Luna Park Hamburg-Altona

At its opening in 1913, it was the largest in Germany; it closed after the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 and reopened for less than a year in 1923.

[1] The Lunapark-Gesellschaft, incorporated in November 1912 and headed by Hugo Smidt, took a 15-year lease from Altona on two adjacent land parcels, including a flood retention basin, the Diebsteich; the projected opening date was 1 May 1913.

[1] The original plan, by Ernst Schmidt & Liedtke, was Baroque in inspiration and highly symmetrical; after delays in construction and problems with building funds, the Altona town architect engaged the Danish architects Juul Brask and Elnar Rosenstand [da] to simplify the park design and design the buildings.

[1][2] Inflation under the Weimar Republic and the resulting widespread poverty seriously affected business by that August, and Haase closed the park and had the buildings demolished.

A street and a children's playground bearing the name Lunapark (located approximately on the site of the bandstand) are the only remaining indications of the park's existence.