photo: Tonkberlin / CC
Berlin, are you ready for the Spreepark to finally (legally…) open its gates again?! You probably heard some stories of this abandoned amusement park in the Southeast of Berlin, but we got the real crazy sauce for you. So, why was it abandoned and how come no-one ever tore it down? And how can you get in there to see some of the crazy old rides of the park? Let’s start from the beginning.
Germans are famous for their grumpiness – and sometimes it feels like the new expats are adapting it quicker than they would admit themselves. While gentrification is a real issue, we cannot stay entirely focused on that, because that leaves us with no time to support new initiatives with the potential to have a really positive impact on our city. Today, we are presenting 5 such ideas from the minds of our local visionaries – the future may not be as dim as you’ve thought!
For the fans of American Horror Story this makes a great setting for the unraveling of gruesome and spooky plotlines. The ferris wheel used to be part of the Spreepark, a theme park in Treptow Köpenick that opened in 1969 as Kulturpark Plänterwald. Unfortunately, a lack of ample parking space and a rise in the price of the ticket led to the closing of the park on the onset of the current century. What followed was an unbelievable series of stories about the park and its owner that far exceeds the notoriousness of most other abandoned places in Berlin. The following spectacular drone video made by a Swedish drone flyer and urban explorer showcases the park, as it is now; abandoned and forgotten with the ferris wheel moving slowly in the wind as if ghosts keep it company to make it forget its eternal loneliness. Read on…
photos by Kieran / Crystalmafia
The lovely Kieran from Crystalmafia made these wonderful photos of last weekend’s Luna Land party at Spreepark. See more of it after the jump.
I have heard so much about this place. I always wanted to go, but I never really got quite round it. I’m talking about the Spreepark at Plänterwald. It’s that abandoned amusement park with a quite dramatic backstory. The owner and his son actually sit in prison for trying to smuggle drugs in one of their rides from Peru back to Berlin. It’s all really Hollywood actually.
This coming weekend I will finally have a chance to go to this mythical place. Luna Land is opening it’s doors there for a two-day party marathon with Tiefschwarz, M.A.N.D.Y, Matthew Johnson (live), Ame, Hugo, Un Homme et Une Femme, Crystalmafia, Joey Handsome and many more. A few more impression and the flyer after the jump. Win tickets in our facebook group.