Johan's Ark

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Johan's Ark is on a barge mounted replica of the Ark of the Dutch Johan Huibers. The dates correspond to those in the Bible from Genesis , on a scale of 1: 2. He then built a second ark, this time the size of the original, which has been open to the public since 2012.

Johan's Ark in the port of Schagen (2006)
Look into the ark

Construction of the ark

In 1992 Johan Huibers had a nightmare and in that dream saw the Netherlands flood. So he decided to make a scaled-down replica of the ark. The planning and construction took around 16 years. If a cubit is 0.4375 meters, the biblical ark is about 131 meters (300 cubits) long, about 22 meters (50 cubits) wide, and about 13 meters (30 cubits) high. This results in a volume of 131 m × 22 m × 13 m = 37,500 m³ or a gross tonnage of 13,250 GRT. The ship was finished after around twenty years and costs of over one million euros. It was initially opened to visitors in Dordrecht (south of Rotterdam ).

The ark as a bible adventure park

The Dutch puppeteer, theater and TV producer Aad Peters took over the Arche in 2010 and developed it into a floating Bible adventure park, which opened in Rotterdam in February. The ark is 70 meters long, 13 meters high, 10 meters wide and weighs around 3,000 t. In 2011 the Ark began touring various Dutch cities. It then drove to Cologne in July 2011, pulled by tugs, and had around 70,000 visitors here. In March 2013 it went from Delfzijl to the old inland port of Emden . Then it lay for six weeks in the old fishing port of Cuxhaven and on May 1, 2013 the ark came to Hamburg for the 34th Kirchentag . During the port's birthday it was in the Harburg inland port.

  • The ark on its tour

  • The ark from the front in the Harburg inland port (2013)

  • The Ark in Flensburg Harbor (2013)

  • The Ark in Kiel (2013)

  • The ark in the rain in front of the Red Castle (MSM) in Flensburg - Mürwik (2015)

Description of the ark

The interior has been divided into four floors with exhibition rooms containing scenes from the Old and New Testaments. The biblical stories of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and others are presented. The twelve meter high tree of life grows through the whole ark. The exhibitions, some of which are interactive, contain replicas of animals rescued from the flood such as bears, buffalo, giraffes, zebras, gorillas, lions, tigers and others. There are also live harmless animals such as sheep, goats, dogs and rabbits in the rooms. There was also space in the ark for a restaurant, a cinema and various play stations for children.

Web links

Commons : Johans Arche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ark of Noah, The Life Size Noah's Ark. Retrieved December 3, 2018 (American English).