Indoor ski slope

An indoor ski slope is a closed hall with a slope whose bottom is covered with artificial snow. In an indoor ski slope you can ride all year round ski and snowboard.

With the snow palace in Vienna, the first indoor ski slope in the world was opened on November 26, 1927 by the Mayor Karl Seitz. It was located in the former North Western Railway Station. The slope in the 3000 -square-foot ski area went down a wooden ramp. A ski jump made ​​jump distances up to 20 meters possible. The skiers had to walk the "mountain" to go up, because there was no climbing aid. However sledge could be hauled up with an electrically operated system. The artificial snow was produced by the English chemist Ayscoughs of soda.

In Germany, there are indoor ski slopes in Neuss, Bottrop, Senftenberg, Wittenburg and Bispingen. In Oberhof 2009 was the Skisporthalle Oberhof than 1.8 km long circuit for Langslaufski. In Germany's neighboring countries, especially in the Netherlands, there are also several indoor ski slopes. Even in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai ( Ski Dubai), Abu Dhabi and Madrid, in the Xanadu shopping center in the hall Madrid Snow Zone can be driven now under roof ski. In the Emirate of Ras al -Khaimah is currently a 2 km downhill under roof in the planning. In China, there are indoor ski slopes in Shanghai and Beijing. In addition, 200 km south of Moscow, a modern indoor ski along the lines of Bispingen planned in the Russian Ryazan, but that is to be twice as large. That would be the largest indoor ski slope in the world.

The longest indoor ski slope in the world at 640 meters is the alpine center in Bottrop, for the long run, the 1.9 km long hall in Oberhof. The largest area indoor ski slope in Europe, with 35,000 m² slope area is located in Landgraaf in the Netherlands. In the Snow Funpark Wittenburg first found the International German Championships in the halfpipe on 3 October 2007 in a hall instead. The indoor ski slope Neuss can present with 28 % slope a red slope. It was Germany's first indoor ski resort and was opened on 3rd January 2001.

Indoor Ski

An incomplete list of active indoor ski slopes in the world:

Flexible flyer Oberhof, Germany Australia Melbourne Comines, Nord Peer, Belgium Shenzhen France Lorraine (region) The Hague Rucphen Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude Zoetermeer Westerhoven New Zealand Auckland Rzyki Wadowice Belgrade Bucheon Castleford Yorkshire Milton Keynes Tamworth, Staffordshire Hemel Hempstead Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast
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