Mini Mundus Bodensee
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| place | Meckenbeuren , Germany | |||
| opening | May 8, 2005 | |||
| closure | 2013 | |||
| surface | 4 hectares | |||
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Coordinates: 47 ° 42 ′ 41 ″ N , 9 ° 35 ′ 26 ″ E
Mini Mundus Bodensee (from the Latin mundus 'world') was a miniature park opened on May 8, 2005 in the Liebenau district of Meckenbeur next to the Ravensburger Spieleland . The park showed almost 90 of the most beautiful buildings in the world on a scale of 1:25. Until 2009, the park operator used the spelling Minimundus Bodensee . Before the 2013 season opened, operations were closed.
Miniature park
The last owner of the 40,000 square meter park, which cost around 14.5 million euros, was the Bank for Tyrol and Vorarlberg (BTV). Mini Mundus Bodensee was economically independent from the Minimundus leisure park on Lake Wörthersee near Klagenfurt .
The models were framed by gardens, a restaurant with a terrace and a river with rafts. Original materials were predominantly used in the construction of the models. Most of them were built transportable and were dismantled during the winter break. All models had an information board with details. In addition, there were some multimedia columns that offered images, information and video films on a monitor.
The model of the Burj al Arab hotel in Dubai was the highest model in the park (12.80 m). The most expensive model in Park was the Dresden Zwinger made of Elbe sandstone (like the original), which is worth around 600,000 euros.
The "4D cinema" was one of the highlights of the park.
Subject areas
In the Mini Mundus Bodensee there were the following topics:
- Orient and desert : Here was a desert landscape with models, including the Great Pyramid of Cheops , the Castel del Monte , the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem and the Western Wall .
- Bodensee : Here one found structures around the Bodensee. These included the port entrance of Lindau , buildings from the old town of Ravensburg, the Golden Roof Innsbruck, the Zeppelin NT , the Einsiedeln monastery and various sets of the Bregenz Festival .
- The course of the river : This subject area showed a functioning model of the Niederfinow ship lift and the Tower Bridge with a span of 8 m. Also a model of Niagara Falls , which is 40 m wide (1:25 scale).
- East Asia : Various world heritage sites, for example Angkor Wat , the Borobodur Temple and the Potala Palace in Tibet.
- Around the world : This themed area included other miniature buildings from around the world that were worth seeing, such as St. Basil's Cathedral , the Dresden Zwinger , the Brandenburg Gate , the Vienna Ferris wheel and the Fisherman's Bastion in Budapest.
- Ocean : Against the background of the model of Niagara Falls, there was an ocean of almost 3000 m². There were many model ships on it, such as the sinking Titanic and the Gorch Fock . There are also models of Mont-Saint-Michel , Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty .
- Labyrinths : There were several mazes , replicated on a reduced scale , such as the famous historical labyrinth of Villa Pisani in Stra.
- Multimedia room : In the 4-D cinema, a film about the “impossible” world - illusion views - by the Dutch artist MC Escher was shown. In the 4D film, some of his works of art are made accessible to the viewer.
- Modern architecture / modern life : Here were models of the Ferris wheel in Vienna, a functional bucket wheel excavator as well as models of the Center Pompidou in Paris, the Hundertwasser Church in Bärnbach and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Web links
- Recommended articles on Minimundus yelp.at, article by: Qype User esposa…, Mannheim, August 27, 2008, accessed March 17, 2017. - Lists numerous miniatures.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Minimundus-Bodensee . In: Bodensee Ferienzeitung. Edition 2/2009. Südkurier GmbH Medienhaus, Konstanz 2009, p. 11.
- ↑ a b Mini Mundus Bodensee closes - at least for 2013 , March 14, 2013, Schwäbische Zeitung
- ↑ Inconsistency in the number of visitors brings "Aus" for Miniature Park , March 13, 2013, Schwäbische Zeitung