There are in Frankfurt, a place, a leafy microcosm where you can feel the German people’s soul for a pulse. It is track 15 on the mini-Golf course on the Nidda. If you happen to be there on a Sunday afternoon, has plenty of material for a sociological study. About childlike joy, and fear of failure, through false modesty, genuine Schadenfreude, and masculine aggressiveness. On the Arrogance front, and the small according to the nature after trying to cope with this track.
In the case of track 15 is not the target of the usual circular hole in it is to carry the Ball, but in the air a coherent network, which is reminiscent of a landing Net. To hit the Ball in there, you have to beat him with plenty, but not too much momentum on a ramp, that he may reach his destination in the blink of an eye.
Frankfurt has to offer Yes a ball is sporty a lot, but in terms of mini Golf supply show gaps. Well, it is since the beginning of the 1960s, existing, directly on the Nidda river-shore facility. Because who doesn’t love a futuristic, black light mini Golf in the dark (a provider on the Berger street) and the somewhat joyless course in the palm garden and in the Forest playgrounds ash forest and Swan home, not counting lands for a classic game of this indestructible, for decades, unmodified game on the system in the district of Heddernheim. The 18 well-maintained cars are there, in a pretty garden area; at the Stall, it is for the children to be the essential ice-cream on a stick and/or after the game; two older gentlemen sit your racket in front of the first tee to a Bank, take a SIP of your target water and raise your bottle of beer in salute.
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Much here breathes the charm of the seventies and eighties, but also the kindness of this place. “Stamp collection, Märklin model railroad, mini-Golf,” says one of the four operators of the rail and grinning in this for Muff and bourgeois environment of the game on concrete highways with steel racket and plastic ball had been sorted but always. A game in which only families outlet for the children, and the elderly kill the (Free)time? The operator of the Heddernheimer Appendix’ve been watching for a while, a change that had been reinforced by Corona again significantly. A lot of young people between 20 and 30 years would, in these weeks, the tracks are haunting.