Doesn’t matter, Pure ski fun for the whole family can also offer a ski hall for a few days. Of course, these “indoor ski areas” are not a replacement for the view of alpine peaks and endlessly snowy forests, but they are Perfect for first slip experiences on skis or snowboards and a welcome sporting balance After celebration and long office days. Above all, however, the homogeneous snow conditions at -1 degrees indoor temperature enables itself to adjust to the skiing requirements again after the long break. Anyone who smiles now should be said that there Even professional training camps even take place in the summer months. For this purpose, the corresponding sections of the route are also iced over with water and the snapping out of the start boxes for ski bosses are then trained, etc. Of course, any equipment can be borrowed on site and nobody has to do without the stop.
Ski halls in Germany
I already had the performance center for three years ago Cross -country skiing and biathlon in Oberhof/ Thuringia visited, one of the few Cross-country ski halls in the world. This is less about the steepness of the slopes than the length. After all, 1.2 cross -country kilometers (classic and skating) can be used for little money all year round in the winding and clever tunnel system with daylight remote star. That has something.
There are currently four alpine ski halls in Germany alonenamely in Bottrop, Neuss, Bispingen and Wittenburg. Everyone is designed in a similar way and yet have small peculiarities.
The Longest piste offers with a length of 640 meters and a cornering distance without question Alpincenter Bottrop in the North Rhine-Westphalian Ruhr area. Skinders and snowboarders promote conveyor belts to the 77 meter higher starting point. In addition, there is a 1,000 m long toboggan run, an indoor skydiving wind tunnel and a high rope climbing park.
In the Lower Saxon ski hall Snowworld Bispingen Skifans have been able to operate winter sports south of Hamburg since 2006. The height difference on the “Heidegletscher” is 30 meters and the departure length is 300 meters. A snow park is available for freestyler, a toboggan run for toboggan freaks. In addition to various seasonal events, you can also find an offshoot of the Munich Hofbräuhaus.
Also the Alpenpark Neuss In the Rhineland near Düsseldorf, a 300 -meter -long main slope and a 100 -meter -long side slope for beginners. There is also an alpine golf and fun football facility.
This is only 80 km from Hamburg in the west of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Alpincenter Hamburg-Wittenburg. Here a 330 meter long ski slope is waiting (up to 30% slope) On the guests and there is a delimited secure exercise slope of around 90 meters (10% slope) for beginners. The alpine center offers several lifts, a blue and a red slope as well as a 60 m long tubing track and a small freestyle park (The obstacles and humps are placed on the edges of the slopes). In addition to a Vandervalk Hotel and various restaurants, there is also a kart track and a bowling alley on the site of the ski hall.
Speaking of snow: As on the open -air slopes, usually also, 15 snow cannons provide fresh snow here. This contains no chemical additives and is therefore not considered a artificial snow. The slopes are carried out during the closing times with the help of a classic “Pistenbully 400”.
A total of 54 recirculation cooling devices in the ski hall and five chillers ensure the average indoor temperature of -1.5 ° C around the year. There are also 30 kilometers of cooling hoses. It is cooled with Tyfocor (glycol) instead of Amonik. The neighboring biogas plant delivers the required heat for the entire building. Around 200 kilometers of power cables supply the entire ski hall complex with electricity.
Worldwide ski hall overview
Thanks to the latest cooling technology there are now at least 40 worldwide more, partly spectacular ski halls. For example in the Netherlands, in Belgium, Amnéville (northern France), Tamworth (England), Melbourne (Australia), China and Dubai, even in Hyderabad (India). In Denmark, ski fans have been able to run from the roof of a Copenhagen power plant with sea views all year round through the roof of a Copenhagen power plant. You run on the “Copenhill” but not on snow, but On environmentally friendly plastic mats As they are used as sliding surfaces in summer. Maybe a concept of the future; For me, however, skiing and snow are essential. Sand dunes skiing is unfortunately rarely possible (MW only in the Arab Emirates), unfortunately no longer on the Dune de Pilat am Atlantic near Bordeaux and the large hiking dune of Leba on the Polish Baltic coast. The only further exception is that Kaolinberg From Hirschau near Selb in the Upper Palatinate, where you can slide down steeply on the steeped material for porcelain production or the finest white ore-containing toner.
Experience ski hall Wittenburg up close
I have in this time in Wittenburg Station made and the two hours (Time card for adults 30.- Euro) very enjoyed. On December 24th. At lunchtime there was not much operation and I was able to let off steam to international “Christmas earworms” to my heart’s content-sometimes in the Fox, sometimes in the waltz rhythm. Door on, skiing, ten meters to the lifts. Let yourself fall into the comfortable four-seater lift, get out after about three minutes and seamlessly back on the slopes with swing-sometimes on the right, sometimes left down, sometimes over a few freestyle hump, sometimes shot, sometimes with controlled fronds full width of 40 meters; So almost a kilometer of slopes comes together. 20 trips non -stop without queuing – wonderful. Inexpensive skiers can book individual and group lessons in the spacious vorow in the generous with a needle felt and of course all skiing material can also borrow from the service staff. Integrated into the ski hall is also a small winter village with an ice rink, which can be used for events.
And because it was/ is so beautiful Behind a glow punch with Kaiserschmarren in the glacial ceremony-with a warm look into the snow world behind glass (piste 80% visible from below). I come back, then I best bring my cross-country ski and my biathlon laser rifle with you to run the alpine beginner line in a skating style in between. That warms up again because The permanent temperature of -1/-2 degrees should not be underestimated. Apart from the wind, there is no wind, apart from the wind, but also no sun rays – that would be an innovation. Snow it …
Mei Skifoarn…. It’s fun everywhere and the unfriendly weather in northern Germany just stays outside. This is exactly what other skiers emphasized when you got into conversation in the lift. One had even traveled from Rügen over 260 kilometers to get fit for the upcoming snowboard vacation in Austria. Not to mention the happy parenting faces: be it that you can also closely observe your loved ones as a non-kiliary behind the disc or to immediately capture their progress with the cell phone camera-pride as Bolle.
PS Little Snow Cond
No snowflake is like the otherall, like a genetic fingerprint, are unique. Nobody knows why this is so. The only thing that is certain is that when it comes to the formation of water and (stars), they measure less than 0.1 millimeters. Together they only have the basic hexagonal form (6000 sub -groups have been discovered so far). Depending on the cold and moisturizer, the crystals are becoming more and more branches offto always release heat over the largest possible surface. During their falling towards the earth, the mini ristals are transformed into snowflakes with further thicker or thinner ramifications and rotations. There are many small air chambers, among other things, the reason why snow is such a good silencer. Powder snow only occurs in very dry cold. From minus 10 degrees, shaping a snowball is almost impossible, as the crystals break and literally trickles through your fingers. A real winter Wonderland.
