The entrance of Liseberg

Liseberg is an amusement park located in Gothenburg, Sweden. The park opened in 1923 and is today the largest in the Nordic countries, attracting well over 3 million visitors annually. One of the most popular attractions is the wooden roller coaster Balder. Balder has twice, 2003 and 2005, been voted Best Wooden Tracked Roller Coaster in the world in a major international poll. Liseberg itself has also been chosen as one of the top ten amusement parks in the world (2005) by Forbes Magazine. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (768x1024, 289 KB) (Uploaded using CommonsHelper or PushForCommons) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Liseberg Lisebergstornet Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (768x1024, 289 KB) (Uploaded using CommonsHelper or PushForCommons) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Liseberg Lisebergstornet Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital... Germany Pavilion, part of the Epcot Center theme park in Orlando, Florida Amusement park (also called theme park) is the generic term for a collection of rides and other entertainment attractions assembled for the purpose of entertaining a fairly large group of people. ... Location of Gothenburg in northern Europe Coordinates: Country Sweden County Västra Götaland County Province Västergötland Charter 1621 Mayor Göran Johansson Area    - City 450 km²  (174 sq mi)  - Water 14,5 km² (5,6 sq mi)  3,2%  - Urban 199 km² (77 sq mi)  - Metro 3717... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Political map of the Nordic countries and associated territories. ... Balder is a wooden roller coaster at the Liseberg amusement park in Gothenburg, Sweden. ... Alternate meaning: For the Boston Brahmin family associated with John Forbes Kerry, see Forbes family. ...

The park is also open in November-December with a Christmas market where guests can try anything from ice skating to candied, roasted almonds, hot mulled wine and real reindeer "döner kebab". Most rides, however (including all the roller coasters), do not operate during this time. Christmas markets have recently started to appear in French cities (here, Toulouse). ... Outdoor ice skating in Austria Ice skating is travelling on ice with skates, narrow (and sometimes parabolic) blade-like devices moulded into special boots (or, more primitively, without boots, tied to regular footwear). ... Binomial name Prunus dulcis (Mill. ... It has been suggested that glogg be merged into this article or section. ... Binomial name Rangifer tarandus (Linnaeus, 1758) The reindeer, known as caribou when wild in North America, is an Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer (Rangifer tarandus). ... Döner kebab sandwich served in a thick pita. ...

The official colors of Liseberg are pink and green as can be seen on the entrance and the older houses in the park. By the eighties Liseberg got its symbol, a green and pink colored rabbit.

The park has a lot of stages and restaurants. In addition to rides, guests can also sit and relax.

Rides

Kållerado

Pariserhjulet

Almost every year a new ride opens. In 2005 Liseberg opened a new rollercoaster called "Kanonen" (The cannon). Well-known attractions are Flumeride, Lisebergbanan, Balder. Image File history File linksMetadata Kållerado,_Liseberg,_Sweden. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Kållerado,_Liseberg,_Sweden. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (480x640, 321 KB) Pariserhjulet på Liseberg Fotograf: David Castor (User:dcastor), 13 augusti, 2004 File links The following pages link to this file: Liseberg Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (480x640, 321 KB) Pariserhjulet på Liseberg Fotograf: David Castor (User:dcastor), 13 augusti, 2004 File links The following pages link to this file: Liseberg Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create... A log flume ride A log flume is a horizontal structure that has a cavity for flowing water to carry lumber and logs and generally spans a long distance. ... Lisebergbanan is a steel roller coaster at the Liseberg amusement park in Gothenburg, Sweden. ... Balder is a wooden roller coaster at the Liseberg amusement park in Gothenburg, Sweden. ...

The complete list of the rides includes: Balder, Bumper cars, Circus Express, Fairy Tale Castle, Ferris Wheel, Fishing Boats, Flumeride, Gasten Ghost Hotel, House of Mirrors, Höjdskräcken, Jukebox, Kanonen, Kiddie Boat Ride, Kiddie Bumpers, Kiddie Flight-Carousel, Kulingen, Kållerado, Lilla Lots, Lisebergbanan, Liseberg Tower, Little Frogs, Old-timers, Maxxima Pandavision, Pony Carousel, Rabbit River, Rainbow, Spinrock, Teacups, The Dragonboats, Topspin, Tornado, Tummeliten Carousel, Uppskjutet, Waltzer, and Wave Swinger Bumper car at a small town fair Bumper car is the generic name for a type of flat ride consisting of several small electric cars that draw their power from an overhead grid, which is turned off by the operator at the end of a session. ... A Ferris wheel on the boardwalk in Ocean City, New Jersey, USA. A Ferris wheel (or, more commonly in the UK, big wheel) is a nonbuilding structure consisting of an upright wheel with passenger gondolas suspended from the rim. ...

Accidents

• In 1985 two empty rollercoaster trains collide at Liseberg, causing injuries to staff members.^[1]
• In 1997 25 young people are trapped for three hours when the ride "Hangover" at Liseberg malfunctions.^[1]
• In 2001 a 14-year old boy is pinned between a raft and a landing on the ride "Kållerado" at Liseberg.^[1]
• In 2002 six small children receive minor injuries when a safety latch fails on the attraction "the little frogs" (Swedish: Små grodorna) at Liseberg.^[1]
• In 2005 a power failure affects western Sweden, causing all the attractions at Liseberg to stop, leaving people stranded in various positions but causing no injuries.^[1]
• On July 15, 2006, 21 people were injured at Liseberg when two roller coaster trains, on the rollercoaster Lisebergbanan, collided. The crash happened when the chain that pulls trains up the initial climb malfunctioned, causing a fully loaded train to roll backward into the loading platform, hitting another train that was unloading riders. Since only part of the train was on the lift, the anti-rollback mechanism had not fully engaged and broke. The steel rollercoaster was built in 1987 and is one of Sweden's largest, reaching speeds up to 80 km/h.^[2] Since the accident the rollercoaster has opened again, after a technical adjustment.
• On September 2, 2006, a man received injuries to his head and neck after being hit when a flagpole fell down.^{[1] [3]}
• On October 8, 2006 a woman in her thirties was seriously injured on the log boat ride "FlumeRide". At the second and final drop, a 14 metre slope, the woman apparently panicked and tried to keep the log boat from travelling down the slope by holding on to the railings. She was ejected from the boat into the water and fell down the slope, where she was hit in the head by at least one of the two following log boats. Since she had managed to temporarily keep the log boat from dropping down the slope, the following two log boats passed the last safety gate and couldn't be stopped from falling down the last slope where the women was located. The event was witnessed by the staff who stopped the ride but were unable to prevent two of the log boats from continuing. The woman, who was travelling together with her 11-year old daughter and another woman, was taken to Sahlgrenska University Hospital where she was reported to be in critical but stable condition. A investigation has been initiated by the authorities, and Liseberg has also initiated an internal inquiry.^{[3] [4] [5]}

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Prices

Entrance costs 60 SEK (approx. 8.30 USD $/ 4.40 GBP £) and a one day unlimited rides ticket costs 270 SEK (approx. 37.50 USD $/ 19.70 GBP £) ISO 4217 Code SEK User(s) Sweden Inflation 1. ...

Visitors

• 2005 - 3.2 millions
• 2004 - 2.9 millions
• 2003 - 3.4 millions
• 2002 - 3.0 millions
• 2001 - 3.0 millions
• 2000 - 3.1 millions, Christmas at Liseberg starts
• 1999 - 2.5 millions

See also

• Gröna Lund, the amusement park of Stockholm
• Tusenfryd, an amusement park located in nearby Norway

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References

External links

• Liseberg - Official website (Swedish)
• Liseberg - Official website (English)

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