The hangar is 360 metres long, 220 metres wide and 106 metres high – big enough to contain the Eiffel Tower on its side, or the Statue of Liberty and eight football pitches!Ĭargolifter began converting the hangar into an airship factory called Aerium in 1996. In the 1990s, the Cargolifter company of Wiesbaden planned to build airships there, returning the site to its original purpose. The airfield was officially given back to the Federal Government of Germany in 1992. The Soviet Air Force had extended the runway and housed a fighter regiment there in the interim, but they agreed to hand it back after the reunification of West Germany and East Germany. Germany could not reclaim it until after the nation’s reunification in 1990. Instead, the hangar became a base for the Luftwaffe after it opened in 1938, but just seven years later, as the war ended, it was captured by the advancing Soviet Army in May 1945. German passenger airship, the LZ 129 Hindenburg, set alight and was destroyed as it attempted to dock at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, causing 36 fatalities. However, the Hindenburg disaster of 1937 led to the widescale distrust of the airship. It was to be a factory for the construction of airships. Originally planned and constructed in the 1930s, during the run-up to the Second World War, the hangar is located around 35 miles from Berlin. The story behind the Tropical Island resort is a fascinating one.
The hangar is the third largest building on the planet in terms of its 5.2 million cubic metre volume, and at a constant 26☌ inside, the building houses the world’s biggest indoor tropical rainforest. The spectacular Tropical Island holiday resort is located in the one-time Cargolifter airship hangar at Brand-Briesen Airfield in Brandenburg, Germany.īoasting a climate resembling the Maldives, the resort has been open since 2004. A former aircraft hangar, that was built before the Second World War for the Luftwaffe, has been transformed into a tropical paradise in the heart of Europe.
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