Corn Maze

Aerial photo of a maize maze in Bielefeld

Corn maze from the inside

Maize labyrinth in Delingsdorf 2008

Corn mazes are as a summer pleasure scale (usually from July to Thanksgiving used) mazes in maize crops .

A network of paths up to three kilometers long is possible on areas of 10,000 to 45,000 m², for which visitors need up to 1.5 hours. In order to achieve a thicker vegetation (opacity), the maize is usually sown twice (criss-cross). The labyrinth is planned as a true-to-scale sketch of paths, crossings and dead ends and created by milling or cutting after the maize plants have first grown (approx. 10 to 20 cm). When designing such field labyrinths, various aids including GPS technology and cultivated plants such as sunflowers, hemp or millet can be used. In addition to abstract patterns, UFOs , maps, symbols, fairy tale motifs and the like are shown.

Many of these labyrinths use illustrated display boards to provide visitors with interesting facts about agriculture, among other things . They are combined with other attractions: barefoot park , playground, sandpit , herb garden, straw castle , quizzes and competitions, caves, climbing playground , petting zoo , pony rides , picnic niches or live concerts.

The first known corn maze was created in 1993 based on an idea by producer Don Frantz as an aid project for Lebanon Valley College in the US state of Pennsylvania . It was designed by the maze designer Adrian Fisher and depicted a stegosaurus .

Scary labyrinths

In the United States, corn fields have been used as open-air horror mazes since 2000. Scenes are set up in a classic maize maze , in which mostly professional scareactors try to scare the visitors. In 2007 one of the first of these corn labyrinths was built as a horror attraction as part of the Scarefest in the English theme park Alton Towers . In 2010 and 2011 such an attraction could also be found at the Horror Nights in Europa-Park Rust.

Also in 2007 the first night of horrors took place in a classic corn maze. In contrast to the horror attractions, an existing labyrinth is converted here for one or more evenings. The first and now the largest event of this kind is MaisMaze in the Ditzinger corn labyrinth near Stuttgart.

Examples

Tulley's Farm, Crawley , West Sussex , redesigned annually as a horror attraction by Adrian Fisher.

In DACH

Corn labyrinths (ML) are only opened to the public when the plants are high enough to restrict the view. However, the installation must take place months in advance.

Austria

In Hengsberg , Styria there is since 2002, opened z. B. on July 12, 2007, an ML operated by a farmer at N46.864667, E15.453325 on the main road, north of the L601, which is typically only open on weekends from early afternoon. It didn't open in Covid19 year 2020. The website maislabyrinth.at refers to a Facebook presence with the note "Closed".

In Kronstorf , Upper Austria, Finkenstraße, the farmer Martin Forstner has been running an ML with an area of 25,000 m² every day from 2019 until September.

Around 2010 there was a ML in Zollfeld , Carinthia, north of Maria Saal, west of the Klagenfurt expressway S37.

In 2006 there was a "real corn maze" near Ottensheim.

In 2007 there was an ML at Burgauberg .

Web links

Commons : Corn Maze - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

↑ Colloquially, “labyrinth” and “maze” are used synonymously. For the experts, however, a labyrinth is always just a path that leads to the center without any branches or dead ends. Mazes, on the other hand, gain their appeal through options.
↑ lvc.edu: Nation's First Corn Maze Rooted at LVC Lebanon Valley College News, October 29, 2010. Accessed September 11, 2012 found.
↑ news.google.com: Maze is built in cornfield to benefit flood victims In: Observer-Reporter, August 2, 1993. Retrieved September 11, 2012.
^ Website of the maize labytinth in Ditzingen (accessed on July 29, 2013)
↑ Guy Cooper, Gordon Taylor 2002, The curious gardener's six elements of garden design. London, Headline, 40-42
↑ Maize maze has reopened tips.at, accessed August 13, 2020.
↑ labyrinths in Austria das-labyrinth.at August, accessed 13 2020th

[1] Colloquially, “labyrinth” and “maze” are used synonymously. For the experts, however, a labyrinth is always just a path that leads to the center without any branches or dead ends. Mazes, on the other hand, gain their appeal through options.

[2] vc.edu: Nation's First Corn Maze Rooted at LVC Lebanon Valley College News, October 29, 2010. Accessed September 11, 2012 found.

[3] ws.google.com: Maze is built in cornfield to benefit flood victims In: Observer-Reporter, August 2, 1993. Retrieved September 11, 2012.

[4] Website of the maize labytinth in Ditzingen (accessed on July 29, 2013)

[5] Guy Cooper, Gordon Taylor 2002, The curious gardener's six elements of garden design. London, Headline, 40-42

[6] Maize maze has reopened tips.at, accessed August 13, 2020.

[7] yrinths in Austria das-labyrinth.at August, accessed 13 2020th