Miniatur Wunderland
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Key facts
- Company type
- Limited liability company , ( Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung )
- Industry
- Model railway
- Founded
- 4 January 2001 ; 25 years ago ( 4 January 2001 )
- Headquarters
- Hamburg , Germany
- Key people
- Frederik & Gerrit Braun, Stephan Hertz
- Revenue
- 42,7 Mio. Euro (2024)
- Number of employees
- 448 (2024) , (~ 300 FTE)
- Website
- miniatur-wunderland.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg GmbH
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Hamburg-Mitte
- Area
- 7000
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Industry
- rail transport modelling
- Employees
- 262
- Legal form
- Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
- Official website
- www.miniatur-wunderland.de
- Image
- DungeonMiwula.jpg
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- Commons Institution page
- Miniatur Wunderland
- social media followers
- 840000
- Commons category
- Miniatur Wunderland
- inception
- 2000-01-01
- name
- Miniatur Wunderland
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- fax number
- +49-40-30068099
- phone number
- +49-40-3006800
- native label
- Miniatur Wunderland
- described at URL
- klingon.wiki/En/MiniaturWunderland
- street address
- Kehrwieder 2, 20457 Hamburg
- review score
- 5/5
- official jobs URL
- www.miniatur-wunderland.de/jobs/aktuelle-stellenangebote
- impressum URL
- www.miniatur-wunderland.de/service/impressum
- contact page URL
- www.miniatur-wunderland.de/service/kontakt
- press information URL
- presse.miniatur-wunderland.de
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Encyclopedic overview
The Miniatur Wunderland (German for: Miniature Wonderland) is, according to Guinness World Records, the largest model railway system in the world. It is located at the historic Speicherstadt in Hamburg and is one of the most popular and most visited sights in Germany.
The exhibition includes around 1,230 digitally controlled trains with more than 12,000 wagons. The Wonderland is also designed with around 5,280 houses and bridges, more than 11,800 vehicles – of which around 350 drive independently on the installation – 52 airplanes and around 290,000 figures. The system features a recurring day-night lighting cycle and almost 500,000 built-in LED lights. Of the 10,000 m (107,639 sq ft) of floorspace, the models occupies 1,694 m (18,234 sq ft).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Miniatur Wunderland” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.