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.
Berlin-Tempelhof Airport
Berlin-Tempelhof Airport was one of the first commercial airports in Germany and began regular services in 1923. The new airport building, which was built in 1936, was after its completion in 1941 with a gross floor area of 307,000 m² for two years the largest building in the world before it was replaced by the Pentagon in Arlington. Until its closure on October 30, 2008, it was one of three international airports in the greater Berlin area, along with Berlin-Tegel and Berlin-Schönefeld, and was known as the Central Airport. In the last year of 2007, before its closure, around 350,000 passengers were handled there. I was one of you. I flew to Cologne and back with a Germania plane. The landing approach over the sea of houses in Neukölln and Tempelhof has been memorable. Practically low over the city as the runway was very short. In the same year I booked a tour of the airport with the underworld. The airport has extensive underground facilities that extend down over three floors. With the abandonment of the expansion in 1942, these and some above-ground elements were no longer built. For example, production facilities for aircraft (during World War II), film archives, power plants and the later command center of the US Army were housed underground. During the Second World War, the underground rooms were also indispensably used as an air raid shelter for the population. Remnants of "wall paintings" based on motifs by Wilhelm Busch have been preserved. Some cellars were still completely sooty. That was the so-called film bunker. Soviet soldiers blew up the gates here in May 1945, but behind them the aerial photo archive of Lufthansa and the Air Force was stored on celluloid "bombproof", which then caught fire immediately and burned out completely. It was also interesting that during the war 4500 employees and forced laborers of the Weser works were producing under the building in a railway tunnel and in the hangars 2000 Ju 87 and 170 FW 190.
In the upper area of the building complex we saw the reception hall, some unused rooms, the sports hall and the lounge of the American soldiers. Unfortunately, the control center of the air traffic controllers and the American spy rooms could not be visited.
Visits to the airport are still offered today.
