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 The marquee city |
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| The marquee |
Mounting the marquee |
The marvellous front of the Circus Krone marqee consists of two special trucks, each of them
twelve metres long and 28 tons of weight. The mounted front is hinged and can be driven out
by hydraulics up to an height of twelve metres. Behind all this lies the Circus city, 30.000 square
metres of size, with 400 inhabitants, 250 Animals, 330 waggons for living and the transportation
of luggage and equipment, comfortable stables and the largest Circus marquee in the world with
it's 5.000 seats - multi-cultural, mobile on a high grade and nearly self-supporting. Even a
Mayor - works inspector Claus Lehnert - and a complete urban infra-structure with school,
fire-brigade, municipal authorities, department of town planning and architecture, public
relations office and refuse disposal belongs to it.
Which other enterprise of this order can assure to manage
all it's daily tasks in such a nearly self-supporting way.
Circus Krone, providing the largest Circus marquee of the present (5.000 seats!),
depends only on some help from outside in some very few things.
Only the water supply and the place for the Circus do have to exist.
Among the 400 employees nearly all professions needed are represented.
Usually only a small part of the Krone employees are visible. First of
all his attention belongs to the Actors and the Animals in the manège.
Much preparatory work is necessary to let the shows begin
in due to time and also to let them become an
unforgettable experience for the visitor:
Supply, care, and species-pleasant keeping of more than 250 Animals.
Transportation of the 330 living-, luggage- and equipment waggons from town to town
- 30 times each season. The largest travelling Circus marquee of the present is mounted
and disassembled 30 times every year.
Suburban fast repairs and new acquisitions managed by our own workshops
(e. g. ladies' and gentlemen's- tailoring, saddlers, mechanicians, joiner, painters, locksmiths, ...).
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| The most modern kitchen on wheels. A special purpose truck of 14 tons provides about 150 employees with three meals every day. |
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The Krone firebrigade with it's own fireengine takes care for the fire prevention. |
Six generators with a total power output of 800 kW
are providing the Circus with current 24 hours every day.
Circus Krone owns the one and only travelling
toilet for handicapped people of the of the world.
Krone employees