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place Kevelaer - Twisteden , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
opening 1999
Visitors approx. 1 million / year 
surface approx. 30 ha
Website Irrland.de
Irrland (Germany)
Ireland
Ireland
Location of the park

Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 20 ″  N , 6 ° 12 ′ 17 ″  E

The Irrland is a theme park in Kevelaer - Twisteden in North Rhine-Westphalia . The park was created in 1999 from a farm with a maize maze and over the years has grown into a park with an area of ​​around 300,000 m². With around 1 million visitors a year, Irrland is one of the most popular leisure attractions in the Lower Rhine region . In 2012, the world's first accessible airport was opened in Irrland .

history

The Irrland originated from 1999, when the couple John and Josephine "Josi" angle-Tebartz-van Elst as a sideline to his farm corn maze docked and this by a petting zoo added, pony rides and some games. Over the years the park has been continuously expanded. Because of its germ cell, the maize ("maze") made of maize , the facility was named Irrland , which the park continues to this day.

In 2010, the grounds and buildings of the neighboring Plantaria flower and bird park were taken over, almost doubling the area of Irrland .

Concept and offers

The park is primarily aimed at families with children up to the age of 12. He therefore deliberately refrains from elaborate rides and instead relies on simple equipment and family / child-friendly design.

In Irrland u. a .:

  • Playground areas with play equipment such as climbing frames, slides, seesaws, swings, bouncy castles, maze, building blocks, etc.
  • Farm area with petting zoo , farm animals, corn barn, straw bale climbing pile, etc.
  • Water areas with paddling pools, water slides, etc.
  • Vehicle areas with pedal vehicles etc.
  • Zoo areas with various wild animals (kangaroos, parrots, coatis, monkeys, owls, ...)
  • “Airfield” area with decommissioned, partially playable aircraft

Barbecue and picnic areas are distributed over the entire site. Visitors are expressly allowed to cater for themselves here.

  • An 18 m high slide tower designed as a “ tower ” in the “airfield” area

  • View from the "Tower" over the area

  • One of the historical aircraft prepared as play equipment (here type Aeritalia G.222 )

  • Kangaroos ( red-necked wallabies) in the zoo area

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The Irrland in Kevelaer. Parkscout, July 10, 2012, accessed May 7, 2015 .
  2. ↑ The labyrinth idea led to an oasis of experience . In: Subject Economy . July / August 2012. Niederrheinische IHK ( online as PDF ).
  3. ↑ Green island "Irrland". In: Neue Rhein Zeitung (NRZ) Online. August 3, 2008, accessed May 7, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b Andreas Gebbink: Amusement park: Greater Irrland will soon open its doors to visitors . In: Neue Rhein Zeitung (NRZ) . March 11, 2010 ( full text in the NRZ's online archive ).
  5. ↑ Plantaria Niederrheinpark Twisteden. In: Blattus Martini - Kevelaer Encyclopedia. Martin Willing, accessed May 7, 2015 .
  6. ↑ 73. Change of the regional plan for the administrative district of Düsseldorf (GEP 99) in the area of ​​the city Kevelaer - representation of an ASB-E (play and adventure park Irrland) . Proposed resolution for the meeting of the regional council. District government Düsseldorf, January 25, 2011 ( online as PDF ).
  7. ↑ Plantaria is closed. In: Rheinische Post (online). January 6, 2010, accessed May 7, 2015 .
  8. ↑ "Irrland" builds an airport. In: Rheinische Post (online). November 4, 2011, accessed May 7, 2015 .

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