard, this park is now a place of nature conservation and culture. Scattered with abandoned railways, it is a wonderful display of the contrast between the technology of the industrial age and the natural surroundings. It is a quieter and more surreal place to escape the city feel than most of the parks in Berlin. Whilst there are many projects and restorations in progress during the year, from June to September, the park is also home to the performances of the Shakespeare Company in Berlin.

This cemetery, built in 1856, is known as the burial place of the Brothers Grimm, the ‘father of modern pathology’ Rudolf Virchow and Claus von Stauffenberg, the army officer who attempted to assassinate Hitler. Though his body was exhumed by the SS, his tombstone remains. The cemetery was once considered a prestigious place to be buried; therefore, there are beautiful, ornate memorials and mausoleums. There is also a chapel that showcases the history of the cemetery and ‘the tombs which reflect the economic and intellectual faces of Berlin in the 19th and early 20th centuries.’