Germany Pavilion, Themed area in World Showcase, Epcot Florida, US.
The Germany Pavilion is a themed area in World Showcase featuring traditional architecture with stone buildings, timber framing, and Gothic details arranged around a central plaza with a St George statue. The space includes multiple shops such as Das Kaufhaus department store, Volkskunst clock shop, and Weinkeller wine shop selling German goods.
The pavilion opened on October 1, 1982, as part of the original World Showcase launch. Early plans included a Rhine river boat ride that was never constructed, which would have featured miniatures of German landmarks.
The Biergarten Restaurant stages a permanent Oktoberfest: long communal benches, facades of a Bavarian village, the flags of every German state and a working watermill, with a band playing German folk music. The dining hall occupies the entrance area of the Rhine boat cruise that was planned but never built.
The pavilion is easy to navigate with restaurants, shops, and entertainment all located together. It works well to visit earlier in the day when it is less crowded, or to stop by Karamell-Küche between meals for a snack.
The pavilion was designed in the late 1970s with a boat cruise down the Rhine, Tauber, Ruhr and Isar rivers, and Disney's 1976 annual report promised miniatures of landmarks including Cologne Cathedral. The ride was never funded; its entrance gate and foyer, right of the Biergarten entrance, now serve as a dining area, and a mural wall hides the old load and unload space, used for storage, a workshop and cast rehearsals.
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