Since then, other actors have helped Charlie Brown try to kick footballs, fly kites and ponder the meaning of life.

NPR: 'Great Pumpkin' Marks 40 Years on TV

The historic site opened as a public park in May and now it attracts visitors who come to cycle, skate, jog and fly kites.

CNN: Sites of Berlin's industrial past get a second life

Pulling out of the station past the back yards of a multitude of Cairene families, our children watch in wonder as local kids play football beside the tracks, bathe in muddy rivulets, fly kites from the roofs of their homes and wave at the passing train.

BBC: Travel with children: The night train to Luxor

On summer evenings the children of Berlin fly brightly coloured kites on the Teufelsburg - the Devils Mountain.

BBC: Berlin: Soaked in history