Steiger-60-metres Ferris Wheel
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Steiger-60-metres Ferris Wheel is the largest transportable ferris wheel in the world.
It possesses a diameter of 60 meters and a weight of 450 tons. To transport it, 22 railway cars are necessary. Of in Bad Oeynhausen resident place-inherit-rubbed riser sketched and claimant ferris wheel is since 1980 on numerous people celebrations a main attraction.
This ferris wheel was built by the company Knocks in Bremen. The required static computations for the equipment were performed by Dr. Cassens and Jaeschke. Although for the transport of this wheel a whole railway train is necessary, this ferris wheel was disassembled after the Cannstatter Wasen in Stuttgart in only 4 days and set up on Freimarkt Bremen again, which represents a considerable achievement of transportation logistics.