Playground@Landscape

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Articles in issue 2019 - 3

Coverstory

Osnabrück Zoo: Climbing and sliding alongside lions, tigers & other creatures

Visitors can tell they are approaching the four playgrounds on the 23.5-hectare site of Osnabrück Zoo by the gleeful shrieks and the sounds of children's laughter. These imaginative playgrounds are every...

Parks & Leisure Facilities

Discover the exotic wildlife and experience adventures at the Rostock Zoo

The Rostock Zoo provides a home for 4,200 animals of 430 different species. The animal biodiversity ranges from little meerkats and tiny pygmy marmosets, penguins and snow leopards to imposing polar bears...

Parks & Leisure Facilities

Special playing experience in the Sea Zoo in Bremerhaven

The small but nice Sea Zoo by in Bremerhaven is situated directly next to the Weser dike with a view to the Weser delta from where the water flows directly into the North Sea. The Sea Zoo in Bremerhaven, which...

Playground Report

Flying houses over Southern Münsterland

In Western Germany, almost every child knows the Ketteler Hof, which is a leisure park situated between the Ruhr Area and Münsterland. No wonder, because on an area of 115,000 sqm...

Events

Attractive playgrounds and sports facilities at the national garden show BUGA Heilbronn

At Heilbronn/Neckar the national garden show is presenting itself on an area of 40 hectares as a driving force of urban development planning. For the first time, the garden show with its diverse offerings also includes...

Fitness & Urban Sports

What is a pump track? And what is the appropriate strategy to deal with a related project?

There are both private and public pump tracks. They are specially designed circuits for all kinds of cycles and other forms of wheeled equipment. The technique used to master a pump track ‒ the so-called 'pumping' ‒ occurs...

Fitness & Urban Sports

'Bewegungsplan 2019' – plenty of innovations and information all around contemporary playground and exercise spaces

The now seventh 'Bewegungsplan' seminar organised by Playground@Landscape was held in Fulda in Hessen on 2 and 3 April 2019. Again, more than 170 participants came and used the opportunity to attend the interesting and informative...

Fitness & Urban Sports

From this summer, it will be possible to enjoy the thrills on Germany's most up-to-date pump track near Bamberg

The small community of Litzendorf led by its mayor, Wolfgang Möhrlein, had long had the desire to install a new leisure attraction. Over months and years, various proposals had been...

Fitness & Urban Sports

Saarbrücken skatepark - an area for Olympic demands?

In summer 2020, skateboarding will debut as an Olympic sport at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. There, 40 men and 40 women from all over the world will be vying for gold, silver and bronze medals in the categories...