Frankfurt also has its Tempelhofer Feld: the old airfield in the north of the city is now a green refuge for plants, animals - and people.
It sounds like a fairy tale, but it is very real: where US military aircraft took off until 1992, a place has been created where people can relax and plants and animals can develop undisturbed. Since the early 2000s, Maurice Rose Airfield, better known as Alter Flugplatz Bonames, has been part of Frankfurt's GreenBelt. The fences that once surrounded the approximately 4.5-hectare site in the north of the city were dismantled, tarmac surfaces were broken up and ponds and biotopes were created. In the middle of the former restricted area there is now a picnic meadow with young trees - and right next to it a small snack bar where you can enjoy snacks and drinks at long tables. The old airport is a perfect spot for children to run around and let off steam, for example on the former runway, which has not been completely dismantled but has been narrowed and left to nature. There is even a new bridge over the Nidda, which has ensured that pedestrians and cyclists can integrate the old airfield into their routes as a matter of course. Incidentally, the bridge is named after the Frankfurt writer and illustrator Robert Gernhardt; he might have liked what sits on the bridge railing: a sculpture of the so-called "GrünGürteltiers".
It sounds like a fairy tale, but it is very real: where US military aircraft took off until 1992, a place has been created where people can relax and plants and animals can develop undisturbed. Since the early 2000s, Maurice Rose Airfield, better known as Alter Flugplatz Bonames, has been part of Frankfurt's GreenBelt. The fences that once surrounded the approximately 4.5-hectare site in the north of the city were dismantled, tarmac surfaces were broken up and ponds and biotopes were created. In the middle of the former restricted area there is now a picnic meadow with young trees - and right next to it a small snack bar where you can enjoy snacks and drinks at long tables. The old airport is a perfect spot for children to run around and let off steam, for example on the former runway, which has not been completely dismantled but has been narrowed and left to nature. There is even a new bridge over the Nidda, which has ensured that pedestrians and cyclists can integrate the old airfield into their routes as a matter of course. Incidentally, the bridge is named after the Frankfurt writer and illustrator Robert Gernhardt; he might have liked what sits on the bridge railing: a sculpture of the so-called "GrünGürteltiers".
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