1,000,000 hours – that’s more than 41,666 days, around 6,000 weeks, over 1,360 months or even 114 years. That’s how much time the hard-working Wunderlanders have spent together creating more and more miniature worlds. In all these hours, entire landscapes and cities have been created on 1,545 m² of layout area, a sea with a capacity of 30,000 liters of real water has been excavated, over 16 km of track has been painstakingly laid and around half a million LEDs have been installed, while 289,000 little figures have found a home in the wondrous worlds of Wunderland during this time.

Over the past 22 years, not only has the world’s largest model railroad layout been created, but also a complete work of art that is constantly under construction. “Every single one of the 1,000,000 hours of work has made Wunderland what it is today and we are so happy to have put so much time into every little detail,” says Wunderland founder Frederik Braun. And indeed, even the smallest details are not spared in terms of working hours. Even individual figures, such as colorfully costumed carnival performers or baroque dancers in opulent dresses, are given exactly the dedication and time they need. And then it can happen that the special production of a single figure suddenly takes several days. Elaborate buildings and important sights keep their builders busy for several months at a time.

Expressed in working hours, this means, for example, that a parking garage at Knuffingen Airport took around 3,000 hours to build, while the construction of the miniature Elbphilharmonie and the development of its mechanics took around 13,000 working hours. The scale of projects such as the world’s largest miniature airport can already be imagined in view of the construction times of individual buildings or figures. The development and construction of the in-house Knuffingen Airport took no less than 150,000 hours. This corresponds to a construction time of more than 200 months or even more than 17 years if a single person had done nothing else around the clock. Fortunately, a whole team of Wunderlanders pitched in and the construction time was reduced to “only” six years.

And who owns the hard-working hands that create the wonder worlds? In the past 1,000,000 working hours, trained dental technicians have created entire landscapes, former confectioners have designed countless sceneries, trained florists have maintained square kilometers of grounds and former zookeepers have made cars drive. “Our Wunderlanders come from a wide variety of backgrounds and each and every one of them brings very special skills and their own personality to the table. This makes Wunderland a very special place,” says Braun.

The diverse worlds of Miniatur Wunderland range from a quaint fantasy location in southern Germany to the Hanseatic home of Wunderland, Switzerland, Italy and now even South America. The “end of the world”, Patagonia, is set to follow at the beginning of 2023. Of course, this is by far not the end of Wunderland’s map expansion and the next million hours of work have already been tackled.

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The TOP 5 high workload worlds

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1 MILLION WORKING HOURS AT A GLIMPSE

WORLDS
Italy ……………………………………………………………………………..180,000 hours
Airport …………………………………………………………………….150,000 hours
Switzerland………………………………………………………………………….150,000 hours
Scandinavia……………………………………………………………….140,000 hours
Hamburg ………………………………………………………………………109,000 hours
America………………………………………………………………………….99,000 hours
Central Germany…………………………………………………….69.000 hours
Rio de Janeiro……………………………………………………………..60,000 hours
Venedig………………………………………………………………………….35.000 Stunden
Knuffingen……………………………………………………………………..28,000 hours
Austria……………………………………………………………………..12,000 hours

BUILDINGS
Colosseum …………………………………………………………………..23 months
St. Peter’s Basilica …………………………………………………………………..22 months
Elbphilharmonie…………………………………………………………13,000 hours
Schloss Neuschwanstein …………………………………….12 months
Prokuratien ………………………………………………………………….34 weeks
Doge’s Palace………………………………………………………………..26 weeks
Airport parking deck P4…………………………………………3.000 hours
Michel …………………………………………………………………………….2,800 hours
Chocolate factory ………………………………………………….2,500 hours
Volksparkstadion………………………………………………………1.200 hours

AIRPLANES
An-124……………………………………………………………………………..5 months
Concorde………………………………………………………………………4,5 months
Beluga…………………………………………………………………………….600 hours

SHIPS
AIDAblu………………………………………………………………………….1,000 hours
Superfast VII………………………………………………………………..720 hours
Kronprins Frederik…………………………………………………….650 hours
Wind of Change…………………………………………………………3 months

CARS
FDNY Tiller Ladder „Seagrave Marauder II“…………………………..72 hours
Airfield fire engine „Ziegler Z8“………………………………………….60 hours
Mountain Valley Truck………………………………………………………………………..40 hours

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For many years, Miniatur Wunderland has officially held the title of the largest model railway in the world. With the addition of the new Monaco/Provence section, the layout has been extended by another 315 meters, further expanding its existing world record. The connection of the new railway section was celebrated on the morning of August 14, 2019, in front of the press and in the presence of Guinness World Records® adjudicator Lena Kuhlmann. With this expansion, Miniatur Wunderland has not only extended its own existing record from 15,400 meters to 15,715 meters but has also achieved another remarkable milestone:

There are model railways worldwide in many different scales. Some are built to be nearly lifelike, while others measure just a few millimeters. The common factor among all is their standardized scale, which relates them to the real world. With a newly calculated 1,367.21 kilometers of “real-world” length, Miniatur Wunderland can now officially claim the title of the largest model railway in the world across all scales.

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Miniatur Wunderland is by far the largest model railroad in the world and, as of today, is an additional 2.4 kilometers longer. On the occasion of the presentation of the new Guinness World Records book 2016, the last section of track between Switzerland and Italy was laid. This means that the Italian section, which is expected to open in summer 2016, is now part of the system. The certificate for the world record was ceremoniously presented to Frederik and Gerrit Braun by Marco Frigatti, the chief Guinness record adjudicator.

“This is a childhood dream come true for me. Even as very young children, Gerrit and I dreamed of being in the Guinness Book one day. The fact that we are now featured on a double page worldwide is simply an incredibly wonderful feeling for me and makes me really proud,” explains Frederik Braun.

In the current edition of the world’s best-selling book after the Bible, Miniatur Wunderland is portrayed on a double page. The book and the report are published in 26 different countries in a print run of over 3,000,000 copies. Wunderland not only holds the record for the largest model railway layout in the world with 15.4 kilometers of track, but also the record for the largest miniature airport.

“In the history of Wunderland, we have already broken one or two records. It’s simply a lot of fun to approach a challenge in a playful way and then create something that no one else has managed yet. We’ll definitely be tackling one or two more records in the coming years,” explains Gerrit Braun.

One thing is certain: Wunderland will continue to grow. After the opening in Italy next summer, Monaco, England, France and hopefully many other parts of the world will follow. “We therefore hope that this will not be the last time we have Guinness as a guest,” concludes Frederik Braun.

Press contacts:

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