What started in 1973 with a man who made a dwarf doll for fun has now developed into a full-fledged amusement park.

The main focus of the park is the fairytale park, which is home to many well-known fairytale characters.

But there are also various rides

Every year in November, the popular Martinikirmes takes place. It is a real highlight: every year many people in the Ruhr area and the Lower Rhine region look forward to this particularly beautiful fair.

The feast day of St. Martin of Tours on 11 November

The Fürther spring market at Fürther Freiheit offers, among other things, haberdashery, leather and steel goods. There is also a daily changing supporting programme, which is offered by the Association of Fürth Market Traders and Showmen in addition

4 days of exceptional atmosphere, it's funfair time in Lingen on the fairground next to the EmslandArena. The merry-go-rounds are turning, the fairground stalls are smelling and there are also fireworks to admire on Fridays (in addition to the family

The Wolfsburg shooting festival was held for the first time in 1951, has since moved several times, but has been held in the Allerpark since 1980. With around 400,000 visitors, it describes itself as "the largest folk festival between the Harz Mountains

The Olomouc Zoo is located near Olomouc, Czech Republic, halfway between Ostrava and Brno. When it was founded in 1956, the zoo covered an area of 25 hectares. It all began with a few stags, roe deer, and pheasants.

Today, the zoo has expanded to cover 42

In the small British seaside resort of Mablethorpe in the East Lindsey district, around 35 kilometres south-east of Grimsby and 60 kilometres east of Lincoln, you will find Manning's Family Funfair amusement park. This amusement park, which is also known

In Saarburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, about 25 km from Trier and about 20 km from the Luxembourg and French borders, you will find the Saarburg summer toboggan run, which opened in 2001. The most convenient way to get to the start of the summer toboggan run

Forget all that typical marketing talk about ‘Ruhrpott romance’. At its heart, the spring fair in Castrop-Rauxel is quite simply the moment when the town realises that winter is finally over. When the first fairground rides start to be set up between

In London's Bankside district, right on the Thames in the historic County Hall, directly opposite the London Eye, you'll find London Dungeon. The Dungeon was originally the first of its kind to open in Tooley Street underneath the tracks of London Bridge