Great place which used to be spooky but was cleaned up a lot for this event so the crunched dinosaurs are no longer in long grass, there was do not cross tape everywhere and some areas were off limits. Guards were annoyingly good.
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| I had to wait till late Sunday to get a shot without people in it :( |
As I understand it: The Kulturpark Plänterwald started in 1969 as a socialist project but was liquidated by the Senate in 1989, and privately re-opened as Spreepark but then closed again in 2001 after the operating company went bankrupt. Thus the era of amusement parks in the city came to an abrupt end. In the middle of Berlin this property lies idle.
Apparently, in the good years the park got 1.5 million visits but by 2001 it was down to 400,000 so it closed. Here the story takes a slight detour from the usual. In 2002 the owner and his family moved to Lima, Peru to open a new themepark. They shipped six rides from Berlin to Lima. It wasn't a success in Lima so in 2004 they came back. At this point the owner was arrested and sentenced to seven years in jail for smuggling 180 kg cocaine back from Peru in one of the rides....
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| Managed to get this shot before the guards found me. |
The Ferris wheel was the highight as its out in the middle of a pond which made for great pictures. The pond of course being stagnant and full of weeds (and frogs).
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| Right behind it was a kinda Viking ship (bizarre theme to this theme park) but that area was fenced off so couldn't see it up close. |
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| Bizarre cars that followed a track off into the woods. |
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| Roller Coaster |
This video has much more:
www.berliner-spreepark.de/40_jahre_rummel_im_plaenterwald_fuehrungen.html
Andy
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