HANSA-PARK
Sierksdorf, Germany
Park News - (6/12/07) I wasn’t aware of this myself, but Germany’s Hansa-Park actually started out it’s life as the world’s second Legoland park, opening in 1973 as Legoland Siersdorf, the follow up to Legoland Billund that had just opened in 1968. Things just didn’t work out for the park and it was closed in 1976 and reopened a year later as Hansaland before adopting the current Hansa-Park name in 1987. Even today the park’s main entrance still has that that classic Legoland style look. This will all change very soon however as the entrance will be converted over the next few years (from 2007 to 2012) into a collection of well known monument structures built 3:2 scale including a 54 foot tall version of the Holsten Gate (Luebeck, Germany) that will be the new entrance.
 2012 - Jungle Park - (11/28/11) Hansa Park’s website has confirmed that the “5th phase of the theme world, “The HANSEATIC LEAGUE in EUROPE” will be coming. “Detailed planning includes London, Ribe (Denmark’s oldest town) and Bergen or La Rochelle, Barcelona or Lisbon.” I assume this is the final phase of the huge rethemeing project that the park has been undertaking for the last several years.
Meanwhile, inside the park, the Children’s Theater will also be transformed for 2012 into “Jungle Park”, an indoor themed play area for the younger kids to enjoy.
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