Gps Coordinates / 53.5436254,9.9888752
Small World Miniatur Wunderland Germany Google Map Locations
Hamburg, Germany
The world's largest model railroad system has become one of the tourist highlights of Hamburg.
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Gps coordinates / 53.5436414,9.9888552 / 53.5436396,9.9887072 / 53.543618,9.9886196
Miniatur Wunderland (German for miniature wonderland) is a model railway and miniature airport attraction in Hamburg, Germany, the largest of its kind in the world. The railway is located in the historic Speicherstadt district of the city.
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Gps coordinates / 53.5436242,9.9886248 / 53.5436043,9.9886093 / 53.5436529,9.9886593
In October 2016 the railway consisted of 15,715 m (51,558 ft) of track in H0 scale, divided into nine sections: Harz, the fictitious city of Knuffingen, the Alps and Austria, Hamburg, America, Scandinavia, Switzerland, a replica of the Hamburg Airport and Italy. Of the 7,000 m2 (75,347 sq ft) of floorspace, the model takes 1,499 m2 (16,135 sq ft).
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Gps coordinates / 53.5437538,9.9887229 / 53.5437437,9.9886914 / 53.5437174,9.9886014
The exhibit includes 1,300 trains made up of over 10,000 carriages, over 100,000 moving vehicles, ca. 500,000 lights, 130,000 trees, and 400,000 human figurines. Planning is also in progress for the construction of sections for Central America and the Caribbean, Asia, England, Africa and The Netherlands.
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Gps coordinates / 53.5437399,9.9885963
In the summer of 2000, Frederik Braun, one of the two founders of Miniatur Wunderland, was on vacation in Zurich. There, in a model train store, he came up with the idea for the world's largest model railroad. Back in Hamburg, he searched for email addresses from the Internet and started a survey on the popularity of real and fictional sights of the city. In the process, the Miniatur Wunderland, which did not yet exist, was ranked 3 by male respondents.
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Gps coordinates / 53.543613,9.9886156 / 53.5437651,9.9891699 / 53.5437673,9.9892034
According to the brothers Gerrit and Frederik Braun, the idea for the Miniatur Wunderland, including the financing plan, fit on just two pages. The financial backer was the Hamburger Sparkasse.
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After construction began in December 2000, the first three sections (Knuffingen, Central Germany and Austria) went into operation on August 16, 2001. Since then, new sections have been added. With the completion of the Hamburg, German Coast section in November 2002, Wunderland became the largest model railroad in Europe. Expansions in December 2003 with the theme USA and July 2005 with Scandinavia followed. On September 10, 2015, Gerrit and Frederik Braun placed the missing piece of track between the Switzerland section and a new Italy section. In doing so, they extended the track length from 13,000 to 15,400 meters. This was recorded by a Guinness judge, who then presented the certificate for the newly established world record. The 190 square meter section Bella Italia was opened on 28. September 2016 after four years of construction with 180,000 working hours and costs of around four million euros. With the construction section Monaco / Provence started in August 2019, another 315 meters will be added. The total length of currently 15,715 m thus corresponds to 1,367.21 km in real length, so this is now also the largest model railway layout in the world across all scales.
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Gps coordinates / 53.5437226,9.9895092 / 53.5436785,9.989467 / 53.5436909,9.9894248
Special features include a simulated daily routine where twilight, night and day repeat every 15 minutes. This includes an automatic lighting control system that switches more than 300,000 lights to match the time of day.
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The 120-square-meter fantasy town of Knuffingen, with a population of about 6,000, is equipped with more than 100 moving model cars, including numerous fire engines, which are used to simulate a firefighting operation in Knuffingen every 15 minutes on average. Traffic simulation is made possible by a modified car system that is also used in the USA, Scandinavia and Knuffingen Airport sections. In the America section, even an Interstate Highway is equipped with a dynamic Traffic Control System, which controls traffic through four different speed limits as well as permanent light signs and a variable text display.
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The layout is considered to be rich in detail, examples include a changing scoreboard in the Volkspark Stadium or a crashed cheese wheel truck. There is also a Jet gas station there, displaying the real current gasoline prices of its prototype in Hamburg's Amsinck street.
Visitors can control operations on the system through ca. 200 pushbuttons. These button actions are a highlight for many visitors. For example, a mine train starts, wind turbines turn, the next goal falls in the football stadium, a space shuttle takes off, a helicopter takes off or Pinocchio's Nose begins to grow. A push button even allows visitors to watch the simulated production of a small bar of chocolate in a factory and taste the real product for themselves.
Certain tours also include a behind-the-scenes look at detailed figures that cannot be seen from the normal public area.
