Erlebnispark Tripsdrill
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The Tripsdrill theme park is an amusement park in the hamlet Treffentrill at Cleebronn in Baden -Württemberg. Attached is a wildlife park. Covering an area of 77 hectares and around 100 guests, zoological facilities and museums to see. Tripsdrill is the oldest theme park in Germany and committed suicide in 2009 its 80th anniversary. The park has around 150 employees and annually receives about 660,000 visitors.
The park has consistently the subject of Swabia there is anno 1880. Example, bathtubs, slippers and Gugelhupfe than cars.
History
On June 30, opened in 1929, Eugen Fischer, the owner of a restaurant in the hamlet Treffentrill at Cleebronn, a Altweibermühle which originally only consisted of a small mill tower and a slide. The names Treffentrill and Tripsdrill should go back to the Roman centurion Trepho who have called the place Trephonis Truilla. At least a correspondingly labeled stone was found in the vicinity. Location is usual today, the term " the Trulla " for the park. After the Second World War, his father did not survive, Kurt Fischer carried on the business of the popular tourist destination. The first mill burned down in 1946 after a lightning strike down. In 1950 the present Altweibermühle was inaugurated, the lecture was August Laemmle.
The zoo next to the Altweibermühle was opened with 300 animals in 1957. In 1960, the first ride attraction added in the form of pedal -powered locomotives. The local museum was Trillarium 1962. Amusement park grew gradually over the hamlet beyond. Opposite the Altweibermühle the Altmännermühle was opened in 1970.
The Wild Tripsdrill was opened in 1972 and 1976 expanded by a petting zoo, the portfolio grew by more than 1000 animals. The Museum of Viticulture Vinarium was opened and houses since become one of the largest collections of wooden spindle presses in Germany.
Since 1986, when the amusement park was expanded to 45 acres, the two parks are connected by a train on wheels ( Stromberg- Express). 1995 an additional 15 acres were added to the park. Emanuel Mongon, a world-renowned theme park planners, began his work for Tripsdrill.
Kurt Fischer handed over the management to his sons in 1996, Helmut, and Roland Dieter Fischer. The park has since performed as a GmbH & Co. KG. In the same year the washtub rafting was opened.
Opened in 1998, the roller coaster G'sengte sow. Dirk Auer, an extreme - liner, was the first person ever with roller skates on the web. The castle complex rough blade with flume was inaugurated in 2000. 2001 repeated Auer for betting that ..? Broadcast the inliner ride on the roller coaster with a beer glass in his hand. Also in 2001, the wildlife park was expanded to 17 hectares. 2002 was the first thunder box, a kind of free-fall tower, built. Throughout the year 2004 was celebrated as the anniversary year of the 75th anniversary with many special events. A second wooden beam and the spin were opened in 2004. 2005 with two years' delay opened the soapbox derby and thus completed the new area of the Mills. The village street with three houses and the Maypole on the village square are the innovations of the year 2006.
Since 2010, the topic sawmill is done in the park. The roller coaster is mammoth in this subject Reich, who Tripsdrill has cost around € 20 million, the main feature. Mammoth is almost 30 m high, up to 90 km / h and was opened on 28 April 2008. It was built by the company Ing - timber Cordes ( timber ), Gerstlauer Amusement Rides ( technology and trains) and Stengel (calculations). This makes it the first wooden roller coaster made entirely of German production.
In the 2013 season, two other attractions were opened. It is a composed of seven half-timbered houses Gaudi district, in the variety of play opportunities for children and young people are located. In addition, a catapult rollercoaster for new major attraction of the Parks.Die Karacho -Bahn the German manufacturer Gerstlauer is with LSM launch and four inversions, opened in July 2013.
Attractions ( selection)
Former attractions
Trivia
The Tatort episode "The Scream" was filmed in the fall of 2009 at the amusement park Tripsdrill. Among other things, the washtub rafting and the coaster mammoth can be seen, but also additional attractions were built. In the Tatort episode Tripsdrill " Prisca Park" means and is based according to act in Ludwigshafen.
On 23 May 2010, the theme park Tripsdrill received an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for having had been built there the longest socks leash in the world. With 2324.08 meters in length and 27 868 single socks, Tripsdrill could surpass the previous record ( 24,725 socks at 2013.75 meters ). The socks were from park visitors who were called for donations and it got a little attention. About the Whitsun socks leash was exhibited in the park.