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10 Issue One 2014 Photos:StefanBungert,HamburgerDOM a few sites where it is worth setting it up, he explains, because it takes 20 trucks to transport it. In that case, however, he is prepared to drive fairly long distances. To London, for example, where he set up his XXL Mouse at the Christmas market in Hyde Park. He also drives to the Freima- rkt in Bremen, the Hamburg Dom or to Wolfsburg. Hans Roschmann no longer makes such long journeys. He is 70 years old and has 30 sites in the Stuttgart area – or as he puts it, “on my doorstep”. His actual house was sold by his grandfather in 1920. He returned from the war with a bullet wound in the stomach, was unable to con- tinue with the job of a fitter which he had trained for, and thus decided to invest in a merry-go-round and a caravan. This was about the time when Roschmann’s moth- er was born. Ever since, the family has been “on the road”. Regarding caravans: “If you had a Mack caravan in those days, you really were someone,” explains Maximilian Röser, the marketing director of Mack Rides in Waldkirch. The company was founded in Breisgau in 1780, but was originally very different from the specialist in roll- ercoaster construction of all kinds that it has become today. Organs point the way to fairground rides Waldkirch is regarded as a town of organs – and it was also the organ that paved the way for Mack Rides to get involved in festivals and funfairs. This is because Heinrich Mack built the first mobile carriage for an organ back in those days. This appealed so much to fairground entrepreneurs that they asked whether he might not build a caravan as well. No sooner said than done. In the subsequent period, one caravan was built after another. “The caravan market for funfair people sur- vived for a long time, into the 1990s,” remem- bers Röser. The caravans were equipped with extendable bay windows, a veranda, expen- sive carpets and high-quality wood. Today, Mack Rides no longer builds caravans but stationary rollercoasters and flumes – and all over the world. Back to Max Eberhard from Hamburg. “It Title A popular fairground classic with a new concept: the „Wild Mouse XXL“.