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/ September 1, 2026
Leipzig Zoo opened on June 9, 1878, in the German city of Leipzig and has grown into one of Europe’s most acclaimed zoological gardens. Spread across roughly 27 hectares (67 acres), it is consistently ranked as Germany’s top-rated zoo and often cited as Europe’s second-best,
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/ August 31, 2026
Hellabrunn Zoo sits on the banks of the Isar River in Munich, Germany, and first opened to the public on August 1, 1911. Financial troubles tied to the aftermath of World War I forced it to close in 1922, but it reopened on May 23,
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/ August 31, 2026
Tierpark Berlin opened in 1955 in the Friedrichsfelde district of East Berlin, created as the divided city’s eastern counterpart to the Berlin Zoological Garden in the west. Built around the grounds of the 17th-century Friedrichsfelde Palace, the park was laid out using landscaping traditions dating
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/ August 29, 2026
Zierer Karussell- und Spezialmaschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG is a German amusement ride manufacturer headquartered in Deggendorf, Bavaria. Founded in 1930, the company began by building wooden living wagons and market stalls for traveling showmen before evolving into one of Europe’s most prolific coaster builders.
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/ August 29, 2026
Anton Schwarzkopf was a German engineer who took over his family’s business in 1960 and turned it into Schwarzkopf Industries GmbH, one of the most influential roller coaster manufacturers of the 20th century. Based in Münsterhausen, Bavaria, the company built rides that traveled with European
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/ August 29, 2026
Maurer Rides traces its roots to 1876, when the Maurer family began operating a steel construction business in Munich, Germany. That steelworking expertise carried the company into bridges, industrial buildings, and eventually amusement rides, culminating in the 1993 acquisition of the roller coaster division from
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/ August 29, 2026
Gerstlauer Amusement Rides GmbH is a German manufacturer of roller coasters and amusement rides headquartered in Münsterhausen, Bavaria. Founded in 1982 by Hubert Gerstlauer, a former employee of the legendary Schwarzkopf Industries, the company began as an electrical and pneumatic supplier before pivoting to full
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/ August 29, 2026
Mack Rides is a family-owned German manufacturer of roller coasters, dark rides, flat rides, and log flumes, headquartered in Waldkirch, Baden-Württemberg. The company traces its roots back to 1780, when it began as a carriage and stagecoach maker before pivoting toward the entertainment industry in
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/ August 26, 2026
The Gewandhaus is Leipzig’s celebrated concert hall on Augustusplatz, home to the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, widely regarded as the oldest bourgeois symphony orchestra in the world. The orchestra traces its roots to a concert society founded in 1743 and took the Gewandhaus name when it
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/ August 25, 2026
Red Bull Arena in Leipzig, Germany, is the home ground of Bundesliga club RB Leipzig and one of the most distinctive stadium builds in European football. Rather than tearing down the old venue, planners constructed an entirely new, modern football-only stadium inside the concrete shell
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/ August 25, 2026
Veltins-Arena opened on August 13, 2001, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, replacing the old Parkstadion as the home of FC Schalke 04. Originally named Arena AufSchalke before brewery Veltins acquired naming rights in 2005, the stadium was built at a cost of about €191 million and quickly
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/ August 3, 2026
Berlin Zoo, formally the Zoologischer Garten Berlin, opened in 1844 in the city’s Tiergarten park, making it the oldest surviving zoo in Germany. Over nearly two centuries it grew into the most species-diverse zoo in the world, a record it has held for decades, while
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/ July 30, 2026
The Semperoper is the historic opera house of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden (Saxon State Opera), standing on Theaterplatz beside the Elbe River in Dresden, Germany. Designed by architect Gottfried Semper, the building first opened in 1841 in a style blending early Renaissance and Baroque elements
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/ July 24, 2026
The Nürburgring is best known as one of the world’s most demanding motorsport complexes, but for one weekend each June its paddock and surrounding grounds in Nürburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, transform into the site of Rock am Ring, Germany’s biggest rock music festival. Since 1985, the sprawling
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/ July 23, 2026
Wacken Open Air has transformed a tiny farming village in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany into the self-proclaimed capital of heavy metal every summer since 1990. What began as a modest local gathering with a few hundred fans has grown into a four-day pilgrimage for tens of thousands
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/ July 17, 2026
The Nürburgring is a motorsport complex built into the hills of the Eifel mountains near the village of Nürburg in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Construction began in September 1925 and the circuit opened in the spring of 1927, originally conceived as a proving ground for German automakers
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/ July 14, 2026
Europa-Park is a 95-hectare theme park in Rust, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, founded by Franz Mack and his son Roland and opened to its first visitors on July 12, 1975. Built as a showcase for the family’s ride-manufacturing business, Mack Rides, it grew from a modest site
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/ July 12, 2026
Germany’s Galaxy Erding isn’t just another indoor water park — it’s the slide complex inside Therme Erding, Europe’s largest thermal spa, built at a scale few competitors can match: 28 slides threading almost 2,850 meters through a dome tall enough to have its own weather.
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/ June 30, 2026
Standing 174 feet above the Palatinate countryside, Expedition GeForce is the tallest and fastest ride at Plopsaland Deutschland — and one of the most decorated steel roller coasters ever built. Since opening in 2001, this Intamin mega coaster has paired an 82-degree first drop with
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/ June 24, 2026
Taron is the ride that put Phantasialand’s Klugheim area on every coaster enthusiast’s map: a 73 mph Intamin multi-launch coaster that threads through faux canyon walls with more track crossovers than any launched coaster on Earth. If you’re planning a trip to Brühl, Germany, and
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