About us:

Lochmühle Amusement Park has been an extraordinary and popular attraction in the Rhine-Main area for over 40 years.

Grown to a size of 16 hectars, the park nowadays attracts visitors from all over Germany, but still offers quiet sanctuaries even on busy days.

As a former corn mill and farm the "Lochmühle" chooses to distinguish itself from larger, highly mechanised parks. Instead of having a few big rides with long waiting lines, the park relies on a broad variety in a countryside setting.

Guests can choose from about 100 playing and exercising items, romp along a river´s natural course or on meadows, play with indigenous animals in the petting zoo and even watch baby chicks hatch with a bit of luck. Our offer is rounded off by the possibility to picknick and barbecue in groups of all sizes.

Experiencing nature and animals, playing and fooling around, being able to spend time with the family and doing things together: This exciting mix and the possibility of self-development make up a combination appreciated by school classes, kindergardens and families.

Did you know

Dear guest, did you know

... that the "Lochmühle" used to be a corn mill and local farm, therefore picking up old traditions with its mill wheels, its water, its native animals, its agricultural learning path and the agricultural museum it offers ?

... that the whole tract of land with the parking spaces and the paddocks is more than 160.000 square meters, privately operated and does not receive any public subsidies ?

... that the park has many grilling places, where you can enjoy food and refreshments you brought along ? That the grilling area you reserved is yours all day long and included in the admission ticket ?

... that the "Lochmühle", however, has plenty of dining places ?

... that you can take a train through the park while being taught many interesting things and things worth knowing ?

... that the Amusement Park Lochmühle - located in the Hochtaunus nature reserve - is outstanding and varied attractions among the most popular in the state of Hesse ?

... that the Roman Trail is the first and only offer at the Limes which aims at the playful conveying of information in the form of such a trail?

... that the park offers twelve thrilling rides, including a roller coaster, a switchback railway, a blossom swirl carousel and approximately 100 playing objects like a gigantic slide, a trampoline, a chair lift and inflatable castles for jumping.

... that you should arrive at the park as early as possible to enjoy the whole of the park with all its different exciting offers ?

... that you can rest and stretch on the many benches and seating accomodations in our lovingly cared for gardens and park grounds and revel in 10,000 pansies, 10,000 summer flowers and thousands of dahlias planted every year ?

... that this great leisure time pleasure can be yours all day long for an unbeatable low price and that our admission tickets are very cheap, if you take into account all our offers ?

History

As you may have guessed: The name of our mascot "Polo" is made up of "Po" from "pony" and "Lo", which stands for "Lochmühle". Being in touch with animals and life on a farm is very important to us.

The Lochmühle mill, located in a picturesque valley with the Erlenbach creek, has a diversified history to look back onto: It was first mentioned in the 13th century and served again and again as a meeting point for figures shunning the light as it bordered a forest and was situated between the territories of two princes. About 200 years ago the ancestor of today´s owners ran the mill and the farm. With industrialization prevailing, the Lochmühle mill was closed down as were many other rural mills. At the same time the public inn became more and more popular. A train service connecting the Lochmühle with the Saalburg helped to attract townspeople on Sundays.

After World War II, the Lochmühle area was used by the family purely for agricultural means. When he had to give up agriculture because of health problems, the founder of the Park Theo Zwermann decided to establish a little pony breeding farm. By buying the two Shetland Ponies Heidi and Susi he lay the foundation stone for a horseback riding business. Both his daughters had lots of fun with the Shetland Ponies, and also their friends kept visiting the Lochmühle to go pony riding and the it developed to a pony riding centre with up to 70 ponies in the 1970ies. Additionally, discarded tractors were set up all over the area for playing. The first "real" rides were small self-made cartwheel roundabouts. In the course of time, the number of rides and other opportunities for play increased. The playing objects and grilling places that were additionally offered gained popularity and the park of its own developed, doubling its size through time through new land purchases. Today about 150 attractions are distributed across an area measuring 16 hectares. Children can speed down a giant slide, ride a rollercoaster and roundabouts, float about the Erlenbach on rafts or enjoy a tour of the whole park in the "Polo-Express". It is possible to feed goats, sheep and chickens in the petting zoo, and if you are lucky, you might see little chicks hatch in the animal nursery. The park offers picnic and barbeque huts as well as barbeque places which can accommodate groups of various size. The interesting story of the Lochmühle Amusement was written down by Theo Zwermann in an illustrated booklet, which can be acquired for a small fee at the park.

Park Operation Rules

General terms and conditions

Welcome to the Lochmühle Amusement Park ! You can now enjoy hours of recreation and entertainment.
Although looking forward to a lot of fun, please take care of the usual considerations and precautions. More than anything else, this includes showing responsibility for yourself and others and obeying the following park rules.

1)Domestic authority

1.1 By entering the park, you declare to agree with the park rules.

1.2 Lochmühle Amusement Park is entitled to expel anybody breaking the park rules without compensation.

2)Tickets and prices

2.1 The park area may only be entered with a valid entrance ticket. It may only be entered at the gates marked as entrances for visitors. The tickets must be kept during the visit and have to be shown upon demand. A ticket is only valid on the day issued and loses its validity if the holder leaves the park.

2.2 Persons under the influence of alcohol or drugs can be denied admission or can be expelled from the park.

2.3 Anybody found in the park without a ticket legitimately acquired will have to pay twice the entrance fee.

3)General safety regulations

3.1 Police fire regulations have to be obeyed. It is prohibited to build a fire in places not provided for fires --- grilling areas !

3.2 Visitors may not leave the trails, roads and are required to stay within the marked areas in the park.

3.3 Owning and carrying arms or other dangerous items (pistols, knifes, knuckledusters etc.) is prohibited within the park grounds !

3.4 Orders given out by the park´s staff must strictly be followed !

3.5 Deliberately making loud noises and listening to loud music is not allowed.

3.6 The use of inline skates, skateboards, scooters and similar sports equipment is not allowed at the park.

4)Use of the attractions and other facilities

4.1 Facilities in the park may be used within the frame of the guidelines and rules laid out for them. Please consider the instructions for each attraction and listen to the directions given by our staff. In case you disregard the instructions and/or directions, you can be excluded from using the attraction without compensation. The same applies if you bypass people in the waiting line.

4.2 You are held responsible for all damages caused by disregard or for damages done deliberately.

5)Use of the playing objects

Use of all playing objects, play grounds and similar facilities generally is at your own risk !

6)Grilling rules

6.1 Use of the grilling facilities is at your own risk.

6.2 Grilling is permitted until 6 p.m.

6.3 Please take care that the grill is never left unattended.

6.4 Never leave the grilling area without checking if the place is in an
orderly and clean condition.

6.5 Only use proper charcoal. Paper or wood is not allowed.

6.6 To light the fire, only use solid lighters. Liquid lighters like gasoline, petroleum, spirit and similar substances are not permitted.

6.7 Grills that do not belong to the park may only be placed on the concrete pads provided.

6.8 After grilling, please leave the ash in the fireplace to let it cool.

6.9 We have to hold you liable for damages on things and persons resulting from a careless use of the grilling huts or the grills.

6.10 We are not responsible for (personal) items left behind.

7)Superintendence

We advise all parents and persons accompanying groups to perform their duty of supervision carefully as we cannot release you from this. All parents and supervisors are held responsible for all damages caused by the ones they supervise.

8)Limits to liability

We can only be held responsible for damages caused by our staff intentionally or resulting from an act of gross negligence. We are not liable for items brought into the park.

9)Notification of damages

9.1 All facilities in the park are well maintained and supervised.

9.2 In case you should nevertheless come to harm, please notify us at the information desk before leaving the park. Please also notify us if you have reasons to believe that an incidence could result in a damage.

9.3 We are not liable for damages if notification is given after this time and after leaving the park.

10)Parking

10.1 Our parking places are subject to the German Highway Code ("Straßenverkehrsordnung StVO")

10.2 In order to guarentee congestion free traffic, directions given by our guardians have to be followed carefully.

10.3 Please park your car only within the marked areas. Parking outside of authorized areas and interrupting traffic by doing so, will lead to towing at the vehicle owner´s expense and risk.

10.4 We are not liable for damages caused by force majeure like storms, blizzards, hail, fire, theft or damages caused by other people. This does not apply if the damage was caused by our staff. In this case, though, we can only be held liable if we receive notification of the damage before you leave the park.

11)Advertising and offering goods and services

Advertising on our park grounds and parking lots and offering goods and services is only permitted with a written consent by the managers.

We hope you have a wonderful free and easy day at our Lochmühle Amusement Park !