alpincenter Hamburg-Wittenburg
The alpincenter Hamburg-Wittenburg (formerly Snow Funpark) is a ski hall in Wittenburg in the west of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, around 80 kilometers east of Hamburg .
The winter sports hall located on the 33.8 hectare site has a slope area of 30,000 m², the main slope has a slope length of 330 meters and a width of 80 meters with a height difference of 57 meters. In addition, a halfpipe with a size of 13 × 18 × 5 meters is installed inside. There is a 4- seater chair lift , a drag lift and treadmills for transporting winter sports enthusiasts . There are also hotels, catering facilities, conference rooms and other usable and event spaces on the company's premises. The ski hall, which is already visible from the federal highway 24 , has shaped the cityscape since its construction .
history
The ski hall first opened under the name Snow Funpark on December 8, 2006 after a seven-month construction period. The cost of the construction project amounted to 75 million euros, a portion of 17.4 million euros was approved by the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, of which 15.9 million had been distributed by 2008. The property was the fifth indoor ski area in Germany, the fourth opened a few months earlier in Bispingen, Lower Saxony, and thus also in the Hamburg area. In July 2007 the so-called outdoor adventure world with a go-kart track, high ropes course and wellness facility opened on the grounds of the Snow Funpark . As early as December 2007 there were rumors that the winter sports park was in financial difficulties due to utilization problems, which the operator denied. In January 2008 the first Snowboard World Cup took place in Wittenburg. Due to a lack of visitor numbers, 50 of the 264 workplaces were cut in March 2008, and the facility will remain closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. The State Audit Office examined the granting of funds. While investors from the Netherlands, Great Britain and Germany have already expressed interest in the ski hall, the operator Hans-Gerd Hanel, who ran a company for air conditioning, refrigeration and process technology in Hamburg, still denied that the fun park or one of his companies was present the bankruptcy stand. In June 2008 it became known that the Hanel Holding had been filed for insolvency at the local court of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg.
Since October 16, 2008, the new operator of the facility has been the Dutch Van der Valk Group, which by then had already owned three hotel and holiday resort projects in Mecklenburg. The company initially signed a lease with an option to buy. Another ski hall run by Van der Valk is located in the alpincenter Bottrop in North Rhine-Westphalia. When the property in Wittenburg was taken over, the Snow Funpark was renamed alpincenter Hamburg-Wittenburg .
After the foundations rose in the ground due to the effects of frost, the ski hall was closed by the building supervision of the Ludwigslust district in August 2010. Operator and construction company argued about the causes. Van der Valk insisted on continuing to operate or even buying the property. The reopening, which was initially planned for November 2010, has been postponed again and again, most recently according to own statements due to complex static calculations. The hall was reopened on September 24, 2011 after the operator rented it from the bank. In December 2010, Hypo Alpe Adria -Bank sold the ski hall to Van der Valk.
Directions
The ski hall is one kilometer from the Wittenburg motorway exit.
The ski hall can only be reached with difficulty from Hamburg or Berlin by public transport. The ski hall is located directly at the train station in Wittenburg on the Hagenow-Zarrentin railway line , but only goods traffic takes place on it (a reactivation of passenger traffic is under discussion). The last train station served is currently Hagenow Land or Hagenow Stadt , with a bus connection to Wittenburg. The bus stop Wittenburg, industrial area is just under a kilometer from the ski hall. Alternatively, there is also a continuous cycle path between Hagenow and Wittenburg.
In the winter months, BVB Berlin offers a day trip by coach from Berlin to the ski hall once a month.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Operator website with an overview of offers
- ^ Black Book : Europe's largest "Snow Fun Park". In: focus.de. October 9, 2008, accessed April 19, 2017 (based on the 2008 Black Book of the Taxpayers Association ).
- ↑ a b Ski hall - You are Bavarian. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 17, 2006
- ↑ Chronology of the Snow Funpark. In: Schweriner Volkszeitung , June 12, 2008
- ↑ Fresh snow in a ski paradise. In: Schweriner Volkszeitung , October 16, 2008
- ↑ Shivering on the ski slope. In: Schweriner Volkszeitung , October 1, 2010
- ↑ Press release from Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank ( Memento from June 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: presseportal.de , December 15, 2010, accessed on October 14, 2016
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Coordinates: 53 ° 30 ′ 29.6 ″ N , 11 ° 5 ′ 37.5 ″ E