Abandoned Water Slide in Spreepark, Berlin - Foto: Urban Ghosts media - public domain
There are some great articles in the online realm about abandoned amusement parks – former fun-filled places where the screams and raucous laughter have given way to a more creepy atmosphere. But an exploration of Spreepark in Berlin will reveal more than rusty rollercoasters. Here you’ll find yourself wandering among full-scale plastic dinosaurs, which almost appear to be watching over the dilapidated amusements.
It’s a curious sight on the landscape, which conjures the image of a second coming of the dinosaurs, wandering through a post-apocalyptic landscape characterised by the twisting metal of Spreepark’s decaying rides. In this modern dinosaur world, the Tyrannosaurus (top) and a couple of other unfortunate specimens have been toppled. And with the king of the carnivores out of action, the massive Brontosaurus – which appears to be going nowhere fast – can breathe that sigh of relief it never had back in its Jurassic lifetime.
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The Spreepark was an entertainment park in the north of the Plänterwald in the Berlin district Treptow-Köpenick (formerly part of the GDR-controlled East Berlin). It was well-known also under its earlier name Kulturpark Plänterwald.
Spreepark, el parque de atracciones fantasma
Hay quienes se vanaglorian muy ufanos de haber ejercido de clandestinos en Spreepark, ese parque de atracciones abandonado en Plänterwald, Treptow-Köpenick. A la gente le gusta decir: ‘Yo me colé en Spreepark’ (como si fuera la proeza más genuina en la vida de un individuo, deleitándose con cada palabra, como si tuvieran joyas de Cartier en la boca); /‘Spreepark es mi sitio favorito de Berlín’/ (a pesar de que hasta el 9 de agosto de 2009 el acceso estaba prohibido y no admitía visitas desde su cierre por insolvencia en 2001); /‘Cómo, ¿todavía no has estado en Spreepark?’/ (inoculando esa sensación de estar perdiéndote el elixir mismo de la existencia).
Creyéndose originales, alternativos, modernos, el summum. Con ese desprecio natural que mana de la superioridad arrogante de líderes frustrados que lo quieren todo para sí mismos y solamente para ellos, sin que sea mancillado por los demás. Con ese afán didáctico -mortalmente aburrido- del pionero; ese síndrome del descubridor que podríamos catalogar como ‘el mal de Cristóbal Colón’, que sólo conduce al ridículo común y a la vergüenza ajena primigenia. Esa pretensión insólita de exclusividad.
(Fuente: Centro Alemán de Información)
T-Rex derribado con noria al fondo en el abandonado Spreepark de Berlín - Foto: Urban Ghosts media
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Berlin’s Abandoned Spreepark Is Where Fun Goes To Die
We recently posted about Michigan’s Prehistoric Forest, a dilapidated amusement park full of decaying fiberglass dinosaurs. Berlin has its own defunct dinosaur funland – the Spreepark – which fell on hard times after the collapse of communism.
From 1969 to 1989, Cultural Park Plänterwald was East Germany’s premiere amusement park. After German reunification, the park was rechristened “Spreepark,” saw a precipitous dip in visitors, and closed in 2002, after Norbert Witte – the park’s operator – picked up and left for Peru (he ostensibly left the country to open a new theme park in Lima). Witte and his son Marcel were later arrested for trying to smuggle 167 kilograms of cocaine ($14 million worth) back to Germany inside the “Flying Carpet” carousel. Der Spiegel has a fascinatingly depressing write-up of the Wittes’ Spreepark saga.
An Abandoned Amusement Park in Berlin
By Michaela Lola Abrera
Living in Berlin demands that you actively seek out its hidden haunts and break barriers. The city’s penchant for blending the bizarre with the ordinary makes it the perfect place for curiosity-seekers and non-conformists. Concealed within the lush greenery of the Treptow Park and barred by a rusty iron fence is the abandoned Spreepark (www.spreepark.de). This former GDR amusement center, which opened in 1969 and was best known as ‘Cultural Park Plenterwald,’ carries with it ghostly images of a bygone era.
Puzzle Bobble
Karate Blazers
Puzzle De Bloques
Magical Cat Adventure