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In the short-term, the airport is building a temporary extension to its terminal building, with long-term plans to combine all flights to Berlin into the single Brandenburg International airport, to be built on the current site of Schonefeld. Ryanair have recently additionally announced cheap flights to Berlin Schonefeld from Nottingham East Midlands airport.
Mini Guide to Berlin Schonefeld
The capital of Germany, and its most populous city (with some 3.5 million inhabitants), Berlin has been undergoing a cultural renaissance ever since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990. Gone are the leather jackets, mullets and the inexplicable fondness for David Hasselhoff; in their place, there follows the New German Cinema, the Berlin Art Forum and the annual Love Parade.
No longer the grey, concrete bunker of old, Berlin has developed into a truly modern capital, full of architectural wonders and striking sights. The author Karl Scheffler once wrote “Berlin is a city condemned forever to becoming and never being”: words that ring true, given the numbers of cranes punctuating the skyline at any given time. And yet what Scheffler diagnosed as a curse is, in many other ways, a blessing: Berlin continually reinvents itself, a destination of shifting centres, a city under perpetual construction. It’s a different place every time you visit.
There are reminders of less happy times in German history: the Kaiser Wilhelm Gedachtniskirche, bombed by the Allies during WWII, or the Topography of Terror, formerly Gestapo HQ. Stretches of the Berlin Wall proceed in fits and starts around the city, most notably in the Potsdamer Platz, where you’ll discover information on its construction and demolition, and over in Unter den Linden, in the old East Berlin. The Berlin Wall Museum is a cluttered, faintly dry exhibition space, with sidebars on the instruments used to dig under or scale over the Wall, and a mocked-up Checkpoint Charlie through which to dash.
Certain Berlin attractions are truly iconic, such as the German seat of parliament, the Reichstag, which was substantially redesigned by British architect Norman Foster in the 1990s. Nearby, the mighty Brandenburg Gate, originally conceived in the 18th century as one of fourteen points of entry to the city, was designed in such a way as to pay homage to the Acropolis. Speaking of which: anyone with an interest in the classics should visit Berlin’s Pergamon-Museum, with its altar from the Temple of Zeus.
Museums, in fact, abound, most with strong links to architectural achievement. The Bauhaus-Archiv preserves key documents and designs from the Bauhaus school of design that flourished in the inter-War years. The Neue Nationalgalerie was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. And the Daniel Libeskind-designed Jewish Museum is an architectural show of strength, a statement of defiance only a few doors down from where the Gestapo carried out their daily work.
Cultures high and low meet somewhere in the middle. At one end, the Berliner Ensemble, the theatre group renowned for its bold, boisterous staging of Bertholt Brecht, and the Berlin Philharmonic, presently conducted by Simon Rattle. At the other, Berlin has always had a strong tradition of fleshpots and cabarets, sex shops and live shows. The city’s nightlife is lively; the gay and lesbian community vast. The famously chaste Chinese pandas at Berlin Zoo would learn a lot if they were let out of their cage.
Berlin Schonefeld Flight News
- Jet2 announce new routes from Manchester and Newcastle - 25/09/2006
- New Berlin airport gets underway - 15/09/2006
- Aer Lingus expand winter schedule - 07/06/2006
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- Berlin Schonefeld Airport - Official Website
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