World's Largest Model Railway! Miniatur Wunderland - Hamburg, Germany

I can not believe I live in Germany and never have been there - thanks for inspiring a new trip to a great location!

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What a great video, thank you! :) I am from Hamburg and very proud of our Miniatur Wunderland and it makes me so happy how many people go there every year. You seemed so genuinely happy! Glad you had a good time. Your family seems so lovely, I hope you all have many more amazing trips like this. Danke ;)

You are such a great family and your videos are fun to watch. Just one thing: To avoid light flickering in indoor scenes you should set your camera fps and shutter speed to local power frequency conditions. In Germany or Europe its mostly 25 or 50 fps and 1/50 or 1/100 shutter speed (as power frequency is 50Hz) - while in the US its common to use 30/60 fps and 1/60 or 1/120 shutter speed (for 60Hz power frequency).

The red brick buildings along the river and canals/fleets in Hamburg date from the late 1800s till 1920s. They were once built to store goods that were either imported into Germany or sold and shipped abroad again. As long as they stayed in that part of the harbour they were not taxed. The entire area was surrounded by tax gates with a custom’s officer on duty. With the advent of the modern container and paper work done online the outdated warehouses became obsolete. The tax gates and fences vanished. Only a few warehouses still serve their original purpose: coffee, spices and above all oriental carpets wait for buyers in them. In those old days goods were unloaded from the ships into engineless barges, so-called lighters, and towed alongside the waterside of the warehouses. The corresponding other side of the warehouses led to a street or railtrack. Despite the fact that those buildings look „ancient“ they have a skeleton from steel girders or even concrete.

the marching at the beginning looked like there was a Schützenfest around :D

AWESOME!!!!! Thank you for sharing.

I've been there so many times, at least once a year, but I've never seen it so empty

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Who plans to visit the Miniatur Wunderland: Monaco has been opened a couple of days ago. 💙

Eventhough you think, this are different sections, they are all connected and trains can go all the way from one section to the another one, even over the bridge. Thats how they won the Guiness Book of Records entry.

Today, March 25th 2024 at 16:00 UTC the first "Monaco Grand Prix en miniature" will take place at the MuWuLa. And of course they stream it live on their YouTube channel!

You did not miss the Airport, did you...?

They have UP 4014 (the Big Boy Locomotive)? That's really awesome.

4:36 Yepp, one of the stipulations of the Guinness Book of World Records for "largest model train exhibit" is that a train set down at one spot of the track has to be able to reach any other spot of the exhibit under its own power, no matter how many switches and loops it has to pass. Only if that stipulation is fulfilled will the tracks be considered as part of the whole layout for purposes of size. Edit: only three or four doors to the right of the MiWuLa is the Kaffeerösterei/ coffee roasters in the Speicherstadt. It's a multi purpose coffee, cake, breakfast location within the industrial charm of the old warehouse district. They have multiple high end coffees to choose from that blows everything Starbucks offers right out of the water. They roast their own beans on site in a slightly cordoned-off area but clearly visible. That's what makes it both noisy at times when a whole sack of coffee beans is poured into the roasting pans, but it also smells amazing when the aromas from the freshly roasted beans permeates the air. Should you ever go back, I can't suggest it more highly to plan a nice breakfast or coffee and cake there. Edit 2: thanks for showing the bridge. It was quite a feat to get this connecting bridge approved as the whole Speicherstadt is world UNESCO heritage site. So they couldn't just plonk any old bridge in there. It had to preserve the general 'feel' of the surrounding architecture. The bridge also posed a challenge due to the specific architecture of the buildings. As you know there are loads of canals in Hamburg, which includes the Speicherstadt. The buildings were built late in the 19th century by ramming long poles deep into the silt of the river bed. On these poles the whole quarter was constructed. The Elbe river which feeds these canals is however tidally influenced by the close proximity to the North Sea. Meaning it has high and low tides like the Hudson river, or the Themse in London. Thus the canals run almost completely dry twice a day. This reduces the weight on the canal bed which cause the buildings to lean back away from each other, only to tilt towards each other during high tide. The difference at thr top of the buildings is around 35 cm/ a bit more than a foot. That poses a huge problem for the train tracks as they can't extend or contract that much. But to retain their title as ONE model railway (like I said above) they had to overcome that problem somehow. How they did it I don't know. Edit 3: as you might have noted Germans aren't prude so you get quite a few slightly raunchy scenes in the display. But for the truly raunchy ones you need to take the "Behind the scenes" guided tour. They literally take you behind the displays, show you the shadow stations where all the trains and driving cars park or are recharged. But that's also the only way to get a view of those 'miniature people ' doing raunchy stuff that was a tiny bit too much even for Germany.😂 These scenes were just put at spots out of view of the general public.

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Visited Miniatur Wunderland last summer. It was way busier then. As you say it was overwelming. For me it was actually a bit to big for good.

Eating Burgers in Germany! As if they don’t have enough excellent foods…you must be American !!