Flugplatz Rangsdorf

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Exploring the abandoned Flugplatz Rangsdorf outside of Berlin. Built in 1935 as a Sports Airfield, the Aircraft Manufacturer Bücker Flugzeugbau GmbH moved its production facilities from Johannisthal in Berlin to the newly opened Airfield.
After the outbreak of the second world war, the Airfield was converted into a military Airbase and also briefly served as Berlin's main Airport. Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg departed from hier to fly to the Wolfschanze in his attempt to assassinate Hitler on the 20th of July, 1944 (Operation Valkyrie) and landed back here as well later that same day.
After the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Red Army occupied the Flugplatz Rangsdorf and repurposed it as an Aircraft and Helicopter Repair Workshop as well as stationing a Signal Unit of the 16th Air Army here.
After the Soviet Withdrawal from a unified Germany in 1994, the property was handed back to the German State which then gave it to the State of Brandenburg and the Community of Rangsdorf. While the former Rangsdorf Airbase was left abandoned for many years, as of 2018 serious development plans have surfaced with plans to turn the remains into a housing estate.
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Not an air raid shelter but secure bunker rooms for storing hazadous materials.