Leeraner miniature land
| Leeraner miniature land | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 2011 |
| Seat | Leer (East Frisia) , Germany |
| Branch | Model making , model railroad |
| Website | Leeraner-miniaturland.de |
Leeraner Miniaturland is the name of a 1500 square meter, growing model building landscape in the Lower Saxon town of Leer . The operator is the Leeraner Miniaturland LM GmbH. The model building landscape, which opened on June 25, 2011, is located on the western outskirts of Leer, only separated from the Emsdeich by the motorway feeder, in halls specially built for this purpose.
Since spring 2015, the facility has been expanded by over 2000 square meters in a second building. The first expansion stage was opened on September 1, 2016. So far, scenes from Bad Zwischenahn and Oldenburg can be viewed on the ground floor of the extension . The Leeraner Miniaturland is one of the largest model plants in Germany.
In August 2017 it was announced that the Leeraner Miniaturwunderland is taking over the miniature facility Loxx . This 800 square meter model layout, which was on display in the Alexa department store in Berlin until the end of August 2017, shows the Berlin Reichstag district with the Reichstag, Federal Chancellery and Bellevue Palace; it comprises around 1,000 buildings and 200 trains. The move from Berlin to Leer and the reconstruction of the facility were completed in spring 2018. The exhibition is now on the upper floor of the extension.
Exhibition areas
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Indoor model system
In the hall that was set up first, houses, streets with vehicles, railways and rivers are presented on a H0 scale (1:87), the models of which are in reality within the geographical area of the East Frisian islands of Borkum , Juist and Norderney in the north, by Papenburg and Bourtange in the southwest and Aurich in the east. The objects are presented roughly according to their actual location; the open landscape between them, large parts of the Wadden Sea and uninhabited parts of the islands have largely been left out.
In the facility, which is shielded from daylight, the change in the time of day is simulated by different lighting, which is intended to evoke the viewer's idea of day, twilight and night. In night mode, the halls are illuminated solely by the lights installed in the house models.
Around 5,000 buildings and sights, 15,000 trees and bushes, 7,000 cars, 300 trains and wagons and around 250 ships were produced for the exhibition by 2011. The total length of the roads and railways was around nine kilometers up to 2016. Not only train trains, but also some of the motor vehicles are on their own. The model of a cruise ship built by Meyer Werft in Papenburg has been operating on the imaginary Ems since 2013 . The facility was equipped with over 110,000 figures by 2016.
The extension was opened on September 1, 2016. In addition to Oldenburg and Bad Zwischenahn, the areas north of Oldenburg (especially Wilhelmshaven and Harlingerland ) are to be represented after the expansion work has been completed.
In August 2018, the 80 square meter model of the capital's airport, manufactured in Leer, was made available to the public.
Provisional exhibition parts such as the islands of Baltrum and Langeoog have been set up at the edge of passages.
AIDAsol model travels across the Ems in Miniaturland
Evenburg (foreground) and Leer (background) divided by the Rheine – Norddeich Mole railway line in night mode
From the Loxx legacy: Red City Hall and TV tower in Berlin
Garden railway
In June 2013, a steerable garden railway on a scale of 1:22 was built in the park of the Miniaturland. On a track length of 1000 m, surrounded by many buildings from the East Friesland region, visitors can drive various locomotives themselves and influence switch settings.
Model exhibitions of cars, trucks and locomotives
Since 2013, model exhibitions have been complementing the Leeraner Miniaturland independently of the model layout. They consist of over 2000 model cars and model trucks of various scales as well as a large collection of hundreds of steam locomotives.
Outdoor area
In July 2016, an 18-hole mini golf course was opened, which expanded the garden area by 5000 m². By 2020, an area of 2500 square meters is to be built on from the open space.
Organization and finance
The initiator of the Leeraner Miniaturland is the software entrepreneur Wolfgang Teske. His company's offices are on the upper floors of the building in the northwest of the facility. Teske invested 2.3 million euros in the Leeraner Miniaturland project by 2014. He intended to spend another four million euros on the expansion. According to Teske, the facility is “an investment in a tourism concept. It has to pay off at some point. ”At the end of 2014, Teske received a one-time grant of € 730,000 from the state of Lower Saxony as business and tourism funding for the structurally weak region in the far north-west of Germany. The City of Leer Urban Development Committee also welcomes Teske's "extensive building projects". In his opinion, the Leeraner Miniaturland should develop into the largest miniature facility in the world in terms of area.
For the acquisition of the Loxx system, Teske paid, according to its own statements, "a medium six-figure sum".
Response and visitor numbers
Shortly after the opening in 2011, the then Vice Chancellor and FDP boss Philipp Rösler was a guest in the Leeraner Miniaturland. Between June and December 2011, 38,880 guests visited Miniaturland (an average of 216 people per opening day); 63 percent of the visitors lived more than 50 kilometers from Leer.
In February 2012, the plant operator Wolfgang Teske specified 100,000 as the “targeted” number of visitors. However, it was not until March 2013 that the one hundred thousandth guest entered the facility. By December 2014 a total of 220,000 visitors were counted.
One year after the opening, in summer 2012, the number of visitors reached 62,000. In 2015, the Leeraner Miniaturland counted 64,000, in 2016 around 72,500 visitors.
Awards
In September 2013 Tourismus Marketing Niedersachsen GmbH recognized the Leeraner Miniaturland as the first company in the holiday area "Südliches Ostfriesland" as "particularly child-friendly" and certified it. For this certification process, an independent auditor checked 50 criteria in the categories: service, safety and equipment.
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the Leeraner Miniaturland
- Press release of the Leeraner Miniaturland dated August 27, 2015 , accessed on November 3, 2018
- Photos of the Miniaturland
- Big plans for Leeraner Miniaturland on ndr.de, accessed on December 29, 2014
- "We wanted to save Berlin from being broken up" on October 2, 2017 on ndr.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Papenburg to Pilsum on a scale of 1:87 - The Leeraner Miniaturland opens its doors Saturday , Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, June 24th, 2011.
- ^ New Miniature Land - East Friesland in dwarf format . Focus . June 24, 2011.
- ↑ infomax websolutions GmbH - www.infomax-online.de: Leeraner Miniaturland - expansion planning finished - start of construction - press archive - press releases - press pool Lower Saxony. Retrieved November 2, 2018 .
- ^ To a mulled wine in Miniaturland Leer , NDR , February 14, 2017.
- ↑ a b Jörg Schürmeyer: Berliner Loxx in Miniaturland in Leer: Government district moves to East Friesland , Nordwest-Zeitung, August 9, 2017.
- ↑ Leeraner Miniaturland: Numbers and Dates ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Oliver Gressieker: Leeraner Miniaturland municipality Oldenburg ( Memento from June 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), NDR.de, April 16, 2016.
- ↑ Oliver Gressieker: Small but nice: Oldenburg now also in Leer ( Memento from August 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), NDR.de, August 25, 2016.
- ↑ NDR: BER is finally finished - but in Leer . June 28, 2018 ( ndr.de [accessed November 2, 2018]).
- ^ NDR: BER Airport is ready to go - in Miniaturland . "Hello Lower Saxony". 19th August 2018
- ^ Lars Laue: Our region in miniature format , Nordwest-Zeitung, July 30, 2016.
- ↑ Jan-Hendrik Kuntze: Will Germany's largest miniature country soon be in Leer? January 7, 2017 ( noz.de [accessed November 2, 2018]).
- ↑ Land gives 730,000 euros. Million sum for the expansion of the miniature land Leer . noz.de. December 29, 2014, accessed November 5, 2018
- ↑ Ingo Tonsor: Leeraner Miniaturland with the East Friesland adventure park - open over Easter . Leer city portal . March 24, 2016, accessed November 5, 2018
- ↑ Leeraner Miniaturland: East Frisia is getting bigger! ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Leeraner Miniaturland: The Year 2011 ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Mirja Zipfel: Miniaturland - Big plans for a small world . nwzonline. February 28, 2012, accessed November 6, 2018
- ↑ Leeraner Miniaturland ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . OS-Nachbarn.de, Medienhaus Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, March 9, 2013
- ↑ Miniaturland in Leer counted 62,000 visitors in the first year . Hamburger Abendblatt . 5th July 2012
- ↑ Will Germany's largest miniature wonderland soon be in Leer? , Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, January 7, 2017
Coordinates: 53 ° 13 '53 " N , 7 ° 25' 45.1" E