Wodan – Timburcoaster
Wodan - Timburcoaster (proper spelling: WODAN - Timburcoaster ) is a wooden roller coaster at Europa-Park in Rust, Baden-Württemberg. The railway was opened to the press conference on 28 March 2012 and is located in the Icelandic theme of the park. She is the first wooden roller coaster at Europa-Park. Designed and built by Great Coasters International, she was.
The roller coaster is about 1050 m long and is about 100 km / h. Wodan - Timburcoaster has three trains, each with twelve cars. In each of the cars two people can sit. The minimum size for passengers is 120 cm.
Name
The roller coaster was named after the Germanic name of the Norse god Odin. The term Timburcoaster consists of the Icelandic word Timbur for wood and the English word coaster, short form of rollercoaster for rollercoaster together and thus translates wooden roller coaster.
Theming Waiting area
For the design of the waiting area of the wooden roller coaster in the Norse mythology was chosen.
In addition to the normal waiting area is possible in the single - driver Snake ( "Single Rider" ) to make.
The queue leads by five different areas of Norse mythology. First you get to Yggdrasil, the World Tree, which embodies the entire cosmos. On the way to get to Schwarzalben home, the underground dwarf kingdom. This section is like a mine designed to be mined in the gold and precious stones. The nearest station to the realm of the goddess Hel. Hel is half dead and half alive. As a sign of the hourglass is in her right hand. The trail continues through the Midgardschlangentor to Niflheim, an icy world in the north, which is inhabited by frost and frost giants. If one has left this place behind, you reach the exact contrast to Niflheim, Muspellsheim. This is around the fire kingdom to the south, inhabited by fire giants and ruled by their leader Surt. Next, one encounters Nidhoggr, a snake-like dragon that lives at the World Tree Yggdrasil and the dead torments. In the last scene of the giant Mimir guarded the source of Mimir, which lies at the foot of Yggdrasil. To gain precognitive powers, Odin gave an eye as a pledge to drink from the fountain of Mimir allowed.
Then the rainbow bridge Bifrost of Midgard leads up to Asgard, where the Valhalla is located. The Walhalla is a resting place for the battle casualties. This is the boarding station for Wodan - Timburcoaster.
Wodan and Whale Adventures
Construction
On the construction of up to 26 carpenters were involved, as were nine months of construction planned.
The railway was built in the Icelandic subject area on an area of 1.6 hectares. For the construction of the wooden roller coaster about 1,000 cubic meters of pine wood were used, which was assembled on site. In the complete design are a total of 21,000 beams, which are held together by about 1.6 million nails.