Heide Park

Infobox Amusement park
name = Heide-Park


caption =
location = Soltau, Lower Saxony
location2 = Germany
location3 = flagicon|Germany
season = March-November
opening_date = 19 August 1978
area = ~ 850,000 m2
rides = 40
coasters = 6
water_rides = 3
owner = Merlin Entertainments
homepage = [http://www.heide-park.de]

Heide-Park is a theme park in Soltau, Lower Saxony. With an overall area of over 850,000 m², it is one of the biggest German Amusement Parks and the biggest in Northern Germany.The theme park is part of the British-based Merlin Entertainments. The current manager of the park is Hannes W. Mairinger.

History

The area on which Heide-Park was built originally did not belong to the game reserve Heidenhof. In 1978 Hans-Jürgen Tiemann gave away the area under the condition that who ever took it would keep the Heidenhof-Kapelle (Year of Construction: 1349) and save the animals living in the park. At its opening on 19 August 1978 about 200,000 people visited and enjoyed the (then) six rides. You can get into Heide park with the Merlin Annual pass.

Attractions

Heide Park currently has about 40 rides which are mainly aimed at families but its thrill rides are also very popular.One of the main attractions is Colossos, a wooden roller coaster, which until the opening of Balder, on 4 December 2003 in the Swedish amusement park Liseberg, was the steepest wooden roller coaster in the world. The latest attraction is the "Launched roller coaster" "Desert Race". It is Germany's first and for now only "launched" roller coaster and accelerates from 0-100kph (0-61mph) un just 2.4 seconds and reaches a maximum of 5G positive during the ride.As of June 2009 it will be beaten by the also in Germany located world's fastest accelerating roller coaster Ring°Racer with 0-216.9kph in 2.5 seconds.

Roller coasters

hows

Seven shows are available each day at Heide Park, these are;

* Dolphin Show
* Parrot Show
* Seal Show
* Pirate Show
* Hallo Spencer Show
* Bird Theatre
* Comic Theatre

External links

* [http://www.heide-park.de Official Flash-Website of the Heide-Park]
* [http://www.holidaycamp.de Heide-Park Holiday-Camp]
* [http://www.heide-park-world.de Heide-Park-world - Info, Photos, Forum, Gallery etc.]