Kalkar wonderland

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Kalkar wonderland
WunderlandKalkar.jpg
place Kalkar
opening 1995
Visitors 280,000 (2014)
surface 19 ha
Website https://www.wunderlandkalkar.eu/de
Wunderland Kalkar (Germany)
Kalkar wonderland
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

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