Heide Park

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Heide-Park
Location	Soltau, Lower Saxony, Germany,
Website	[1]
Owner	Merlin Entertainments
Opened	19 August 1978
Operating season	March-November
Area	~ 850,000 m2
Rides	40 total 6 roller coasters 3 water rides

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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.

Inverted roller coaster Limit at Heide Park

1 History
2 Attractions
3 External links

[edit] 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.

[edit] Attractions

Roller coaster Colossos with the "Statue of Liberty"

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 Gyro-Drop-Tower "Scream". With its total height of 103 meters and a 71 meter drop it is the world's largest of its kind. The ride speeds up to about 98 km/h.

Panoramic view of Colossos

[edit] Roller coasters

Name	Type	Max. Height	Length	Max. Speed	Producer
Big Loop	Steel roller coaster	30 m	706 m	63 km/h	Vekoma
Colossos	Wooden roller coaster	60 m	1344 m	120 km/h	Intamin
Desert Race	Launched Coaster	19 m	650 m	100 km/h	Intamin
Grottenblitz	Powered roller coaster	6 m	370 m	45 km/h	Mack
Limit	Vekoma SLC	33,3 m	689 m	80 km/h	Vekoma
Schweizer Bobbahn	Bobsled roller coaster	27 m	990 m	53 km/h	Mack

[edit] Water rides

Name	Type	Max. Height	Ride length	Producer
Mountain Rafting	Rapid River	-	600 m	Intamin
Wildwasserbahn I	Log flume	-	600 m	Mack
Wildwasserbahn II	Log flume	23 m	575 m	Anton Schwarzkopf

Part of the roller coaster Big Loop

[edit] Other attractions

Name	Type	Max. Height	Producer
Bounty	Pirate Ship	15 m	Intamin
Break Dance	Break Dance	-	HUSS Maschinenfabrik
Condor	Spinning tower ride	36 m	Huss
Dampfkarussell	Carousel	-	Dentzel
Enterprise	Enterprise	20 m	Huss
Flipper	Tilted spinning ride	13,5 m	Huss
Floßfahrt	Raft ride	-	Mack
Heide-Park Express	Miniature Train	-	Chance Rides Manufacturing
Hully Gully	Tilted spinning ride	4 m	Mack
Kaffeetassen	Tea Cups	-	Mack
Kanalfahrt	Slow boat ride	-	Mack
Kinderlok Old'99	Children train ride	-	Mack
Magic	fast spinning ride	9 m	Huss
Mississipidampfer	Ship	-	Eigenbau
Monorail	Monorail	6 m	Intamin
Oldtimer	Steerable oldtimer track	-	Mack
Panorama	Panorama Tower	75 m	Intamin
Panormabahn	Train	4 m	Mack
Rainbow	Swinging platform	26,5 m	Huss
Riesenkrake	Octopus spinning ride	4 m	Schwarzkopf
Round Up	Standup spinning ride	11 m	Hrubetz
Santa Maria	Pirate Ship	13,5 m	Zamperla
Scream	Gyro-Drop Tower	103 m	Intamin
Topspin	Top Spin	19 m	Huss
Wichtelhausen	Children animal trains	-	Mack