Pfronten up front in German digital play

The small town of Pfronten at the absolute south of Bavaria, Germany, considers playgrounds a serious contribution to children’s and families’ health and well-being. To get more of the physically inactive kids outdoors, a playground refurbishing project made the municipality opt for a series of KOMPAN ICON digital play products.

Being a tourist destination Pfronten also acknowledges the important role playgrounds can play in the choice of holiday destination of families. The director of tourism in Pfronten, Jan Schubert, tells: “Our holiday promise to tourists is “Nature that moves you”. This goes for the young as well as for the elderly. With the new ICON playground we can market ourselves as a modern, family friendly tourist destination”.

In June the refurbishing of the playground, one of 9 in Pfronten, a municipality of 8000 inhabitants, was celebrated in an opening ceremony with children playing games in teams. All Pfronten’s playgrounds have a theme, this one is called the Planet Playground. The playground design was a result of a cooperation with the children’s rights organization Kinderschutzbund Ortsgruppe Pfronten, KOMPAN Germany and the municipality.

The playground is intergenerational and has its emphasis on the age group from 8-15 years. The gaming aspect of the KOMPAN ICON attracts kids to the playground and makes them sweat in friendly and playful competition as they play games as for instance Colour Catch, pushing as many bottoms with their chosen colour as possible within a time limit. Apart from the ICON series of activities the playground features a planet themed climbing activity, a seesaw, swings, balance beams, sand play items, a cable way and a giant slide.

The planet playground is located at a vantage point overlooking the Alps and one of the town’s webcams is placed here to give coming tourist a view of the destination – and young inhabitants a possibility to check out if the friends are in the playground right now.

For more info visit the website of Pfronten at www.pfronten.de

See tv clip about the playground (in German)