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The following are the developments now emerging on the five square kilometer site of Berlin TXL.

Schumacher Quartier

The 46-hectare Schumacher Quartier is being built to the east of the airport site and a little beyond. This new residential district will offer over 5,000 apartments for more than 10,000 people – along with the associated facilities such as schools, daycare centers, sports facilities, shopping facilities and plenty of green space. The new district will be one of the world’s largest timber construction districts.

As a sustainable and socially mixed area, Schumacher Quartier will make an important contribution to the German capital’s housing and urban development strategy. In a charter, all partners involved have agreed on seven guidelines for the development of Schumacher Quartier:

  • Urban living spaces
  • Housing for all
  • Urban green space and public areas
  • Open educational landscape
  • Climate-friendly and water-sensitive urban development
  • Environmentally friendly transportation guaranteed
  • Communication, participation and transparency

 

Urban Tech Republic

The airport buildings and the surrounding areas will be transformed into the Urban Tech Republic, a research and industrial park where technologies for the city of tomorrow will be researched, developed, produced, tested, and exported. Here, science and research meet industry and commerce, and startups meet investors. And everyone works together to find solutions for the sustainable and resilient cities of tomorrow.

Six core themes of urban technologies have been defined for the curated site:

  • Climate-neutral energy systems and the efficient use of energy
  • Environmentally friendly mobility
  • Clean water
  • Recycling
  • The use of new materials for applications such as sustainable construction
  • The networked control of systems

 

The existing buildings have approximately 200,000 m² of gross floor area. The campus will cover 39 hectares, the commercial zone 70 hectares, and the industrial park 82 hectares. The total area of the Urban Tech Republic spans 202 hectares.

Users of the Urban Tech Republic will include startups, students, scientists, and established companies. Two key anchor tenants have already been confirmed: the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (BHT) and the Berlin Fire and Rescue Service Academy (BFRA).

Over 40 companies are already on site, utilizing leased space in the former airport buildings and experimental areas on the former airfield. Up to 1,000 companies are expected to set up operations here in the future, creating up to 20,000 jobs.


A large nature and landscape

Where airplanes once took off, Grün Berlin will develop and operate a unique green recreational and leisure area for Berlin in the coming years. The Senate Department for the Environment, Transport, and Climate Protection has entrusted Grün Berlin with the task of implementing the necessary development and conservation measures for the Tegeler Stadtheide landscape. The 190-hectare site encompasses the protected transitional zone between the new urban districts to the south and east of the former airport grounds and the existing landscape conservation areas of Flughafensee and Jungfernheide to the north and west. The goal is to create an open space that brings nature, life, and work together in a high-quality and sustainable way.

With the takeover of the site in August 2021, preparatory construction measures began, in particular the clearance of explosive ordnance. Following the removal of existing contaminated sites, the first civil engineering measures for technical development began in 2022/2023. as well the restoration and reconstruction work on the existing buildings in the Urban Tech Republic. The construction of the first residential buildings and the educational campus in the Schumacher Quartier is starting in 2026.

We are expecting an implementation period of around 20 to 30 years for the whole site of Berlin TXL.

The first residential buildings in Schumacher Quartier are expected to be completed from 2028; the last ones in the 2030s. Construction in the Urban Tech Republic will probably last another ten years, but it may also take less or even more time, depending on the economic situation. 

Half of the area in Schumacher Quartier goes to state-owned housing associations. The other half will be offered, also as part of the awarding of leasehold estate contracts, to housing cooperatives, construction groups, and providers tendering for special types of housing (e.g. student residences). 

The landscape area, the landscape park and the district park in Schumacher Quartier are available to the general public. No leasehold estate can be acquired here.

The first apartments are expected to be ready for occupation from 2028 and will be rented out by the state-owned housing associations degewo and GESOBAU. The proportion of subsidized rents will be approximately 35-40 per cent in the district. Rent levels are set by the state-owned housing associations. These associations are bound by the guidelines of the State of Berlin, which are designed to ensure affordable housing. At a later date, housing cooperatives will also begin renting out apartments in the Schumacher Quartier. All the latest information will be available here in due course.

  • The Schumacher Quarter is well connected to downtown Berlin via the two U6 subway stations, “Scharnweberstraße” and “Kurt-Schumacher-Platz.” The neighborhood is also accessible via several bus stops served by lines X21, M21, 125, 128, 221, and N6.
  • Bus 109 runs to the Urban Tech Republic terminus, which is also the meeting point for the Berlin TXL site tours. Before that, it also stops at the General-Ganeval-Brücke for the exit to the Infocenter Berlin TXL. You can find the bus route to the Urban Tech Republic here.
  • With the further development of the Urban Tech Republic and the Schumacher Quartier, new public transport connections are to be expected. In future, there will also be a streetcar connection.
  • Über die aktuellen Fahrpläne informieren Sie sich bitte unter: bvg.de

The former Tegel Airport is a major construction site, which also has an impact on the surrounding area and neighborhood. We would like to keep these as small as possible and at the same time we ask for your understanding for necessary measures.

The construction site access road is located at the former airport access road on Saatwinkler Damm (southern access road). Starting mid 2026 there there is a second access road for construction traffic on Kurt-Schumacher-Damm.

The site will be searched by us for explosive ordinance from the Second World War If what is called a ‘dud’ is discovered, there may be temporary street closures and, if need be, even evacuations in the surrounding area.

Meteorstrasse will be converted into an urban road with new sidewalks and bike paths, grass verges planted with trees, as well as two lanes in both directions. Here also restrictions are to be expected during the construction work.

Of course, we will inform you in good time about upcoming measures.

As part of the Integrated Urban Development Plan (German acronym ISEK), various measures are being implemented for development of the area close to Tegel Airport. You will find more detailed information about this on the website of the Senate Administration for Urban Development, Construction and Housing.

Parts of the “TXL North” development site northwest from the Schumacher Quartier will continue to be used by the the German Armed Forces. Planning for this quarter is still in its infancy. We are currently conducting initial studies on how the “TXL Nord” site can be further developed in the future.

Berlin TXL is being financed from several different public and private sources: From Berlin’s budgetary resources, subsidies from the EU and the Federal Government, and the marketing and leasing of premises. In all we are counting on total investments of around eight billion euros, the major portion of which will be private investments.

Tegel Projekt GmbH is a public corporation and awards the contracts as part of public tender procedures that, depending on their size, are published on the stipulated platforms, for example on the State of Berlin’s tendering platform. Join in our public tenders – we look forward to working with you!

Quite the opposite: It’s rather that the traffic will be lighter and the environment will be freed up As a comparison: Before the slump in air traffic as a consequence of the Corona crisis, every day there were more than 70,000 people en route to the airport – via the bottleneck that was the airport feeder road. In the future as many as 20,000 people will work in the area and around 10,000 people will live there. In addition, an innovative mobility concept has been developed for Berlin TXL.

After the closure of the Tegel Airport almost 30,000 residential units will be able to be built on the actual grounds and in their extended radius, which will bring considerable relief to the situation in the Berlin housing market. Moreover, in Spandau and Reinickendorf consideration is being given to environmentally protected areas in order to keep the appreciation pressure low after closure of the airport. In addition, the tools of the Federal Government (rent curbs) will take effect here. Furthermore, for the environs of the airport site a plan known as the Integrated Urban Development Concept (German Acronym ISEK) “Berlin TXL Surrounding Area” has been developed. The objective is to network the Urban Tech Republic and Schumacher Quartier as closely as possible with the existing city districts all around.

Not in the short term. The site was closed when air traffic ceased. However, our Infocenter Berlin TXL in Building V is available for you to obtain information, visit exhibitions or take part in events, and you can also book the premises for your event.

To ensure that many people can enjoy this special place, guided tours of the grounds take place regularly. The two-hour outdoor walks can be booked at https://museumsdienst.berlin. Individual existing areas are also used for events.

Outside the tours the area is a huge construction site with the appropriate security to prevent unauthorized access. As soon as each construction phase is finished, that section will then also be accessible to the public.

Grün Berlin GmbH is responsible for the extensive landscaped area to the north and west of the Urban Tech Republic. The extensive landscape space north and west of the Urban Tech Republic , will be opened to the general public in the next few years in succession. Currently, the Campus Stadt Natur is offering several guided tours and events on-site at the Tegeler Stadtheide.

Quite a lot. In addition to the huge landscape zone, access to which will be free, numerous attractive sports and exercise facilities are planned: playgrounds, multi-purpose sports facilities, and fitness and health stations along jogging paths. On the surface of the landing strip and the taxiway there will be a roller derby track, a street skateboarding park, a streetball facility, a bicycle parcours, and a calisthenics parcours, among many other offerings. On the green spaces of the park there are plans for a rock-climbing gym, a soccer field, and an area for frisbee golf, as well as an outdoor fitness area.

All sports and play areas in the district and landscape park will be designed taking into account gender guidelines and with as few barriers as possible in order to promote communal play. With regards to sports and playing facilities, shade roofs and seating facilities, picnic tables and informal bleachers have been arranged creating a wide variety of places to meet.

The first apartments in the Schumacher Quartier are expected to be ready for occupation from 2028. The allocation of the approximately 2,500 housing units realized by state-owned housing companies is carried out by those housing companies. Tegel Projekt GmbH itself won’t develop nor rent out apartments.

No apartments are for sale at Schumacher Quartier. Following the course of conceptual procedures, plots of land are granted to building groups and cooperatives on a leasehold basis. The concept procedures will start as soon as the relevant development plans are available. Current information will be published on our websites.