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Cool oases in Treptow-Köpenick: How to protect yourself from the heat!
From June to August 2025, Treptow-Köpenick offers free cool rooms to cool off on hot days and promotes social activities.
Cool oases in Treptow-Köpenick: How to protect yourself from the heat!
As part of the measures to combat the summer heat, a total of ten cool rooms were set up for citizens in the Treptow-Köpenick district from June 1st to August 30th, 2025. These are intended to serve as a rest area to cool down and take a break. The initiative, implemented for the first time this year, is part of a broader heat action plan that is also based on heat-related health risks. According to berlin.de, the rooms are equipped with heat-repellent films and climate-resilient measures to increase the comfort of the users.
The cool rooms offer visitors free drinking water, access to sanitary facilities and the opportunity to exchange ideas and experience social activities in a pleasant atmosphere. Trained employees in the KIEZKLUBs are responsible for ensuring that people affected by heat are dealt with. On Heat Action Day on June 4, 2025, awareness-raising on the topic of heat protection will also take place in order to educate residents about the risks and measures recommended in extreme temperatures.
Space availability and opening times
In Treptow-Köpenick there are eight cool rooms available until the end of August, and even nine on particularly hot days over 30 degrees. These rooms are open to the public until a maximum of 5 p.m. during the week, but are closed on weekends. The initiative is part of the city's efforts to create appropriate protection measures against the increasing heat stress caused by climate change. The negative effects on the health and quality of life of residents make measures such as the provision of cool places to retreat urgently necessary, as reported by t-online.de.
The already published heat action plan from the Spandau district office complements the offer in Treptow-Köpenick by providing valuable information on heat waves, tips on behavior and a heat map. In Spandau, churches are also listed as cool retreats, but they do not offer citizens drinking water. This shows how important it is to create additional options for keeping cool in the city, especially for vulnerable groups such as older people, children, pregnant women and people with previous illnesses. The heat is seen as an underestimated danger, which underlines the need for comprehensive preventive measures.
Heat resilience measures
The increasing heat stress in cities requires adaptation measures, which will be examined more intensively in the coming months. Nationale-Stadtentwicklungspolitik.de emphasizes that the question of cooling and tolerable living conditions for all people is becoming more and more urgent. Transforming cities to increase their heat resilience is of central importance to ensure the quality of life of residents in the long term. Therefore, offering cool spaces is just one of many steps required to effectively address the challenges of climate change.