WISTA

Today it covers an area of 4.2 square kilometres (1.6 sq mi) making it the largest science park in Germany.

After the total destruction of Berlin in 1945, the new Eastern Government decided to move the German Academy of Sciences to Adlershof.

The aviation field was closed down (as air transport had been moved to Berlin-Schönefeld Airport a few miles away) and the guards regiment Feliks Dzierzynski (12,000 soldiers) occupied the military buildings.

Since then, it helps developing the cluster partly like a business incubator, with network management, communication and marketing, acceleration of special fields of technology and acquisition of projects, investments and companies.

In the direct vicinity, an ensemble of meanwhile 454 commercial enterprises, shops, hotels and restaurants has been created in addition to the Media City with its 189 companies.

Here, as well as on the approximately 45-hectare area of the Schöneweide marshalling yard ("Gleislinse"), which was closed in 1998, the Science and Technology Park has ideal space for further growth.