1. Die Steinmühle
Die Steinmühle wurde 1303 als Getreidemühle von den Zisterziensermönchen aus dem Kloster Zinn erbaut und von diesen betrieben. Bis 1766 wurde die Mühle als Getreidemühle genutzt, bis der damalige Mühlenmeister eine Genehmigung zur Anlegung einer Schneidemühle (Sägewerk) erhielt.
1845 wurde sie wieder abgerissen und danach als Ölmühle wiederaufgebaut. Ende 19. Jahrhunderts wurde auf Dampfkraft erweitert und die Mühle zur Strohpapierstoff-Fabrik umgebaut. Sie wurde auch weiter als Dampfmühle genutzt. 1918 firmiert die Mühle als „G. Thiele Steinmühle“. Inhaber war Emil Gericke, der Schwiegersohn von G.Thiele. 1934 wurde die Dampfmaschine durch einen Motor ersetzt und die Mühle vergrößert.
The flying hangars of Karlshorst
Construction began on the site in 1909 first rotatable airship hangar in the world. It was 135 m long, 25 m high and 25 m wide. Depending on the wind, the hall could be positioned so that incoming and outgoing airships were not damaged by gusts of wind. Because that was exactly the problem with the airships once constructed by Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin. Its body was made of aluminum, which bent with every slight collision. In the case of the airships built by the Siemens-Schuckert-Werke, however, a rubber construction was used. In 1911 the first copy went on a trip over the roofs of Karlshorst. But because the operation of the airships was too complicated for members of the military in the long term, the project was discontinued in 1912. From autumn 1917, airplanes were assembled there in the newly built, modern 6 chip concrete halls and soldiers were trained in aerial photography. The project was discontinued at the end of the First World War. The security police continued to operate. In addition, a squadron was set up for the East Border Guard in Karlshorst. The former military pilots now carried out their work in the service of the police with nine aircraft - until flight operations were completely shut down on the basis of the Versailles Treaty. After only four years of flight operations, the halls were then used by commercial tenants. After the Second World War, a large part of Karlshorst became a restricted military area of the Soviet Army and only partially accessible to GDR citizens, including the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) and later the German administration of the KGB. It is not possible to research clearly what happened to the 6 aviation halls between 1945 and the early 1990s, but the neighboring barracks also housed a department of VEB Spezialhochbau, a construction company for military installations. The listed aircraft hangars will soon be converted into apartments in the “Gartenstadt Karlshorst” development area, while the other buildings on the site have already been or will be demolished. The area is not accessible.