It was once the site of a Nazi airfield; the landing spot for planes delivering supplies to people cut off by the Berlin Wall; in more recent times an emergency shelter for Syrian refugees; and if a proposed plan goes ahead - Berlin's newest red-light district.

The mayor of the city's central Mitte district, Stephan von Dassel, is proposing 'Verichtungsboxen' boxes - booths where prostitutes receive their clientele - be set up at Tempelhof Airport.

His proposal for the establishment of the sex booths - which include drive-in booths where customers can meet sex workers in their own vehicles - came as part of a discussion about street prostitution in his district and how to improve the safety of Berlin's sex workers

In the debate around street prostitution on Kurfürstenstrasse - an upmarket street in Mitte with a history of sex workers - Mr von Dassel spoke out in favour of the sex boxes - on the condition that the street was declared a restricted area for street prostitution.

American C-47 Skytrain transport planes have their cargoes of food unloaded at Templehof Airport during the Berlin Airlift. The supplies were delivered to people living in West Berlin who had been cut off by the Berlin War during the Cold War

A festival of kites is held at the former Tempelhof airport in Berlin. The former Nazi airfield is now a popular public park that hosts a number of festival and events for people in the city

As well as the parking areas at the former airport on Templehofer Damm, he also proposed the central fairground in the Mitte district, or the area under the viaduct of the line U2 at the Bülowbogen as potential sites for the sex booths.

In a statement he said the current situation for sex workers in Berlin was 'inhumane'.

'By accepting the current situation, the state of Berlin tolerates and promotes forced prostitution, violence against women and drug addiction by women in existential distress,' he said.

'Publicly controlled performance boxes can improve working conditions, especially women's safety, and reduce the negative impact of prostitution on the living environment.

'Performance boxes only bring about an improvement in the overall situation, even if they can be used by a car and another public practice of sex work is restricted by a Restricted Area Ordinance.'

Stephan von Dassel, is proposing 'Verichtungsboxen' boxes - booths where prostitutes receive their clientele - be set up at Tempelhof Airport. The space is currently a public park and people can often be seen rollerblading and cycling on the old airstrip in the evenings and on weekends