Surprised, the young Couple remains standing. The two have discovered on a rock by a naked woman. “Look,” marvels he. “The Lorelei!” “Nonsense!” She shakes her head. “The Loreley’s not so shamelessly; in addition, she sits 400 km down the river on a rock on the shore and sings. But here that is not sitting in the middle of the Rhine falls on the stone.” “You see, the two police officers?” “You put the rock in a ladder.” “Now it’s your turn comes – because of public nuisance.””Arousal? Well, Yes … But annoying I can’t find the, at most amazing. I wonder how that got up there.”

fantasy stimulating the small scene is all because, even if you have to look very carefully to discover them at all. Reduced to the scale of 1:87, is the tiny Nudist on the Rhine-stone, one of many small episodes that bring the visitors a Smile on your face. Smile stones is called as the miniature of Switzerland, the for a year new life in the abandoned premises of the Multi-group SIG in Neuhausen.

All kinds of small Schmunzel-ideas

a year Ago, the Mini-Switzerland opened its first world – a precise, if not quite relationship-oriented replica of the Eastern part of Switzerland; it is held by the aerial cable car that hovers on the säntis summit, about Appenzell, where the rural community, up to Neuhausen, where tourist boats take their passengers to the thundering water masses over to the other side sail. In between, the visitor encounters all sorts of small Schmunzel-ideas – – wedding, drama about: In the Church, the bride, in tears, alone in front of the Altar, while her Almost-husband by fleeing to the Yes-is beyond word.

in The beginning it was a “stupid idea”: the smile stones in Neuhausen. Photo: PD

Before a good month, the second Expansion was presented in-Phase, and also this, a replica of the Bernese Oberland, mixed Smile of the attentive viewer with surprising effects in a translated Marvel and verzücktes. Six meters high, the triumvirate of the protruding ceiling to the hall, on the edge of a ravine a ill fated Wanderer is prepared for the evacuation, with the Rega helicopter, while an octopus when guarded by lakes under the lake a diamond.

“at First, I thought it had been too long exposed to the sun,” recalls plant Manager René Rüedi on the day, as the “stupid idea” was born. Then-Creative Director Raphael had Meyer of the largest model railway system in the world for inspiration. The miniature Wonderland in Hamburg have given Switzerland a Department, he told excited, the Matterhorn was not, however, “really recognize” to. “We’ll get better!”

Deft hands and a lot of patience

Despite his misgivings, travelled Rüedi to Hamburg, visited in the warehouse district near the port, the “Miwula” and was able to immediately understand Meyer’s enthusiasm. He worked out a Business Plan and launched the ambitious project of smile stones. Today Rüedi for the operation, Meyer is the artistic design of the exhibition. With sponsors whose Logos discreetly, but unashamedly in the system are integrated, they have brought the start-up capital and a good dozen craft can set more skillful employees. “It takes a lot of tact to Tinker around the leaves of a forest in miniature form,” explains Rüedi. “We have made the experience that people with a disability to master such tasks with much patience and the utmost precision.”

The most impressive Argument for a visit to the smile stones-miniature world thunders no more than 100 metres away in depth: Europe’s largest waterfall was milled in front of 120’000 years ago from the glaciers into the landscape and is regarded today as one of the most beautiful natural spectacle of our country.

One of the tourist boats brought the two Smilstones visitors who marveled, just a Nude woman on the rocks by the sea spray umsprühte to the basin of the middle rock. About 92 levels, they have risen to the Swiss Flag-up, from the smaller rock is only a few meters. And the raging masses of water. “A pity,” he regretted, “the Loreley is no longer there.””You saw how she was picked up by the police,” she laughs, while your gaze is lost in the white foaming roar. “Me me wonder, how long these rocks to the water to withstand.”

Created: 27.10.2019, 15:06 PM