4K 1 HOUR of Museum Tour Miniatur Wunderland 2022∘Crowd, Walkthrough, World´s largest model railway

History of Wunderland
It took only five months from the initial idea in July 2000 until the construction of the first section started. Just eight months later, in August of 2001, the Miniatur Wunderland opened with its first three theme worlds. Here you can read how an idea, which at first appeared impossible to realize, turned into a major success.
The most important information beforehand:
On August 16th, 2001 the Miniatur Wunderland had its grand opening with the sections Central Germany, Knuffingen and Austria.
By today we already have 10 complete sections.
The last section to be opened was Fun Fair on February 21st, 2018.
In July 2000, Frederik Braun was visiting the alpine city of Zurich, Switzerland. Strolling through the alleys of Zurich’s center, he came across a railway model shop, which at once evoked childhood memories in him. Inspired by this reminiscence, the idea to make a long forgotten childhood dream come true became more and more prominent within hours after seeing the railway model shop.
On the very same day, Frederik called his twin brother Gerrit, taking him by surprise by saying: “We are going to build the world’s largest model railway”. Gerrit, rather sceptic by nature, thought Frederik had gone mad and doubted the sincerity of his idea. But after receiving at least another six calls that day, with Frederik enthusiastically proposing new ideas on the topic, Gerrit realized how serious his brother was about the idea. He started considering the project from an economical and technical point of view. He came to the conclusion, that the project would be a technological challenge, the economic aspect would be very risky, from an entrepreneurial point of view it would be plain crazy, but overall it should be possible. Thus, Gerrit was infected by this idea as well. At that time, the two brothers, together with their business partner Stephan Hertz, had been running a night club in Hamburg and wanted out of the nightlife scene for a while.
The following days and weeks Frederik, Gerrit and Stephan spent their time substantiating their mutual dream, in spite of all doubts and skepticism from people around them. Shortly after the “Zurich Epiphany”, all three of them felt that they would commit themselves to this risky adventure.
Why Hamburg, why the historic warehouse district?
“To me, Hamburg is the most beautiful and perfect city in the world.” is a quote often heard from Frederik, Gerrit and Stephan, when asked about the city. All three of them are Hamburgians by heart and feel a close connection to their home city as well as responsibility. Therefore, from the beginning, it was clear to the team that the world’s largest model railway would of course be built in Hamburg.
However, looking for a suitable location within the prospering city on the Elbe river proved to be complicated. The task was to find a location that is attractive to both tourists and locals and easily accessible. At least 2,000 m2 would be needed on each floor, as well as a possibility to expand in the future. And the architecture had to be suitable for a model railway! All at affordable prices, of course. The Hamburg Board of Economics made the introductions to the HHLA (Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG), who was immediately enthusiastic about the idea and provided the premises at Kehrwieder at fair conditions. The perfect location was found.
How was the Wunderland financed?
It soon became clear that a model railway of this size and richness of details would be enormously expensive and a loan needed to be taken on to get started. Frederik made an appointment with their preferred bank, the Hamburger Sparkasse (Haspa), and presented two pages of paper roughly outlining their idea and the wish to secure a loan of 2 million Deutsche Mark. All three of them were sure that their bank adviser would laugh at them. 2 million, two pieces of paper and the dream of a model railway. Certainly, this would not look like a promising investment to a banker - or so they thought.
Surprisingly, the Haspa agreed to the loan very quickly. Looking back, the original estimate of 2 million Deutsche Mark was a miscalculation: Until today, the amount has grown to 14 million Euro. Fortunately, the number of estimated visitors was also miscalculated - over 1,400,664 people from all over the world have visited the Miniatur Wunderland since then.
At this point, we might add that, other than most exhibitions of its size, the Miniatur Wunderland is not publicly subsidized.
Visit the Miniatur Wunderland located in Hamburg, Germany!

[@DerVomLinkenNiederrhein]

(DE) Was ist das Besondere am Miniatur Wunderland? Seine schiere Größe? Ja, auf jeden Fall! Spektakuläre Ideen und deren ebenso spektakuläre Umsetzung? Natürlich: Unübertroffene Modellbauleistung und Technik (wie dem Car-System, dem Flughafen, der Lichttechnik und vielem mehr)! Aber vor allem: Details, Details, Details! Mit ungeheurer Phantasie umgesetzt. Bisher habe ich (von den offiziellen Videos des Wunderlandes mal abgesehen) noch keine Aufnahmen gesehen, die diese Details so großartig zeigen. Schlag auf Schlag in bester Qualität! Tolles Video - vielen Dank dafür! (EN) What is so special about Miniatur Wunderland? Its sheer size? Yes, definitely! Spectacular ideas and their equally spectacular realization? Of course: Unsurpassed model construction and technology (such as the car system, the airport, the lighting technology and much more)! But above all: details, details, details! Realized with tremendous imagination. Apart from the official Wunderland videos, I've never seen any footage that shows these details in such great detail. Shot after shot in top quality! Great video - many thanks for that! [Translated with DeepL.com (free version)]

[@criscoleman]

This is truly amazing. I had no idea such a place existed, and the size! My goodness. You could spend all day in there and probably never see it all, due to the changing lighting conditions - from day to night and back to day again. And the attention to detail of the buildings and the likely hundreds of thousands of tiny little people, not just outside the buildings but inside them as well, all in various poses, many engaged in doing things that everyday people would do, others walking, picnicking, enjoying the carnival, and so forth. I can't begin to imagine how many hours went into creating all these little people, let alone all the buildings, bridges, mountains, Mount Vesuvius, and the flying saucer. LOL Thanks for taking the time to record your experience so those of us can see what a wonderful world we live in who don't have the chance to get out and see it all.

[@Bruno.Trains]

Ce réseau est fabuleux autant par le réalisme du décor que par la collection du matériel qui y circule. Un grand merci pour le partage de ces images qui font rêver.

[@zsoltpalik8276]

Elképeztő ez az ügyesség amit itt látni, nagyon élethű és szinpompás nagyon tetszik.

[@noble7016]

Def on my bucket list of places to visit ❤

[@vzvodnyj1]

Wonderfull place,.Thank you.

[@thomasgoodwin2648]

I had no idea such a place even existed let alone have the means to actually visit. Thank you for again reminding me that the career path I chose was probably the wrong one. Looks like that would be so fun to build! 😉 And just plain Thanks for sharing this. Very enjoyable.

[@soundtravel240]

Exactly why I’m making such videos! Happy to continue doing it 😊

[@RailroudHobby]

very cool video its stil on my wishlist to go there pay a visit

[@insel-fotografie3864]

Moinsen, Ein hammermäßiges Abenteuer mit euch und mit diesem Video!... &, dazu auch grandiosen Momente (Aufnahmen), einfach nur sehr schön.

[@soundtravel240]

Vielen Dank! 🥰

[@insel-fotografie3864]

@@soundtravel240 "Sehr gerne"!

[@KARANISINGH_RATHORE.]

Wow !!

[@HHL235]

Tolle Aufnahmen 👌! Nur der der dauernde O-Ton stört. BITTE musikalisch vertonen, dann 👍👍👍 bzw.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.

[@miltonsimundi3393]

❤❤❤❤❤Meu sonho de consumo...

[@larrypugsley6815]

So cool

[@salahkontar4557]

Waw take me there plz

[@matthewskudzienski888]

I see that I like was a UFO

[@erikvangoethem2777]

So fiel larm.. ist das die anlage oder machen die besucher soviel krach? Das war wohl der video den ich noch brauchte... immer mehr schadegefuehl das ich nicht mehr selber da gerate

[@matt47110815]

Soll das Deutsch sein?

[@sergiocavalero236]

2:20 W.T.F? XD