Anyone who, as a child, has ever tried to recreate a farm in the living room using chairs, blankets, and far too optimistic ideas will likely walk into the new play barn at the Allgäuer Berghof with their mouth slightly agape. Because right there, nestled within the newly emerging adventure farm featuring a village square, horse stable, riding school, paddock, petting zoo, and outdoor play area, we—as playground equipment manufacturers—were able to create an indoor play world that feels like a day in the hay—only with significantly better structural stability and fewer prickly stalks.
The new play barn complements the existing indoor facilities centered around the “Quaki” and “Buddel” play areas with a high-quality two-level indoor playground, each level covering approximately 35 square meters. The levels are connected by a large climbing net structure—a two-tiered climbing net with a trampoline area, a maze level, hidden pockets serving as entrances and exits, and a secure canopy net. A wonderfully whimsical net structure where children can disappear and reappear.
The theme of chestnuts is central to the playroom’s design. Chestnuts are the little marbles of autumn—round, mysterious, and surprisingly easy to carry around. That is why an indoor playroom was created that is almost entirely dedicated to collecting, conveying, weighing, showering, transferring, and rolling these brown treasures.
There is a “bathhouse” with a chestnut shower and bathtub, a large platform area with a scale and conveyor belt, the “quality control” station with a chestnut sieve and filling station, as well as a variety of chutes with rubber buckets for transport. The chestnuts even travel from the ground floor to the upper floor via a conveyor belt—which is a huge hit with the kids.
Amid wooden troughs, collection bins, loose wooden building blocks, and small toy vehicles, a game unfolds that requires no flashing screens at all. Instead, movement, communication, and role-play emerge almost incidentally. It is precisely this kind of high-quality playground equipment that is crucial to us as a playground manufacturer: play options that do not overwhelm children with stimuli, but rather give them space to develop their own ideas.
The treehouse in the chestnut tree is also likely to be a big hit. It’s home to a mischievous squirrel that occasionally drops chestnuts—an activity that a surprising number of children watch with genuine fascination for quite some time. The indoor play area is complemented by a play kitchen with a chestnut storage area, a pulley system, an interactive play wall, wildlife feeding stations with feed troughs, and hand-carved figures of a fawn and a stag.
The play barn at the Allgäuer Berghof is a wonderful example of what modern play area design can look like today: with a clear theme, high-quality craftsmanship, and a deep passion for woodworking. Instead of generic standard modules, a custom playground was created that blends seamlessly—both architecturally and atmospherically—into the overall concept of the adventure farm.
Upstairs, the “Hot Chestnuts” area also awaits, featuring a play wagon, a miniature railway with turnouts, transparent chutes, a marble run, and other chestnut-themed stations. Children shovel, sort, transport, and build—and in the process, they almost always forget that screens even exist somewhere outside the play barn.
As playground equipment manufacturers, we believe that the true mark of a successful indoor playground is when play doesn’t need to be explained. When children begin to explore intuitively. And when parents realize, after an hour, that they’ve accidentally ended up sorting chestnuts themselves.
The new play barn at the Allgäuer Berghof is therefore much more than just another indoor playroom. It is a little world made of wood, movement, and imagination. A high-quality playroom design that takes children seriously without taking itself too seriously. And perhaps the only place where carrying chestnuts can become a real daily task.
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