Ferris wheel
The ferris wheel is a wheel-shaped ride at folk festivals that lifts passengers around its circumference to a position with a good view. As a stationary attraction, Ferris wheels are landmarks of various cities.
history
The oldest documented idea of the Ferris wheel comes from Bulgaria . The English traveler Peter Mundy reports on this . On May 16, 1620, in the city of Philippopolis (today's city of Plovdiv ), he saw some children who had attached small seats to the circumference of a large wheel in order to amuse themselves by turning it. Similar journeys were seen in England later in the 17th century.
The first modern wheel in the world was created by George Washington Gale Ferris , an engineer for railway engineering and bridge in Pittsburgh , at the World's Fair in Chicago built 1,893th The organizers were looking for something original, daring and unique ("original, daring and unique") that would put the Eiffel Tower erected in Paris for the 1889 World Exhibition in the shade. Ferris' proposal was initially rejected as unrealistic. However, like no other, his idea was better suited to depicting the art of engineering, economic success and the power of the USA , so that he was ultimately able to convince the jury.
The Ferris Wheel had a height of 80.5 meters (264 feet), a wheel diameter of 76.2 meters (250 feet) and 36 gondolas, each with space for 60 people. When planning it proved difficult to construct the wheel so that it was light enough to be held by the supporting structure. Ferris finally oriented himself on the spoke principle of high wheels and designed a wheel whose edge is connected to the hub with 6 cm thick steel spokes. During construction, it was found that with this type of construction, the wheel only becomes stable when it is closed. For the upper part, he therefore had to build a scaffolding around the ferris wheel in order to be able to insert supporting beams.
The Ferris wheel was opened on June 21, 1893 seven weeks late and has become a special attraction at the World's Fair. In the period that followed, ferris wheels were also built in other cities, setting new height records. The name "Ferris wheel" developed into the general term for Ferris wheels.
To Chicago Walter B. Basset built by the established for this company "Earl's Court Great Wheel Company Limited" 1894/1895 in London, the Great Wheel , the chain drive once took care of a 7-hour stoppage, and in 1896 one in Blackpool , also in England, that existed until 1928, before the Wiener Riesenrad was built in 1897.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ferris wheels had lost their allure of innovation. At that time, many were demolished due to a lack of visitors. The Ferris Wheel was dismantled after the exhibition in mid-1894 and rebuilt at the 1904 World Exhibition in St. Louis. In 1906 the bike was finally broken off and scrapped. In its place is a replica today.
Stationary Ferris wheels only gained new popularity in 1999 with the construction of the London Eye to mark the upcoming millennium celebrations . At 135 m, the largest Ferris wheel in the world at the time, represented technical progress in many ways. While the gondolas of older Ferris wheels were suspended in the wheel so that the wheel obstructed the view in the highest position, the gondolas were here for the first time attached in two rings outside the wheel. The wheel is attached to the hub with steel cables . It rotates slowly and smoothly and does not stop for boarding.
The London Eye was replaced as the tallest Ferris wheel in the world by the 160 m high star of Nanchang . As an expression of economic power, it should shine with thousands of lights at night and also be visible from afar during the day, which ruled out such a filigree construction as that of the London Eye . As with transportable Ferris wheels, the wheel was therefore built as a solid steel structure that offers space for up to 7000 lamps. Since their greater weight puts a strain on the supporting structure and there is a risk of offering too much surface to the wind, this type of construction is unusual for Ferris wheels of this size.
The Singapore Flyer became the largest Ferris wheel in the world when it opened in 2008. The Ferris wheel is 165 m high and the technology is similar to the London Eye .
The Singapore Flyer was replaced in April 2014 by The High Roller in Las Vegas, which cost 140 million euros and measures 168 m . The gondolas are also attached to the outside of this Ferris wheel.
principle
Ferris wheels are constructions made of steel, which usually consist of four inclined supports that converge on a non-driven wheel hub. For smaller Ferris wheels, constructions with a single support, such as in the Bohemian Prater, were also implemented.
drive
Modern Ferris wheels are driven by electric motors, which are arranged to the right and left of the entry area and act with friction wheels on the outer side of the wheel.
With older Ferris wheels, rope loops (initially anchor chains) are led around the outside of the Ferris wheel construction and tensioned by pulling weights. Motors (initially steam engines ) drive the rope loops, which then transmit the rotary motion to the ferris wheel.
Muscle-powered Ferris wheels can still be found today, especially in developing countries - partly due to a lack of electricity.
Stationary ferris wheels
With stationary Ferris wheels, the earth is excavated and the foundations are concreted into the ground. In order to minimize the weight of the wheel, the outer ring of particularly large Ferris wheels is connected to the hub with steel cables. Since a wheel constructed in this way only becomes stable when closed, construction is difficult. With the Ferris Wheel , a scaffold was built for the upper part of the wheel, the wheel of the London Eye was mounted lying on floating platforms in the Thames and then erected with a crane. The Singapore Flyer was first stabilized with rigid spokes, which were removed again after the wheel was closed. With this technique heights of over 200 meters are possible.
Transportable ferris wheels
In transportable Ferris wheels, the outer ring is connected to the hub with massive spokes. This construction makes it possible to expand the wheel at the lower end by a wheel section, then turn it further and repeat the process until the wheel is completely built up.
With foundation base
With this type, a foundation base is first erected and weighted down with ballast weights made of concrete or with water tanks. The ferris wheel is built on this sole. Total heights of up to sixty meters are possible. It takes three to four days to set up. A large truck crane is imperative.
On transport trailers
The three transport trailers are first set up next to each other and firmly connected to one another. The four supports can be raised without outside help using hydraulics. The hub is put on by a crane. It can be set up in one to two days. Total heights of up to forty meters can be achieved. A version with four transport trailers (each weighing 55 tons) can reach a height of fifty meters.
Existing ferris wheels
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A well-known Ferris wheel is the Wiener Riesenrad in the Vienna Prater . It was built in 1897 for the 50th anniversary of the throne of Emperor Franz Josef I. The total height is 64.75 m with a wheel diameter of 60.96 m. The steel construction has a weight of 430 t, whereby the wheel weighs 245 t. The speed of rotation is rather low at 2.7 km / h, it would be possible for individuals to get in and out during the rotation process. In 1916 a demolition permit was issued, but due to lack of funds, it was not used. The Ferris wheel was destroyed by fire in 1944 and rebuilt from 1945 onwards, reducing the number of wagons from 30 to 15. It was put back into operation in 1947. In 1961, Karl Lamac bought the Ferris wheel.
In Berlin there is a giant wheel measuring 45 meters in diameter in the Spreepark , which has been out of order since 2002.
The Ferris wheel with the highest location in Europe can also be found in Germany. It is located in the Traumland amusement park on the Bear Cave .
The London Eye is located directly on the River Thames in London and is currently the largest Ferris wheel in Europe at 135 meters (443 feet). It is visited by 3.5 million visitors annually.
The Roue de Paris is actually a portable ferris wheel. It was built for the Millennium celebrations in Paris and then operated there for three years. It is a 56 meter high wheel that does not require a permanent foundation, as 40,000 liters of water serve as ballast. After dismantling in Paris, it was operated in Birmingham from November 2003 to February 2004. In December 2004, the Roue de Paris spun at the Manchester Christmas market . At the beginning of 2005 the bike was bought by World Tourist Attractions Ltd. sold to Magic Fair Attractions BV / Starlex Entertainment BV, Eindhoven. After a brief use at the World Town Fair in Sittard -Geleen, it was operated on Museum Island in Amsterdam in the summer of 2005 . Since January 2006 it is on the Night Bazaar in Bangkok .
The third largest ferris wheel in the world, the Star of Nanchang , was inaugurated on January 4, 2006 in Nanchang , China . At a height of 160 meters and a diameter of 153 meters, a full turn takes half an hour.
In Japan there are four Ferris wheels with heights over 100 m. The Tempozan Harbor Village Ferris Wheel opened on July 12, 1997 in Osaka . It has a total height of 112.5 m and a diameter of 100 m. The Palette Town Ferris Wheel was built in Odaiba in 1999 . The height is 115 m, it also has a 100 m wheel. Sky Dream Fukuoka was built in 2002 with a total height of 120 m and a wheel diameter of 112 m. The fourth wheel is the Diamond and Flower Ferris wheel, built in 2005 in Kasai Rinkai Park in eastern Tokyo. It has a height of 117 m and a 111 m wheel.
From its opening on March 1, 2008 to April 1, 2014, the Singapore Flyer in Singapore was the largest Ferris wheel in the world with a height of 165 meters and a diameter of 150 meters. It was built directly on the shores of Marina Bay, equipped with 28 fully air-conditioned cabins that allow a view over the city-state of Singapore and the neighboring island of Sumatra as well as the southern tip of Malaysia . The Ferris wheel will be integrated into a circular, three-storey terminal building that will allow fully air-conditioned access to the cabins from two sides. The construction costs amount to around 84 million euros.
Since it opened on April 1, 2014, the high roller at The LINQ amusement complex in Las Vegas , Nevada, has been the world's largest Ferris wheel. It is 167.6 meters high and has a diameter of 158.5 meters.
A Ferris wheel was set up in the Ukrainian city of Prypiat for the May 1986 celebrations. When the city of Pripyat was evacuated after the Chernobyl disaster , the Ferris wheel was also left standing - unused. The now totally rusted Ferris wheel is still on the former Pripyat fairground and is now often associated with the ghost town of Pripyat and Chernobyl.
In the North Korean city of Sinŭiju , right on the river border with Dandong in China, there has been a Ferris wheel since at least 2008, but it has never been running. It stands as an extension of the Broken Bridge, which has a lookout point at the middle of the river and the state border, and is clearly visible from the Chinese bank and from the Friendship Bridge located a bit upstream. Its base is hidden behind trees, but it can be estimated at 35 m high and was probably built for propaganda purposes.
Transportable
For many years the largest transportable Ferris wheel was the 60-meter Ferris wheel from the Steiger company in Bad Oeynhausen . It is 59.76 m high and weighs 450 t. It was built in 1980 by the company Kocks Bremen , carries 42 gondolas and had its world premiere at the Schützenfest Hannover . Since January 2013, the R80 XL from the Swiss company Bussink has been the largest transportable Ferris wheel in the world with a height of 69.8 m. It was built by the Munich company Maurer Söhne , on whose premises it was put into operation for the first time in January 2013. The actual operator, a customer from Mexico, was not known for the time being. A Ferris wheel with a height of 78 m and a diameter of 74 m, called Umadum (until July 2020 Hi-Sky ), has been in Munich's Werksviertel since April 2019 .
The largest mobile (integrated trailer, short assembly time) in the world has been the "City Star" Ferris wheel from Göbel-Worms since autumn 2019. According to the manufacturer and operator, the height is 70 m. The premiere was celebrated at the Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park London . With 7 mobile Ferris wheels and a total height of approx. 300 m, the Göbel-Worms company is a leader in the field of mobile systems.
In addition to the Ferris wheels already described, there are only six other Ferris wheels in the 50 m class and six Ferris wheels in the 40 m class, including:
| Surname | operator | Construction year | height |
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| Around the world | Cornelius / Wallenhorst | 1997 | 42 m |
| Bellevue | Oscar Bruch Jr. / Düsseldorf | 1994 | 53 m |
| Bussink Design R80 XL | not yet known / Mexico | 2013 | 69.8 m |
| City star | Göbel-Worms / Worms | 2019 | 70 m |
| Europe wheel | Willi Kipp / Bonn | 1992 | 53 m |
| Hi-Sky | 2019 | 78 m | |
| Sky Lounge Wheel | Oscar Bruch Jr. / Düsseldorf | 2000 | 56.70 m |
| Jupiter | Barth & Kipp / Bonn | 1993 | 43 m |
| Roue Parisienne | Burghard / Kleuser Dortmund | 1996 | 42 m |
| Oktoberfest ferris wheel | Heinrich Willenborg GmbH / Munich | 1979 | 50 m |
| Ferris wheel | Steiger / Bad Oeynhausen | 1980 | 59.76 m |
| Ferris wheel Hanover | Wilhelm & Sons / Hanover | 1987 | 43 m |
| Wheel of Vision | Oscar Bruch Jr. / Düsseldorf | 2003 | 53 m |
| Willenborg Ferris Wheel 32 | Heinrich Willenborg GmbH / Munich | 1990 | 42 m |
| Willenborg Ferris Wheel 36 | Heinrich Willenborg GmbH / Munich | 1997 | 50 m |
In order to welcome the year 2000 impressively, the Frankfurt local broadcaster Funk und Fernsehen Hessen (FFH) had the idea of recreating the number 2000 using two truck-mounted cranes and three Ferris wheels. From December 30, 1999 to January 9, 2000, the Ferris wheels turned right on the banks of the Main in front of the Frankfurt skyline . These were the Europa wheel , the Jubilee wheel from the Thomas Müller company from Chemnitz and the Vienna Ferris wheel from the Kalbfleisch family from Butzbach . At 38 and 44 meters respectively, the three Ferris wheels are not among the largest, but for the first time three Ferris wheels were operated in parallel.
Planned and under construction Ferris wheels
In Berlin , the Great Berlin Wheel with a height of around 175 meters was planned until 2010 . The Great Berlin Wheel should be financed through the closed fund "Global VIEW - Great Wheel Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG" and is at risk according to the German Consumer Protection Association. At the beginning of April 2010, criminal charges were filed against those responsible for the fund on suspicion of misappropriating investor funds. Some of the money deposited is said to have been diverted to a company in the Caribbean . The public prosecutor's office has started investigations against the managing directors of the project company. At the end of 2010 the "Global VIEW" fund was dissolved. Of the € 208.5 million paid in, only € 20 million was left. The project will no longer be operated.
There are currently further plans to build such a Ferris wheel similar to the Singapore Flyer and the London Eye for Beijing and Qingdao in China, for DubaiLand in Dubai and for Orlando in the USA . The Ferris wheels are planned by the same initiator as the Singapore Flyer. Completion was targeted for 2010. So far, none of these projects have been realized, and the operating company, a closed-end fund called Global View , has gone bankrupt.
The observation wheel in Orlando is to be built at the intersection of the most important traffic axes in Orlando in the immediate vicinity of the Convention Center, the Universal Studios theme park, the Sea World Aquarium and Walt Disney World. The early planning phase began in early 2011. With the complete completion of the 425 ft (130 m ) high Ferris wheel was initially expected for summer 2014, but after the start of construction in early 2013 the date was postponed to November 2014 [obsolete] .
In Moscow , which for a long time was home to the largest Ferris wheel in Europe at over seventy meters, there are also vague plans to build a Ferris wheel about two hundred meters in size.
In New York City Parliament in November 2013 gave the green light for a Ferris wheel - then the world's largest - with a height of 190 m. The New York Wheel could be built in Staten Island in two years. As of November 2013, Dubai is planning a 20 m larger one to be completed by 2016. On October 23, 2018, after increases in planned costs and legal disputes among potential investors, the planners announced the withdrawal from the project in New York.
List of the largest ferris wheels in the world
As with the Ferris Wheel , the expression of economic success and power plays a role in today's race for the largest Ferris wheel in the world. The battle for the largest Ferris wheel is thus similar to that for the tallest skyscraper . Below are the largest Ferris wheels ever built - or planned.
| Surname | diameter | height | Construction year | country | city | Remarks |
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| Nippon Moon | ? | (> 250 m) | ? | Japan | ? | Concept was worked out |
| Great Beijing Wheel | ? | (208 m) | 2010 construction stopped | China | Beijing | based on the London Eye , construction discontinued in 2010 |
| Ain Dubai | (250 m) | 210 m | 2015 start of construction | United Arab Emirates | Dubai (DubaiLand) | Opening summer 2019 The Ferris wheel is expected to attract 3 million visitors annually. The construction of a 185 m high Ferris wheel was stopped before 2009. |
| Great Berlin Wheel | (165 m) | (175 m) | - | Germany | Berlin | Project discontinued in 2009 |
| The high roller | 158 m | 167 m | 2013 | United States | Las Vegas | Start of construction at the end of 2011, opening on March 31, 2014 |
| Singapore Flyer | 150 m | 165 m | 2008 | Singapore | Singapore | |
| The star of Nanchang | 153 m | 160 m | 2006 | China | Nanchang | |
| Skyvue | ? | 152 m | 2013 | United States | Las Vegas | Project discontinued |
| London Eye | 120 m | 135 m | 2000 | United Kingdom | London | currently the largest ferris wheel in Europe |
| The Wheel at ICON Park | 119 m | 122 m | 2015 | United States | Orlando, Florida | |
| Melbourne Star | ? | 120 m | 2008 | Australia | Melbourne | |
| Changshar Ferris Wheel | 98 m | 120 m | 2004 | China | Changsha | |
| Zhengzhou Ferris Wheel | ? | 120 m | 2003 | China | Zhengzhou | |
| Tianjin Eye | ? | 120 m | 2007 | China | Tianjin | Ferris wheel is built over a bridge |
| Sky Dream Fukuoka | 112 m | 120 m | 2002 | Japan | Fukuoka | |
| Diamond and Flower Ferris Wheel | 111 m | 117 m | 2005 | Japan | Tokyo, Kasai Rinkai Park | |
| Star of Taihu Lake | 107 m | 115 m | 2008 | China | Wuxi, Jiangsu | 384 seats (64 × 6) |
| Daikanransha | 100 m | 115 m | 1999 | Japan | Tokyo, Odaiba | |
| Cosmo Clock 21 | 100 m | 113 m | 1999 | Japan | Yokohama | |
| Harbin ferris wheel | ? | 110 m | 2003 | China | Harbin | |
| Tempozan Harbor Village Ferris Wheel | ? | 112 m | 1997 | Japan | Osaka | |
| HEP 5 | ? | 106 m | 1998 | Japan | Osaka | |
| Space Eye | ? | 100 m | ? | Japan | Kita Kyushu | |
| Great wheel | 82.3 m | 94 m | 1895 | United Kingdom | London | On the occasion of the Empire of India Exhibition |
| Technocosmos | ? | 85 m | 1985 | Japan | Tsukuba | Erected on the occasion of Expo '85, moved to Osaka (Expoland) in 1986 and renamed Technostar , demolished in 2009 |
| Lazarevskoe Ferris Wheel | 80 m | 83 m | 2002 | Russia | Lazarevskoe | |
| Parisian ferris wheel | 100 m | ? | 1900 | France | Paris | Erected in 1900 for the World Exhibition in Paris, demolished in 1937 |
| Blackpool Ferris Wheel | ? | 67 m | 1896 | United Kingdom | Blackpool | Initiated by the operating company of the Winter Gardens and demolished in 1926. |
List of transportable Ferris wheels in Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland
| Surname | Showman / place | Manufacturer | height | Number of gondolas | Number of spokes | Place / year of the premiere | image | Remarks | |
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| Old love | Tailor (Kaiserslautern) | Schwarzkopf (D) | 20 m | 16 | 16 | ? / 1973 |
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| Around The World | Cornelius / Wallenhorst | Mondial (NL) | 42 m | 36 | 18th | Brockum / 1997 | |||
| Bellevue | Oscar Bruch Jr. / Düsseldorf | Nauta-Bussink (NL) | 53 m | 42 | 21st | Freiburg / 1994 |
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| Caesar's Wheel | Landwermann-Henschel / Asendorf | Mondial (NL) | 32 m | 26th | 26th |
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| City Star | Göbel / Worms | Mondial (NL) | 70 m | 48 | 24 | London Winter Wonderland / 2019 | Largest mobile ferris wheel in the world, air-conditioned and heated gondolas | ||
| Colossus | Göbel / Worms | Mondial (NL) | 32 m | 26th | 26th |
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| Europe wheel | Kipp, W. / Bonn | Nauta-Bussink (NL) | 53 m | 42 | 42 | Aachen / 1992 |
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| Europe wheel | Sascha Hanstein | Nauta-Bussink (NL) | 32 m | 24 | 24 |
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| Europe wheel | Schieck | Nauta-Bussink (NL) | 32 m | 24 | 24 | ||||
| Sky Lounge Wheel | Oscar Bruch Jr. / Düsseldorf | Gerstlauer (D) | 56.70 m | 40 | 20th | World Exhibition Hannover / 2000 |
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| Grand Soleil | Göbel / Worms | Mondial (NL) | 42 m | 36 | 18th | Mainz / 2017 |
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| Golden wheel | Jost / Worms | Nauta-Bussink (NL) | 32 m | 24 | 24 | 1990 |
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| Hanse wheel | Katrin Geisler, Bentwisch | Ride Technic (CZ) | 32 m | 24 | 24 | 2017 | |||
| Jupiter | Barth & Kipp / Bonn | Nauta-Bussink (NL) | 43 m | 36 | 36 | 1993 |
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| jewel | Göbel / Worms | Nauta-Bussink (NL) | 38 m | 30th | 30th | 1998 | |||
| Liberty Wheel | Robert Gormanns / Rostock | Mondial (NL) | 32 m | 26th | 26th |
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| Mon Amour | Wolters-Domke / Berlin | Mondial (NL) | 42 m | 32 | 16 | 1990 | |||
| Movie star | Landwermann-Henschel / Asendorf | Mondial (NL) | 32 m | 26th | 26th | Pinneberg / 2005 |
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| Oktoberfest ferris wheel | Heinrich Willenborg GmbH / Munich | Schwarzkopf (D) | 50 m | 40 | 20th | Oktoberfest Munich / 1979 |
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1979 Largest transportable Ferris wheel in the world, 2 special gondolas for wheelchair users | |
| Original Berlin ferris wheel | Lorenz / Berlin | Mondial (NL) | 32 m | 26th | 26th | Potsdam / 1993 | |||
| Orion 2 The Frankenrad | Drliczek, Michael / Fürth | Popp (D) | 32 m | 18th | 18th | Nuremberg Spring Festival / 1985 | The Ferris wheel stands on just one mast. | ||
| Orion 3 | Drliczek, Robert / Fürth | Popp (D) | 32 m | 16 | 16 | Deggendorf Spring Festival / 1994 | Assembly without a crane | ||
| Ferris wheel | Robert Gormanns / Rostock | Mondial (NL) | 32 m | 26th | 26th | (F) / 2016 | |||
| Roue Paris | Burghard-Kleuser / Dortmund | Mondial (NL) | 32 m | 26th | 26th | Dortmund / Easter 1989 | |||
| Roue Parisienne | Burghard-Kleuser / Dortmund | Mondial (NL) | 42 m | 36 | 18th |
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| Steiger ferris wheel | Steiger / Hamburg (Bad Oeynhausen) | Kocks (D) | 59.76 m | 42 (10 people each) | 14th | Hanover / 1980; Redesign 2010: LEDs instead of light bulbs |
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| Ferris wheel | Wilhelm & Sons / Hanover | Vekoma (NL) | 43 m | 36 | 36 | 1987 | |||
| Schubert's ferris wheel | Schubert / Dresden | Nauta-Bussink (NL) | 32 m | 24 | 24 | 199? | |||
| Star of Berlin | Lorenz / Berlin | Mondial (NL) | 32 m | 26th | 26th | Warnemünde / 1998 | |||
| Wheel of Vision | Oscar Bruch Jr. / Düsseldorf | Nauta-Bussink (NL) | 53 m | 42 | 21st | Brisbane / 2004 | |||
| Willenborg Ferris Wheel 36 | Heinrich Willenborg GmbH / Munich | Gerstlauer (D) | 50 m | 36 | 18th | Lippstadt Autumn Week / 1997 | 4 special gondolas for wheelchair users | ||
| Willenborg Ferris Wheel 32 | Heinrich Willenborg GmbH / Munich | Mondial (NL) | 42 m | 32 | 16 | Bad Wimpfen valley market / 1990 |
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| White Star 1 | Göbel / Worms | Nauta-Bussink (NL) | 32 m | 24 | 24 | 199? | |||
| White Star 2 | Göbel / Worms | Mondial (NL) | 32 m | 26th | 26th | Göppingen May Day / 2017 | |||
| White Star 3 | Göbel / Worms | Mondial (NL) | 42 m | 36 | 18th | Debrecen / 2018 |
List of stationary Ferris wheels in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
List of all stationary Ferris wheels in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It is noteworthy that even large amusement parks do not necessarily have a Ferris wheel (a gyro tower is usually used as the central panoramic ride ).
Germany
| Surname | place | Year of completion | diameter | image | Remarks |
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| Great Berlin Wheel | Berlin | (Construction stopped) | 175 m |  |
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| Hi-Sky | Munich | 2019 | 74 m | - | |
| Spreepark Ferris Wheel | Berlin | 1989 | 45 m |  |
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| Fort Fun Adventure Land Big Wheel | Bestwig | 1992 | 44 m |  |
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| Ferris wheel Skyline Park | Bad Woerishofen | 2002 | 40 m |  |
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| Ferris wheel Traumland amusement park on the bear cave | Sonnenbühl | 1992 | 35 m |  |
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| Ferris wheel Serengeti Park | Hodenhagen | 33 m | |||
| Ferris wheel Franconian Wonderland | Plech | 2001 | |||
| Schwabenpark ferris wheel | Kaisersbach | ||||
| Erse-Park ferris wheel | Uetze | 1898 | |||
| Big wheel Churpfalzpark | Loifling | ||||
| Ferris wheel Magic Park Verden | Verden | 1960 | 22 m | ||
| Santa Monica Wheel in Movie Park Germany | Bottrop-Kirchhellen | 2007 | 20 m | ||
| Ferris wheel Jaderpark | Jaderberg | 1996 | |||
| Ferris wheel Geiselwind | Hostage wind | 1992 | 14 m | from 1992 to 2007 in the Panoramapark Kirchhundem | |
| Ferris wheel at Hansa Park | Sierksdorf | ||||
| Ferris wheel amusement park Schloss Beck | Bottrop | ||||
| Phantasialand Ferris Wheel | Bruehl | ||||
| Ferris wheel Wunderland Kalkar | Kalkar | 2001 | |||
| Ferris wheel Heide-Park | Soltau | 2009 | 10 m |
Austria
| Surname | place | Year of completion | diameter | image | Remarks |
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| Vienna ferris wheel | Vienna | 1897 | 60.96 m |  |
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| Flower wheel in the Vienna Prater | Vienna | 1993 | 45 m | .jpg) |
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| Ferris wheel in the Bohemian Prater | Vienna | 1988 | 21.5 m |  |
Trivia
A similar experience as a vertical Ferris wheel provides the horizontally rotating cable driven Skywalk Ride on the Canton Tower - television and observation tower in Chinese Guangzhou . The ride at a dizzying height of 455 meters creates an extraordinary thrill .
literature
- Richard G. Weingardt: Circles in the sky. The life and times of George Ferris. American Society of Civil Engineers , Reston 2009, ISBN 978-0-7844-1010-3 . ( Excerpts from Google Books )
Web links
- Invention of the ferris wheel. Totally crazy. In: one day . 5th January 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eyes in the sky. BBC London, December 28, 1999.
- ↑ Bird'-Eye View of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. In: World Digital Library . 1893, Retrieved July 17, 2013 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w Big, Bigger, Biggest: Singapore Flyer - the world's largest Ferris wheel , Documentation by the National Geographic Channel , GB, 2009.
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- ↑ Munich is doing a big thing . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. January 8, 2013.
- ↑ Hi-Sky.de , accessed on August 28, 2019.
- ↑ a b Observation Wheel MCS 7048 - Mondial Rides. Retrieved July 6, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ a b City Star Ferris Wheel - Göbel-Worms. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Turned out? Gloomy prospects for investors in the "Riesenradfonds". At: German Consumer Protection Association , August 20, 2009.
- ↑ Berlin giant wheel a case for the public prosecutor. In: Berliner Morgenpost . April 14, 2010.
- ↑ Sabine Deckwerth, Birgitt Eltzel: Investigations against the project company “Great Berlin Wheel” because of infidelity: The public prosecutor's office is turning the wheel. In: Berliner Zeitung . April 15, 2010 and here .
- ↑ za: Fund for the zoo ferris wheel is dissolved. Investors lost 188 million euros. In: Der Tagesspiegel . November 24, 2010.
- ↑ Bernd Mikosch: Closed funds: Riesenradfonds in imbalance. ( Memento from July 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Financial Times Deutschland . August 11, 2009.
- ^ Sara K. Clarke: What kind of view will the Orlando Eye deliver when it's built? In: Orlando Sentinel. March 22, 2011, accessed August 18, 2013 .
- ↑ Myrtle Beach's SkyWheel to be eclipsed by bigger East Coast options. ( Memento from January 30, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at: MyrtleBeachOnline.com , October 20, 2012.
- ^ Construction to begin soon on Orlando Eye. Giant observation wheel part of major project on International Drive. In: clickorlando.com. January 30, 2013, accessed August 18, 2013 .
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- Jump up plans for the world's largest Ferris wheel in New York. on: orf.at , October 24, 2018, accessed October 24, 2018.
- ↑ GOW Nippon Moon. ( Memento of November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at: unstudio.com
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