Spreepark, abandoned DDR amusement park by rowan.vs on March 19 2020 16:12 hr CE(S)TShortlink to this report: [ https://urbx.be/tgax ]
Finding out the location
very easy
Access
easy
Safety
unsafe
Risk of being seen
very high
General condition of the place
good
Traces of vandalism
very many
Good place for taking pictures?
very good
Did you see other people?
few
Visit date August 10 2019 at 9 hr Visit duration 5 houres +
Spreepark is an abandoned theme park in Germany, which opened in 1969 and was very popular before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The park originally opened as Kulturpark Plänterwald, a project of the communist East German government.
After the reunification of Germany, the park was expanded and renamed Spreepark by new owners. It was gradually transformed into a more Western-style amusement park, with visitors paying a one-off entrance fee instead of paying for each individual ride. New attractions and roller coasters were added, and the park entertained 1.5 million visitors a year.
The park was in debt in the late 1990’s; increasing park entry fees and a lack of car parking lead to reducing visitor numbers and signalled the death knell for Spreepark. The park eventually closed in 2002.
The most iconic ride remaining at the park is a roller coaster that goes through a large tunnel shaped like a blue roaring cat. The Ferris Wheel, rotating slowly by the wind.
Park of joy turns into post-apocalyptic horror landscape by StarkUrbex_ on November 8 2020 21:29 hr CE(S)TShortlink to this report: [ https://urbx.be/xpum ]
Finding out the location
very easy
Access
very hard
Safety
safe
Risk of being seen
very high
General condition of the place
bad
Traces of vandalism
many
Good place for taking pictures?
very good
Did you see other people?
few
Visit date August 12 2015 at 3 hr Visit duration 3 hours
A forty-meter-high Ferris wheel squeaks in the wind, the dinosaurs have fallen over and one of them has lost his head. The pirate ship has run aground and the swan boats from the love tunnel have grown stuck in the grass. Spreepark is lonely and deserted like a post-apocalyptic horror landscape.
I visited Spreepark for the first time in August 2015. The first 18 photos are from that visit. Spreepark was the place that led me into urbex in adult life. The second visit was in October 2019 when the park had started its transformation to a public park. The last 13 photos are from that visit. You will see the difference in nature (summer vs. autumn) and photo quality.
Spreepark was an amusement park in former East Berlin. The park went bankrupt in 2001 due to debts, reduced number of visitors and withdrawal of 3 000 parking spaces. Since then, decay has taken over.
In this place that was built to entertain, the happy clown's smile feels almost grotesque – a paradox that makes the place even more interesting. There are a number of astonishing stories behind Spreepark's rise and fall, not least about its last owner.
When the park went bankrupt, the amusement park director had gigantic debts. Somehow he managed to convince the city of Berlin to take six of the carousels from the park to Peru to "fix them". That was not really true, he had plans to open a new park in Lima.
When the new park in Lima also went bankrupt, the amusement park director embarked on a completely different business. He decided to return the attraction "The Flying Carpet" to Germany and did so too, but not without hiding something extra inside the swing.
Namely, the hefty weight of 167 kilos of cocaine that he helped the Peruvian mafia smuggle to Europe. If you managed to smuggle six large carousels out of Germany, 167 kilos of cocaine should not be a problem to smuggle into the country, right? Well, drugs and carousels turned out to be two completely different smuggling objects. The plan went awry and it all ended with imprisonment and family tragedy.
In August 2014, large parts of the park burned in a fire. In 2011, the action-thriller "Hanna" was filmed in the area.
Read more about Spreepark on: www.berliner-spreepark.de
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Spreepark by Ramobaxyle on October 24 2020 14:04 hr CE(S)TShortlink to this report: [ https://urbx.be/nsff ]
Finding out the location
very easy
Access
easy
Safety
unsafe
Risk of being seen
very high
General condition of the place
good
Traces of vandalism
few
Good place for taking pictures?
very good
Did you see other people?
few
Visit date July 13 2020 at 13 hr Visit duration 2 hours
Une de mes meilleures explorations!
Mon plus grand regret sera de ne pas avoir eu d’appareil photo performant à portée de main...
je reconseille vivement ce spot cultissime
Beaucoup d’adrénaline parce qu’il faut être h24 sur ses gardes et surtout ne pas faire de bruit
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Infos pratiques:
Visites guidées pour les non-urbexeurs le mardi et vendredi je crois donc faites attention :)
Grillage 2.20m je dirais à vue de nez
Une plaque sur le grillage indique la présence de chiens
Penser à prendre un des plans d’époque disponibles sur le web pour être sûr de ne rien louper
Text and photos are by Ramobaxyle. Click here to see Ramobaxyle's profile and other reports.
on October 24 2020 14:04 hr CE(S)T
