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The Dinopark still is quite ok


Cars and horses for the youngsters





Here it was where you got in

Spreepark

Spreepark was founded in 1969 and was Berlin's biggest amusement park until 2001.
Then the guy who had rented the park - Norbert Witte  - packed a bunch of carousels, rollercoasters and flying carpets into 20 containers and shipped them off to Lima to build a "Luna-Park" there, leaving behind a debt of EUR 15 million.
Luckily the city of Berlin had promised to pay any debts, so the banks didn't lose their money.
In November 2003 Witte seemed to be broke again, so he tried to smuggle 181 kilos of cocaine from Lima to Germany, hidden in one of his flying carpets, pretending it had to be repaired in Hamburg.
He was caught and suffered a heart attack while standing before the judge.
Since then nobody took care of the amusement park and now (2008) everything is in ruins.
The park is fenced off but you can have a nice walk around it and look at the remains.


How to get there:

Go to S-Bahn station Plänterwald with S8, S9 or S85. From there it's a ten minute walk to the park.