Kalkar wonderland

Kalkar wonderland
place	Kalkar
opening	1995
Visitors	280,000 (2014)
surface	19 ha
Website	https://www.wunderlandkalkar.eu/de
Kalkar wonderland Location of the park

Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 51 ″  N , 6 ° 19 ′ 34 ″  E

The Wunderland Kalkar (until the beginning of 2005 Kernwasser-Wunderland ) is a leisure center that was built in 1995 on the area of ​​the fast breeder in Kalkar , which never went into operation . Parts of the facility are a congress center with 20 meeting rooms and the family amusement park Kernie's family park . The owner is the Dutch entrepreneur Hennie van der Most, who bought the nuclear power plant, which was abandoned in 1991, for a purchase price between three and five million DM . The managing director is Han Groot Obbink.

Attractions Kernie's Family Park

There are 40 attractions on the premises, including a roller coaster , the whirligig Flying Carrousel , the vertical travel Jumping Star , Kernie's boat , the nostalgic carousel merry go round , the Ferris wheel mini Ferris wheel and a log flume . 2008 also opened a Disk'O -Coaster.

The outer wall of the cooling tower was converted into a climbing wall . In addition, since 2009 it has housed a new large chain carousel called Vertical Swing , which weighs 25 tons and with its 58 m height towers over the edge of the tower; there is also a children's park with ten different attractions.

Roller coasters and water rides

roller coaster

Surname	Type	Construction year	opening
Roller coaster	Zamperla Powered Coaster	2000	2000

Water rides

Surname	Type	Construction year	opening
Flume	Zamperla wild water ride	2000	2000

Elevated and circular rides

Kalkar wonderland

Roller coaster with the cooling tower in the background

Surname	Type	Construction year	opening
pirate	Zamperla Galleon swinging	2000	2000
Tea Cup	Zamperla Tea Cup	2001	2001
Kernie's boat	Zamperla Rockin 'Tug	2004	2004
Flying carousel	Zamperla chain carousel	2000	2000
Balloon race	Zamperla balloon race	2000	2000
Samba Tower	Zamperla Samba Tower	2000	2000
Demolition Derby	Zamperla Demolition Derby	2000	2000
Vertical swing	Zamperla Vertical Swing	2009	2009
Disco	Zamperla Disk'O	2008	2008
Jumping Star	Zamperla Jumping Star	2000	2000
regatta	Zamperla regatta	2000	2000
Atlantis	Huss Rides Condor	1994	2015

Themed tours and tours

Surname	Type	Construction year	opening
Ferris Wheel	Zamperla ferris wheel	2001	2001

Trivia

The Kalkar heliport is located on the northern part of the site . On the southern part there are six hotels including Hotel Charlotte, Hotel Rosalie, Hotel Barbara and Hotel Rosamunde as part of the resort. The hotels meet the DEHOGA 2-star standard.

Web links

Commons : Wunderland Kalkar  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Leisure center website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chris Kitching: Having a blast! Abandoned nuclear plant transformed into theme park… complete with a swing ride inside an old cooling tower. In: dailymail.co.uk , February 24, 2015, accessed February 28, 2015
2. ↑ A wonderland in Kalkar is for sale , nrz.de, August 4, 2018
3. ↑ GreenLive: The trade fair for agriculture , rp-online.de , December 3, 2018