Rock Climbing in Germany

Berlin is not a city for climbers. Unfortunately, it’s flat and doesn’t offer any interesting rock getaways within easy reach. However, if you love the German capital for all the other reasons and still wish to strain the tendons somewhere, you’re unlikely to be disappointed. There are many well-equipped climbing and bouldering gyms in which you can make a first attempts to reach the top or simply build up your strength and stamina for any outdoor conquests. This article will guide you through the walls in the city.

Berlin has three huge gyms to climb with a rope, couple of outdoor concrete towers and the famous Bunker. If you sign in to Der Deutsche Alpenverein (DAV – German Alpine Club), you would be able to use some of these places easily (including special facility called Mercedes-Welt am Salzufer).

Unfortunately, all of the outdoor options for Berlin’s climbers are artificial. The oldest tower for open-air climbing is located in Teufelsberg. It reaches up 9,80m and has over 60 routes. The second one worth trying (Kirchbachspitze in Schöneberg) is higher, but grants only 45 routes.

For indoor climbing, you should head to T-Hall in Neukölln or Magic Mountain in Wedding. Both gyms are relatively big, well equipped (including gym equipment and sauna) and offer both leading and top-rope routes (the ones at Magic Mountain are longer). In both of them, you can boulder too, but it’s more of a warm-up option rather than an alternative to other bouldering places.