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30 

years

» 

People want both: 

urban and rural quality of life. 

« 

Charles Landry

Designing 

playgrounds 

Claudia: We have been designing playgrounds 

for 30 years. Today, we are 

actually 230 people. It started with an 

idea, with the desire to be creative 

and to create interesting spaces for 

children. Today we still adhere to this 

basic idea which the company founder 

Klaus-Peter Gust originally had. 

Playgrounds for children have been 

expanded to include play areas for 

people of all ages, with and without 

restrictions. The last 30 years have 

allowed us to discover how multifaceted 

play is. With our wooden 

constructions and sculptures we want 

to provide children and adults with 

space for personal development and 

to try out the infinite facets of play. 

This is the standard we hold ourselves 

to, and which must be adapted to 

tight budgets, tight deadlines and 

other problems. Our goal is to create 

playgrounds that grow with the needs 

of users, spaces that can be changed 

and shaped. A high level of safety is of 

paramount importance to us. 

Combining these two things are 

challenges that we face every day. 

When you look at a finished 

Claudia Gust 

(Marketingleiterin) 

playground it’s no longer possible to 

see how many heads or hands went 

into creating it. The aim of this 

brochure is to introduce you to the 

people who actively shape the path 

which starts out with an initial idea 

and culminates in a playable space 

through planning, calculating, 

designing, building, testing, loading, 

assembling and repairing. We also 

take a look back at 30 years of playground 

history and talk about our 

wishes and visions for future 

playgrounds. 

SIK-Holz ® 01 

Editorial

02 SIK-Holz ® 

Advice 

» 

[…] Cities that set their 

inhabitants in motion, 

on the other hand, 

have the cheapest 

health policy. 

« 

Jan Gehl

01 Editorial 

03 Content 

04 Review 

06 Facts and Figures 

08 Philosophy 

10 Management 

12 Advice 

26 Abroad 

28 Sale 

30 construction 

32 logistic 

34 purchasing 

36 preparation 

38 Tower building 

40 sculpture 

42 coloring 

44 assembly 

46 service and administration 

48 training 

50 responsibility 

52 projects 

SIK-Holz ® Content 

56 Contact


Review 

How the cow got 

on the roof 

In 1988, the GDR was breathing its last breaths. After 

almost 40 years it had been recognised that socialism 

also wasn’t able to survive without private initiatives. 

Small businesses were promoted. And so, after 

several attempts, our two-man business (Klaus-Peter 

and Claudia Gust) also obtained a licence for a wooddesigning 

trade. 

Our company also had to work under planned economic 

conditions. The order was to produce handicraft 

products and adventure playgrounds made of wood. 

But the new course didn’t seem to work any longer. 

The GDR went bankrupt. 

In 1989, a new adventure began. The planned economy 

became the market economy. We had to explore 

the needs of the market and develop our products 

accordingly. The order from last year had left us two 

small reference playgrounds. They consisted of simple 

balancing and climbing structures as well as some 

animal sculptures made of robinia. Alongside oak, 

robinia was incidentally the only wood that could 

be used for playground equipment in the GDR, and 

it was our ticket to the West Berlin Garden Offices. 

With this material we were welcomed with open 

arms, since pressure-impregnated play equipment 

was very expensive to dispose of back then. Of course, 

there was still some scepticism about our abilities and 

compliance with standards. Our first customer was the 

Berlin-Neukölln parks department. In autumn 1990 

they ordered a dragon and a crocodile for Volkspark 

Hasenheide. 

In 1991, we made another decision that significantly 

influenced the company’s development. For the first 

time we rented a 12 m² exhibition space at FSB, an 

international fair in Köln. Our exhibit was a threeheaded 

dragon which filled the whole stand. This is 

where we first got in contact with experts from the 

playground industry who were interested in selling 

our playground equipment. Thanks to their sound 

advice as well as the increased demand for ecological 

and custom designed playgrounds, our small company 

experienced enormous growth. 

In 1995 we acquired an abandoned dairy farm. It offered 

ideal conditions to accommodate all areas of the 

company and to connect the technology we use. Today, 

two wooden cows graze on the canteen’s green 

roof as a reminder of the building’s former purpose: a 

milk collection point. These facilities soon turned out 

to be too small as well. 

In 2000 additional, disused buildings were added 

which adjoined the company premises. We have developed 

a little further with each order. We have learned 

a lot about the "green industry" and the social tasks 

associated with it from our customers. As time has 

passed we have become increasingly active on this 

front and are committed to the right to play and a 

healthy living environment in networks, associations, 

committees, trade fairs and congresses.

» 

[…] due to the increased 

demand for ecological 

and individually 

designed playgrounds 

learned we are a huge 

one growth.« 

Claudia Gust 


Advice 

Review

facts and figures 


turn over 

employees apprentice company area 

1996 

start training 

for sculptures 

2000 


for office 

communikation 

1988 

establishment 

of SIK-Holz® 

as company 

1995 

spitting and 

establishment 

SIK-Holzgestaltungs GmbH 1999 

moving 

to new 

offices 

2001 

start 

training for 

carpenter 

67.100 m2 

60.550 m2 

142 

135 

38.850 m2 

114 

33.600 m2 

2.050 m2 

1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002

SIK-Holz ® 

delivery of new play equipment 

new company premises under renovation 1995 


2009 

Special award for 

medium-sized companies, 

Oskar-Patzelt-Stiftung 

2009 

Initiative for the region, 

Bertelsmann Stiftung 

2013 

Craft price, 

Guarantee Banks 

07 

2007 

Training award, 

for the district of 

Teltow Fläming 

2010 

Committed to Brandenburg, 

Brandenburg state award 

2016 


for technical 

product designer 

2007 

Marc Oelker 

is also managing 

director 

198 

2010 

Merging of the company, 

taking over in the individual 

Company in GmbH & Co. KG 

209 

213 

226 

225 

2016 

213 

Future price, 

Brandenburg 

216 

15 Mio.€ 

167 

175 

148 

148 

136 

128 

10 Mio.€ 

5 Mio.€ 


2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 

0 Mio.€


Philosophy 

We stand for safety and quality! Quality matters to us. 

We unite visual quality, solid craftsmanship, durability, 

stability and safety in all of our products. The robinia wood 

is the perfect material for our approach. We demonstrate 

our competence, commitment and high level performance 

not just through appropriate certificates, but with every 

new exciting play ground project we can design and build 

for our clients. 

Philosophy 

We are interested in better and free play! We know 

that children want to have fun. Different constitutional, 

social and psychological conditions are important in order 

to guarantee an optimal contribution to the health- and 

wellbeing as well as personality development of a child. 

Over the last decades we have been collecting know-how 

from theory and best practice, that we better understand 

child movement, the play instinct, the value of play and 

physical and intellectual development. These are constantly 

developed and optimised in our play space concepts. 

We are the individual and creative original! The individual 

design of play equipment requires a high degree of 

flexibility and creativity from our staff. We want to preserve 

the originality created in the design and colour by taking 

some of the traditional shapes, methods and knowledge 

into account. 

We do business according to fair competition principles! 

Our world offers something for everyone. We think this is a 

good thing, and are open-minded toward our competitors. 

It matters to us, that we operate honestly, competently and 

in a client oriented manner at all times. Evidence of this can 

be seen in our long-lasting relationships with clients and 

our reliability toward them. 

We accept ethical responsibility, and advocate for the 

rights and values of children and young people. We live, 

work and play in a new eco-social environment. In order 

to be able to shape it in a proactive manner, we are operating 

in a future-oriented, environmental-friendly and 

sustainable way. We are certified with the Brandenburg 

environmental label, follow the FSC rules for responsible 

forest management and support young talents. We have a 

strong social awareness and are committed to democracy, 

social values and global responsibility.

» 

It is the game, 

and only the game, 

that makes man 

complete. 

« 

Friedrich Schiller 

SIK-Holz ® Philosophy


Two minds 

at the top of 

SIK-Holz® 

In 1988, master wood sculptor Klaus-Peter Gust had the 

idea of building play equipment from crooked robinia 

wood. He founded SIK-Holz® and grew it from an individual 

enterprise to a medium-sized business. Today he 

heads up sales and fills the order books with a whole 

team of planners, salesmen and designers. 

Marc Oelker joined the company as a project manager 

in 2001 after completing studies in wood science. The 

company's rapid growth up to that point meant that it 

urgently needed structures to implement the many play 

ideas. Today he is in charge of production. His team of 

technologists, logisticians, carpenters, sculptors and production 

planners bring to life the many ideas that the 

company comes up with and the ideas from elsewhere. 

Marc Oelker (manager) 

Management 

» 

Our customers’ 

needs are 

our challenges. 

« 

Klaus-Peter Gust

Klaus-Peter Gust (manager) 

The writer Victor Hugo once said: 

»Nothing is as powerful as an idea 

whose time has come«. The idea of 

building play equipment from 

robinia is now 30 years old. Has it 

made its mark on the market? 

Marc: Without a doubt. Klaus and Claudia 

Gust had the creative idea of building 

play equipment and themed playgrounds 

from robinia. This idea and 

simple means led to what is now a 

whole and an important market 

segment in the playground equipment 

industry, which conventional manufacturers 

of playground equipment also 

want to profit from and have to create 

their own production capacities. Many 

notice that market segments have 

shifted, that their original product ideas 

and concepts are no longer up to date. 

Over time, the SIK idea spread beyond 

the borders of Germany to Europe. At 

this point, our sales partnerships reach 

into the Far East and Down Under. 

Before SIK-Holz® was founded, there 

were only simple toys made of pressureimpregnated 

softwood or steel. That was 

the case in eastern Germany, but it was 

also the case in western Germany. 

Natural? Creative? Themed? Not a 

chance! 

Klaus: Just as we did 30 years ago, we are 

still bringing human closeness and 

warmth into the eco-social living 

environment today with our natural 

play area designs. Wood is one of the 

first materials that people discovered, 

used and designed as they engaged 

with their environment. Robinia is in 

many ways a wonderful material for 

designing children's playground 

equipment because it is especially 

resistant when used outdoors. Its 

irregularities in growth, its exciting 

grain, branches and roots give the wood 

its unique character and make it particularly 

interesting for us as play area 

designers. Our 230 employees embrace 

this 30-year tradition of custom playground 

design. Our craftsmanship 

preserves traditional working methods 

and brings themed and natural play 

worlds into the otherwise monotonously 

and functionally designed urban 

spaces. Our products look like they were 

designed by children. Sometimes it's 

fairy tales, another time it's apparently 

simple balancing structures that work 

like little wonders on children and 

adults in our often dehumanised 

environment. We counter this isolated 

cold with our loving warmth. 

A company’s values are in its 

history. As managers of SIK-Holz®, 

you have cultivated these values 

over the past 30 years and communicated 

them to your employees, 

business partners and customers. 

What is the essence of SIK-Holz® 

today and what ideas and visions 

do you have for the future? 

Klaus: SIK-Holzgestaltungs GmbH will 

continue to ensure that equality, 

justice and participation remain 

essential features of urban development. 

The use of resources must be 

sustainable and responsible, with 

innovative ideas and processes. Even 

as a medium-sized company, we can 

make a major contribution to our 

global climate. With our playground 

designs we are able to educate and 

shape people by giving them the 

opportunity to let loose their imagination, 

to move around outdoors and 

to play together. My motto: Our 

customers’ needs are our challenges 

– and we love them. My idea: Play 

outdoors in custom designed, natural 

spaces. 

Marc: Now, of course, there is competition 

too. At all trade fairs in the 

industry there are various companies 

offering robinia playground 

equipment. The market is highly 

competitive. Many companies are 

trying to jump on the bandwagon. 

The advantages are obvious: very 

natural raw materials from the region, 

natural processing, creative ideas 

paired with traditional craftsmanship, 

concepts adapted to the customer's 

wishes, high play value, excellent 

durability, the highest level of 

equipment safety. Not everyone is 

able to successfully combine these 

separate areas. As pioneers in robinia 

together we are as big as all our 

competitors together. We know what 

matters and have been operating 

successfully on the market together 

with our employees for 30 years. We 

have done a lot of things right, not 

everything, but a lot. We can be 

proud of what we have achieved. 


managemnt


Advice 

Advising operators 

and planners of 

playgrounds 

Germany has always been our largest market. Our consultants 

have many years of experience planning children's 

playgrounds or a degree in landscape architecture. In 

addition, they are certified safety specialists for children's 

playgrounds and have relevant knowledge and experience 

in handling wooden constructions. They are very flexible 

in their approach and adapt to the wishes of our customers 

and the conditions of a new eco-social environment. 

In close cooperation with our design office, our technical 

consultants develop individual solutions for a wide range 

of applications. They can fall back on tried and tested 

standards for each new task. This pool is an essential 

source for new planning. Every new creation contains a 

proportion of traditional forms, processes and knowledge. 

Custom playground development is a dynamically creative 

process based on interrelationships. Each piece is unique. 

» 

The explosion 

of unlimited 

possibilities is 

followed by the 

implosion of 

their control. 

« 

Kurt Weidemann

Jens Schmieding-Borgsen 

(consultant Westfalen) 

Martin Heumüller 

(consultant Sieg/ Rhein/ Ruhr) 

Rita Strautmann 

(Backoffice) 

Anne Kortomeikel 

(Backoffice) 

Ulrike Gebauer 

(consultant Hessen/ Pfalz) 

Antje Gries 

(distribution manager) 

Bielefeld 

Salzkotten 

Breuberg 

Heidelberg 

Ulrich Probst-Schneidereit 

(consultant Germany/ north) 

Burgwedel 

Freising 

Kornelia Schneidereit 

(Backoffice) 

Leipzig 

Berlin 

Lisa Ottmann 

(Backoffice) 

Patrick Chiraux 

(consultant Germany/ north/ east) 

Christina Bergsteiner 

(consultant Bavaria) 

Alida Petrov 

(consultant Germany/ east/ south) 

Carla Jaekel 

(Backoffice) 


Advice 

Valeria Eremina 

(consultant Baden-Württemberg)


Playground 

in the colloquium 

playgrounds in urban areas 

A new playground shall be built here! 

Advice 

Mostly these are places with old, partly 

rudimentary playground equipment, or 

›unspaces‹ which haven’t been taken 

care of for a long time. It can also be a 

›small moonscape‹ in a newly built 

residential area, which according to the 

land use plan is intended as a free 

space for children's play and meeting 

place for all generations. 

Which of this places present the 

greatest challenges for you? 

Ulrich: »Unspaces or non-places, both new 

and old, are always a challenge. It might 

also be an existing playground where only 

one piece of equipment or area is to be 

renewed. If you can spark something that 

makes old things attractive again or define 

a new place that children, or best of all, 

everyone wants to go to, that is the best 

confirmation and my personal concern.« 

Jens: »Playgrounds in new development 

areas without a definite structure, without 

design or historical references, are always a 

special task. Technically speaking it is more 

difficult to plan in detail, but developing a 

functional and attractive concept out of 

nothing is usually the greater challenge.« 

Ulrike: »On one hand it’s places in an 

existing building where the distances to 

fixed installations, terraces, walls, 

boulders, etc. must be observed, perhaps 

there are still trees to be preserved too. 

And the other is large open spaces without 

any structures which one can design play 

areas around. As a planner both cause me 

to scratch my head.« 

Christina: »Every place is unique. Just like 

the people, who will (re-)conquer them in 

the future. This includes places that are on 

a busy road, a wooded area or a slope for 

instance. The existing or missing tree 

population and the neighbourhood are 

also individual. Existing devices must be 

integrated and new wishes fulfilled. I see 

the challenge in reconciling all prevailing 

conditions, wishes, feelings and moods 

and creating the best possible design.« 

Alida: »It gets tricky when the space is very 

small and you still have to create a lot of 

play opportunities.«

What basic questions do you ask the 

operator of the future playground? 

Christina: »During on-site meetings, 

questions regarding size, environment, 

location and terrain modelling are often 

cleared up. Also important is the target 

group, which play functions are desired 

and which direction the design should 

take. And if a subsequent extension 

should be possible and which kind of fall 

protection is required. Should the terrain 

be further modelled or is a new tree 

population planned? It is helpful to draw 

up a checklist of further aspects, such as 

covering an underground car park, which 

need to be decided. The question of 

budget and installation must of course be 

included in case of realistic further 

planning.« 

Patrick: »Besides the user groups, the play 

value, theme and budget I always ask if 

there are experiences with vandalism on 

site, if they have own ideas or examples 

and how we should present our 

creations.« 

playgrounds in landscape areas 

» 

Every place is unique. 

Just like the people, 

who will reconquer them 

in the future. 

« 

Alida: »What the general conditions are: 

Playground size, number of children, age 

groups, soil conditions, access, the 

financial framework. What is important to 

the client? Is there already a topic 

perhaps? What is the time frame for 

completion?« 

Valeria: »Usually I listen to the customer 

first. Their ideas and desires are the initial 

indicators. Then it is about how possible it 

is to make these ideas and desires a 

reality. The size of the playground, target 

groups and budget are further questions.« 

Christina Bergsteiner 


Advice


Advice 

Are there generally planning steps 

between the first meeting with the 

customer and submitting a binding 

offer? 

Ulrich: »Planning begins during the conversation 

with the customer. In the ensuing 

appraisal, in addition to topographical 

conditions and signs of use, special 

features of the site, such as access routes, 

hiding places, walking routes, atmosphere 

can be identified – here the planning 

continues in the mind. The best case 

scenario is when you can already see the 

result. The appraisal is put to paper. This is 

followed by searching for a concept and 

refining the idea. Can you use tried and 

tested creations? Were there projects with 

similar questions, similar topics or only 

similar play offerings? If available, it is 

coordinated with the actual situation. A 

solution can be found by drawing in scale 

and perspective. A budget comparison 

takes place at the same time. The design is 

forwarded to costing. The result is 

compared with the planning and an offer 

drawing is drawn up.« 

Ulrike: »After evaluating the site I sketch a 

draft, create a checklist which my 

colleague in the office uses to put together 

the offer. Usually I convert the design 

sketch into a drawing as the offer is being 

prepared; the floor plan in Photoshop, the 

views and perspectives by hand. Along 

with the offer and the drawings, the 

customer receives also an explanatory text, 

possibly product sheets and sample photos 

as well as the description of our workmanship 

and our voluntary manufacturer's 

guarantee.« 

classical combination for children from 3 – 6 years, variant: witches cottage and post 

» 

Planning begins 

during the 

conversation with 

the customer. 

« 

Ulrich Probst-Schneidereit 

Jens: »Working systematically is definitely 

the key to creating a design that promises 

success. The customer's wishes must be 

taken down in as much detail as possible, 

the idea for implementation must then be 

prepared in drawings and then calculated. 

Presenting the result in a visually 

appealing way is part of it too, of course.«

Do custom solutions always offer 

benefits or are there standards which 

have proved their worth? 

Ulrich: »Always? Not always but more and 

more often. Basically almost always. But I 

have to say yes to the second part of that 

question. Of course, there are standards 

that have proven themselves, not least for 

this reason they have been selected (not 

downgraded) as standard equipment. This 

question touches on the essence of our 

brand: We want to offer creative, individual 

and high-quality playground 

concepts. It is important to us to maintain 

our level of quality and to provide sound 

professional advice. We don't want to sell 

at any price. Instead, it is our goal to sell 

the right product. We look at the bigger 

picture and don’t want to just fill an area 

with random bits of equipment. 

Due to the material we use, our product is 

individually handcrafted. This is expensive 

and costs customers more money. In 

return, however, they have the great 

advantage that we can react flexibly to 

wishes and specific requirements. This 

may begin with the colour design, the 

installation of on-site slides, the replacement 

of elements or a changed orientation 

in response to local surface sizes, changed 

post lengths, or even combinations of 

different systems, newly assembled 

elements. Occasionally something new has 

to be developed for special projects. The 

balance is essential. Sometimes it's a little 

trick that makes the facility special and can 

create an identity for a playground.« 

Christina: »Buying an item of clothing is a 

similar situation. Sometimes it fits, the 

quality is great and you like it right away. 

Other times you have to combine 

something in a new way and put it 

together differently. Places and the people 

who use them sometimes also need a fully 

custom design and well-adapted layout to 

suit everyone, to be exciting and 

coherent.« 


Advice 

individually desinged ›Viking‹ playground‹ (Design: Anke Meixner


Advice 

Public playgrounds vs. playgrounds for 

nurseries and schools! 

The number of childcare services for 

children in nurseries and schools in 

Germany has increased over the last 10 

years. Outdoor play areas are particularly 

important in these facilities. One 

could conclude from this that public 

playgrounds were scaled back in favour 

of supervised playgrounds. Is this trend 

also reflected in your work? 

Ulrike: »I couldn’t say. Especially as playgrounds 

in kindergarten and school are 

often funded differently to public playgrounds. 

However, public playgrounds do 

get knocked down if there are only a few 

young families with children living in the 

residential area. The better thing to do 

would be, to redesign places like these to 

be inclusive. Though often there just isn’t 

the money for it.« 

Christina: »Playgrounds compete with 

residential development. They won't 

disappear completely. However, a 

reduction or relocation is discussed and 

sometimes implemented. It is becoming 

increasingly common to leave play areas 

and playgrounds on school grounds open 

even after school hours and at weekends. 

I think that’s a sensible idea.« 

›mobile construction site‹ for flexible game 

Martin: »In some cities, playgrounds are no 

longer in use. Some cities or municipalities 

sell these areas, some do not. When I talk 

to a municipal employee about this 

planning direction, I always ask them to 

consider the consequences when these 

areas are sold. In most cases, however, this 

approach has already been decided by the 

council. Of the many small playgrounds a 

large proportion disappear due to maintenance 

reasons arising from cost-cutting 

measures. These spaces are combined into 

one large, better or well-equipped main 

attraction in the neighbourhood. Funding 

measures such as the funding for nursery 

schools a few years ago or the latest ›Good 

School 2020‹ scheme encourage playgrounds 

in such facilities to be renewed. 

Often it is only due to the fact that is called 

for by someone in the facilities who takes 

care of it.« 

truss building site with building blocks of cork 

» 

It would be better, 

to redesign public 

playgrounds than 

to dismantle them. 

« 

Ulrike Gebauer

Has the quality of outdoor play areas 

offered by these facilities also increased 

with the quantitative increase in the 

number of childcare facilities? 

Jens: »Although the range of services has 

been expanded, the areas available for 

playground equipment have usually 

remained the same, if not even shrunk 

due to extensions. In this respect, there is 

often only room for the installation of 

additional, easily accessible devices if old 

devices are removed at the same time. 

Unfortunately, the conversion of existing 

playground equipment is often neither 

sensible nor economically appealing.« 

Patrick: »I often feel that extensions are 

necessary and desired, but the available 

space remains limited.« 

Ulrike: »Absolutely! Parents in particular 

consider it very important that their 

children receive good support at a very 

early age. Often the financing is also 

supported by a parents' association.« 

multi unit ›Snail shell‹ with wide variety of playing possibilities 

Martin: »Often it's because there's someone 

there who maintains it and calls for it. The 

end quality is often due to the personal 

strength, attitude and taste of these 

people. Usually these are the leaders, 

directors and often also funding associations. 

If these people or groups of people 

are strong and committed, the quality 

improves significantly. If they rely solely 

on the carrier or operator, the basic 

equipment has to do.« 

Antje: »Many facilities rely on long-lasting 

quality with low maintenance requirements. 

The managers of these facilities are 

happy to be reassured by the competent 

and customer-oriented advice on the 

phone and on site.« 


Advice 

play and climbing offers for schoolyards


Everywhere is a play area! 

Play should not be restricted to 

dedicated places and facilities. 

However, play area networking 

competes with urban traffic areas. 

play and adventure places in the forest 

» 

Path-accompanying 

play points can 

only be installed in 

protected areas. 

« 

Ulrike Gebauer 

What opportunities do you see for 

pioneering play areas? Are there any 

model projects you have planned? 

Advice 

Ulrich: »Playground equipment does not 

feature prominently in networking. Mostly 

it is a matter of area design and safe road 

crossings. There is certainly still a lot of 

potential for play to be developed in 

urban environments. But city planners 

don't like to see their promenades 

'disturbed' by play islands that stick out 

like a sore thumb. The contrast could have 

an invigorating effect. If everything is 

straight and geometric, it can seem not 

only large but also monotonous. At best, 

oases are created that attract everyone 

where the purpose-built, effective world 

does not dominate for once. But that’s 

more of a vision than a reality.« 

Christina: »I see this as an opportunity to 

perceive and experience places anew, for 

all ages. Walking carefully over a 

balancing beam, jumping over a few 

bollards and making it down the final 

straight can bring us all joy and draw our 

attention to something new. Children use 

every opportunity offered (if they are not 

prevented from doing so) to make their 

path more interesting and not just to take 

the well-trodden paths. In my opinion 

encouraging them to do this is a great 

idea.«

Jens: »In the inner-city, urban context, I see 

hardly any opportunities without 

dismantling a significant portion of 

existing infrastructure. Creating and 

networking green spaces is a fantastic 

idea, but the required space is usually not 

available. The residential trend is also 

currently returning more strongly to the 

city – with corresponding pressure on the 

housing market and also on the already 

sparse availability of inner-city open 

spaces. This will certainly not change 

fundamentally in the foreseeable future. 

Urban development and traffic planning 

would clearly be in demand here in order 

to create fundamentally more attractive 

inner-city recreation areas in the city as a 

living space. In out-of-town, rural areas, 

such concepts are more likely to be found 

in the areas of tourism and local recreation. 

The networking of green areas, local 

recreation areas etc. is often seen as a 

contribution to environmental protection 

in the sense of actively encouraging 

pedestrian and bike traffic. Hopener 

Waldpfad/City of Lohne, for example, has 

various play points along a local recreational 

trail in the forest of the town of 

Lohne. "Play and recreational elements 

are spread over approximately 3 kilometres 

in the forest.« 

inclusive giant carousel 

balancing over water 

Ulrike: »Of course the possibility of networking 

play points and exciting places for 

children does exist. However, these 

pioneering play points can only be 

installed in protected areas, which must 

also be controlled and maintained. For 

this reason, inquiries of this kind are few 

and far between. Instead, nature trails are 

equipped with playground equipment to 

accompany them.« 

accompanying climbing offer 

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Advice 

Ulrike: »Sonnenstraße playground in 

Waldaschaff. There are two climbing and 

balancing areas with different levels of 

difficulty for all age groups connected 

over a large area. The play value is very 

high, the grass design appealing and was 

very well received.« 

Jens: »The combine harvester and the 

climbing tractor are my favourites. I would 

like to build a big playground based on 

the theme of agriculture. From yesterday 

to today and how tomorrow's agriculture 

can be made sustainable.« 

Patrick: »Hafencity playground in Hamburg. 

I'm weak on the subject of the ›South 

Seas‹. I probably associate that with sun, 

warmth, brightness, sea, delicious seafood 

and a relaxed atmosphere.«

Martin: »Playground in Bonn am Hölder: 

›A castle for little princes and princesses‹. 

A beautiful result with a lot of play 

options, high recreational value and 

appealing design.« 

Valeria: »My favourite product from our 

range is the ›Cat‹ climbing and balancing 

frame. This piece of equipment looks very 

modern and contemporary. It has a varied 

structure and can be played on by many 

children at the same time.« 

Alida: »I find the jungle playground in Berlin 

Zehlendorf very exciting and versatile. A huge 

area in which the diverse elements are 

cleverly connected – sculptures, playhouses, 

tree houses, climbing caves, cable cars and 

much more.« 


Advice


Advice 

Antje: »The three Phoenix playgrounds 

around Lake Phoenix in Dortmund. We’ve 

visited them several times with our 

children. You can climb up and swing in 

the clouds, and the lake is in sight the 

whole time. Ideal for Sunday strolls.« 

Ulrich: »I can't give you a straight answer to 

that question. Every exciting topic is a 

temporary favourite project. I consistently 

like climbing forests, because I would have 

liked to have them myself on playgrounds 

of the 70s.« 

Christina: »The playground at the main 

square in Pfaffenhofen. I am delighted to 

see with every visit how well this playground 

in the middle of the city between 

the town hall and the church is used by all 

age groups.«

Carmen Engel 

(consultant for camping 

and leisure industry) 

maritim playground on a camp site 

Camping, gastro 

and tourism 

In addition to public playgrounds, there are also many 

playgrounds in the leisure industry operated by companies. 

This includes theme parks and campsites as well as 

hotels and pubs. These are looked after by Carmen Engel 

at SIK-Holz®. Her customers particularly appreciate her 

products because their individuality gives each company 

its own character. Every piece of play equipment is an investment. 

The play value of each product is determined. 

The companies examine carefully whether a higher customer 

satisfaction can be achieved through an attractive 

playground. Carmen not only advises her clients on playground 

design, she also networks them with each other 

and passes on experience in other areas. Carmen has the 

most relaxed customers. Time and again she hears, »We 

work where others go on holiday.« And where does Carmen 

Engel go on holiday? Campsites of course! 

›Woodlodge‹ tree houses in an adventure parc 

» 

Play is as 

necessary to 

human life 

as rest. 

« 

Thomas von Aquin 


Advice


abroad 

Playgrounds 

around the world 

Our products can be found at many playgrounds worldwide. 

This gives an insight into the play culture of other 

countries and allows a comparison with the German market. 

It is evident that Germany provides the impetus to 

promote play in a natural environment and with natural 

materials. Other countries are becoming increasingly interested 

in this. In most Western and Southern European 

countries we have established long-term partnerships and 

carried out interesting projects. But also in Northern Africa 

and in the Far East the interest in our playground equipment 

and sculptures is increasing significantly. 

» 

Play is 

the way 

children learn 

about 

the world 

they live in. 

« 

Maxim Gorki


abroad


Sale 

The best value 

for money 

at a glance 

Our company does not live from what it plans and 

produces, but from what it sells! This might sound a 

bit harsh and is diametrically opposed to all emotional 

and creative considerations about our products. 

But what use are all good playground planning and 

playground designs when they are not needed? The 

market economy principle of supply and demand is 

reflected in the processes of our sales department. 

Our customers find out about our services through 

the advice of our sales representatives, our brochures 

and our website. 

The demand can reach our sellers in different ways: 

The customer calls, the consultant takes up the request, 

an invitation to tender or a competition is 

sent by post or email. The requests range from clear 

and simple to complex and complicated. Our sales 

staff have to carefully handle day-to-day business, 

always aiming to turn the offer into an order and the 

order into a deal which both sides are satisfied with 

» 

If the sale turns 

into an encounter 

between customer 

and seller, 

both are satisfied. 

« 

Alfred Rademacher

Nicole Becker 

(Germany/ Westfalen, 

Belgium, Luxemburg) 

Susann Klingner 

(Germany/ Sieg, Rhein, Ruhr, 

Spain, Italy, Poland) 

Carolin Borowka 

(Germany/ Hessen, Pfalz, 

France) 

Stefan Falkenberg 

(sales manager) 

Manuela Bartlick 

(Germany/ Baden-Württemberg, 

abroad outside Europe) 

Nadine Menne 

(Germany/ north, 

other abroad) 


Sarina Nitsche 

(Germany/ Bavaria, 

Netherland) 

Jenna Koch 

Germany/ north, east, 

Austria, Switzerland) 

Benjamin Schreinicke 

(Germany/ south, east, 

Great Britain, Ireland, 

Scandinavia) 


Sale

30 SIK-Holz ® 

Marcus Rippl (2. f. l.) and his team 

construction 

Drawings of 

the craziest 

ideas 

Our builders and designers design new play equipment 

and playgrounds every day. In addition to design and play 

value, the safety of the devices is always a primary concern. 

As in sales, tasks can range from clear and simple to complex 

and complicated. 

The way the equipment is built must be considered as early 

as the offer or competition phase, the reason for this is to 

produce a great idea and also to ensure that all safety-relevant 

requirements are met. Often a sketch is sufficient for 

offers and competitions. However, a sketch is not sufficient 

for a thorough calculation. 

In addition, in most cases there is only a narrow time 

window for developing and adapting a new piece of play 

equipment or for drawing up a complete playground plan. 

The standards of how the objects look have also increased. 

Since children and adults from the public are involved 

in the planning of playgrounds, the submitted competition 

presentations must not only impress with their play 

value and quality, but they must also reach the viewer 

emotionally. 

Approximately every 4th Offer and every 4th competition 

eventually becomes an order. Then everything has to be 

thought through in depth, agreed on and put down on 

paper. Without a carefully planned design and detailed 

drawings, our custom designed play equipment cannot be 

built to the expected standard. 

For this reason, in addition to creativity and knowledge of 

engineering, organisational talent is also required in our 

drawing office.

» 

Content precedes design. 

Design in the absence of content 

is not design, it's decoration. 

« 

SIK-Holz ® construction 

Jeffrey Zeldmann


(standing f.l.t.r.) Olaf Waas (coordination), Andreas Lust (logistic), Isabell Grundmann (coordination), 

Steffen Meister (scheduler), Annelie Falticzka (assembly manager), (sitting f.l.t.r.) Gerd Müller (technologist), 

Ulf Briesenick (produktion manager), Bernd Winkelmann (documentation) 

Planning and 

grafting until 

everyone is 

satisfied 

logistic 

The idea of a piece of play equipment still doesn’t take 

material form. In principle, a flow production must be 

organised. Even though SIK-Holz® doesn’t have any 

assembly lines, of course. It is much more of an objectrelated 

process in which machines and workstations are 

passed through in a fixed sequence according to the required 

steps. For us that is the wood yard/cutting, tower 

construction or sculpture, for some products this includes 

a metalworking shop and finally the colouring process. 

These processes must be planned according to working 

hours for the respective departments and the purchasing 

department orders the necessary parts for the specified 

delivery date. 

We have a custom manufacture process, so we don’t produce 

equipment to stock. For this reason delivery times are 

usually 6–8 weeks. Bigger projects take longer to plan. Of 

course, our employees try to take special customer wishes 

into account. This means constantly coordinating planning 

and communicating with customers and suppliers. 

These are essentially the processes which come before 

production. The post-production processes must also be 

organised in advance and always adapted to the agreed 

delivery date. This includes shipping and installation. 

Since the assembly stage depends on the weather, postponing 

is not uncommon. In recent years, it was less the 

frost that filled our warehouse than the torrential rain in 

summer that repeatedly flooded construction sites.

» 

Give me six hours 

to chop down a tree 

and I will spend the first four 

with sharpening the axe. 

« 

Abraham Lincoln 


logistic


Turning 

robinia into 

play worlds 

André Schrape by acquiring large oak trunks 

Detlef Henze drives 70.000 km robinia wood annually to SIK-Holz ® 

Robinia (Germany) 

Natural fences – robinia 

(from Eastern Europe and France) 

Robinia-timber 

(Eastern Europe) 

more than 

8.000 m3 wood 

annually 

André Schrape is our wood buyer. Every 

year he buys approx. 8000 m³ of wood. 

Oak (Germany) 

75 % 25 % 

purchasing 

André, you studied forestry. You're well 

connected in the forestry industry. The 

well-being of our forests is close to 

your heart. What about the sustainable 

management of robinia forests in 

Germany and Europe? 

André: »Anyone who thinks robinia is a 

shade tolerant tree that leaves its existence 

in the shade is very wrong. In my opinion, 

it is equivalent to our current economic 

tree species. It has already established 

itself sustainably in Europe and its 

potential is also attracting increasing 

attention in Germany. The largest robinia 

growing regions are Hungary and 

Romania. But there are also very good and 

considerable stocks here in Germany. 

Brandenburg has the largest area of 

robinia in Germany. Nevertheless, confidence 

in its global economic viability is 

still in its infancy – wrongly so. We should 

place our trust in robinia, get to know its 

advantages and, together with playground 

operators, lay the foundation for sustainable 

cooperation. My goal is to build 

long-term business relationships with the 

potential and knowledge of a globally 

operating company. ›Think globally – act 

locally‹!« 

2 % 

Robinia and Natural fences 

80 % 20 % 

75 % 25 % 

Timber Oak 

installed into play equipment 

sold as firewood 

own usage firewood

Silvia Möhle (warehouse manager) und Torsten Rose (purchasing manager) 

Slides, 

swings and 

seesaws 

Torsten Rose is our purchasing manager 

Torsten, you are responsible for buying 

the things that make playgrounds even 

more interesting. At SIK-Holz®, this 

task requires a great deal of technical 

understanding, creativity and organisational 

talent. What criteria do our 

suppliers have to meet? 

Torsten: »The procurement, storage and 

provision of all purchases in our company 

form a complex unit. This is why there is 

close cooperation between the purchasing 

manager and the warehouse manager. 

This requires careful selection and cooperation 

with appropriate suppliers. These 

must meet several criteria in order to meet 

our standards and our expectations. The 

basic prerequisite is an appropriate GS 

certification, which guarantees quality, 

reliability, adherence to delivery dates 

and, last but not least, flexibility. Great 

care is also taken to constantly check and 

negotiate prices for purchased parts with 

our suppliers and to compare prices with 

other suppliers. This is the only way to 

ensure cost savings. We currently have 16 

main suppliers, which are reassessed 

annually as part of our quality management 

system and approved by the 

management. Most of these suppliers have 

been partners of our company for many 

years and we have an excellent professional 

relationship with them.« 


purchasing


Marco Methner (left) and the wood yard team 

Marco Methner (left) and the grindery team 

Check each piece 

of wood for quality 

and use 

preparation 

Our playground equipment and sculptures have a very 

high degree of vertical integration. SIK-Holz® has three 

teams available for preparation. First of all, the bucked 

logs are arranged in the log yard according to diameter 

and length. There are separate storage areas for wood 

with FSC© or PEFC© certification. The log yard team uses 

heavy machinery to remove individual logs from the pile 

for the specific job. Having good visual judgement is needed 

for this task. Can this trunk become a palm tree? Is 

that enough to make seat bollards? The available resources 

are used conscientiously; what’s left over is collected up 

and sold as firewood. Using trailers, the prepared logs are 

passed on to the sanding team for each order. 

Here, the logs are first debarked with a high-pressure 

cleaner, then planed smooth and finally sorted into piles 

by job. The third team in the preparation phase is the cutting 

team. This is where the real heart of a carpenter beats. 

The milled wood is cut to SIK-Holz® standard dimensions 

and quality using a band saw, jointer and planer. The 

processed timber is glued to boards or placed in cantilever 

racks. The next departments in the chain – tower construction, 

sculpture and assembly – can then take what they 

need from the carts and cantilever racks.

Marco Methner (right) and the cutting team 

» 

Wood is just 

a one-syllable 

word, but it 

represents a 

world full of 

beauty and 

wonder. 

« 

37 preparation 

Theodor Heuss


Eik Vetter (above middle) and the tower builder team 1+2 

Tower building 

Children’s dreams 

made of 

robinia wood 

In the tower construction department, the prepared timber 

is not only constructed into towers. Ships, volcanoes, 

planets, climbable dinosaurs, oversized squid, snails, 

chestnuts, acorns and much more have already left the 

workshops. Small objects such as playhouses, swings and 

seating groups are built here too. Our tower builders are 

highly qualified and experienced carpenters and joiners. 

They work in four large workshops, each in small 

teams. It is a kind of nest production with corresponding 

specialisations for different groups of playground equipment. 

Large playground elements are usually completely 

assembled once, that’s to say that any bridges, nets and 

ropes, entrances and exits are all fitted. The complete system 

is then dismantled to a transportable size. 

It is always impressive to watch how pieces of play 

equipment spring up in these halls. Walking through the 

workshops, despite the noisy chainsaws, you can feel a 

certain peace, concentration and joy in your work. Although 

the production drawings specify the basic design of 

the devices, the details are based on a wealth of experience 

in working to a standard. This skill is taught as part 

of regular training courses 

.

» 

The genius of design lies in 

simplicity. Anybody can build 

complicated things. 

« 

Sergej P. Koroljow 

Eik Vetter (above right) and the tower builder team 3+4 


Tower building


Oliver Recknagel (middle) and the sculpture team 

Creating 

playmates 

out of wood 

sculpture 

Day by day sculptures for public spaces are created by the 

qualified hands of our wood sculptors. With craftsmanship 

and artistic talent they make each piece of wood unique. 

Workshop manager Oliver Recknagel and his team are literally 

carved from hardwood. Using chainsaws every day 

requires a lot of strength and concentration. Conversely, 

fine motor skills are important for the detail work. The spatial 

sense which the craftsmen have is remarkable. 

They practically see the sculpture in the wood, expose it 

piece by piece and breathe life into it. Horses and dragons, 

giraffes and elephants, crocodiles and seals, but also small 

animals, such as caterpillars and snails in 100x magnification, 

are among the most popular playmates on our 

playgrounds. As it happens, about 400 small and bigger 

feathery animals leave the sculptor's workshop every year. 

Entire signage systems for cultural and natural areas are 

designed here at the customer's request or according to our 

own templates. 

A good third of the team at SIK-Holz® has completed a 

three-year training as a wood sculptor. This training ensures 

the high quality of our hand-crafted products.

» 

Sculpture is 

the art of 

the hole and 

the lumps, 

the art of 

representing 

shapes in the 

play of light and 

shadow. 

« 

Auguste Rodin 


sculpture


Tommi Gellert (above right) and the painter team 1 

Marina Möbius (down) and the painter team 2 

coloring 

A lick of paint 

»The colours are actions of the light, [...]« Goethe writes 

in his book Theory of Colours. Without colours, something 

would remain hidden from our eyes. The character of a 

piece of play equipment or a sculpture is expressed in the 

structure and colour of the surface. Bringing brightness 

and joy to public spaces with colours is a creative process. 

This can have a different depths, from a red roof to a colourful 

bird. Having a fine touch and attention to detail 

is necessary for every step when designing colours for our 

products. 

Our employees in the colouring department bring both. 

The colouring process is carried out in two different halls. 

Through a several-stage process, small sculptures and objects 

are primed, painted and waxed by Marina Möbius 

with her colleagues Swetlana Lemp and Sara Buruguru. 

A dextrous hand is required to emphasise the facial expressions 

and gestures of the objects with small strokes. 

Tommi Gellert and his team turn large, complex systems 

into colour. Here you don't just paint with a brush. The 

surfaces are also sprayed or several coats are blurred together 

to achieve large-scale effects, such as a climbing 

forest with coloured birch trunks. Finally, everything is 

carefully tied up, packed and made ready for the journey 

to the playground.

» 

I don't mind 

if you even think 

you feel the colour; 

it'll only enhance 

its own qualities. 

« 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

SIK-Holz ® FarbGebung


assembly and service teams 

In any weather 

and in any place 

assembly 

Moving a volcano from Langenlipsdorf to Auvergne in France 

is a technical and mechanical challenge. Our assembly teams 

are to the task. They are usually entrusted with the construction 

of complicated, multi-part systems. Our assembly team 

members have many years of experience in handling our 

products and know how to solve even the most awkward 

situations on poorly organised building sites. 

They are able to capably operate any kind of technology 

rented for the building site. The weather doesn’t hold them 

back either. They work outside as long as the ground isn’t 

frozen. Our assembly team regularly take part in external 

and internal training courses in order to understand all aspects 

of the playground with regard to standards, children's 

playing behaviour and the design of the playground equipment. 

They are also able to guide hands-on construction 

sites when it comes to involving people in the design of their 

living environment. Patience and pedagogical skills are also 

required here.

» 

Curiosity is 

the key 

to solving 

a problem. 

« 

Galileo Galilei 


assembly


(vfl.t.r) Heike Bloch (accounting), Madeleine Hentsch (assistence), 

Sylvia Unkrodt (finance management), Nancy Küster (personnal management) 

Lysann Dümichen (service-center) 

Thomas Lupa (quality management) 

Organise, 

improvise, 

supply and 

manage 

Lothar Paeth (IT-management) 

Service and administration 

Service and administration are two areas that are not directly 

related to our products. However, they ensure on a 

large scale that all other departments can work smoothly. 

The service essentially comprises the areas of building and 

facility management and metalworking. Here everything 

is repaired and restored in-house, grid tunnel welded 

and periscopes are built manufactured as well. Part of the 

operational service is also arranging break times. 

Accounting is a central part of the administration. This is 

where the successes are calculated and the staff organised, 

as well as communication with the management. Two 

more of our company’s key departments are quality and 

information management. Without them, the company 

would come to a standstill or sink into chaos. All inquiries 

are dealt with competently and in a friendly manner in 

our headquarters and forwarded to the right place.

Jochen Gerlach and 

Heinz Lehmann (mechanics) 

Heidrun Fiebler (canteen) 

» 

Before one suspects disarray, 

one shall examine, 

how chaos is organised. 

« 

Horst Reiner Menzel 

Jürgen Stech and Ralf Heinzel (building) , (right) Michael Maßmann 

(operational service manager) 


Service and administration 

Karsten Bloch (facility manager)


(right) Nancy Küster (trainer) with apprentices from sales and construction office 

(mi 

training 

Training as a 

foundation 

By training young people, we enable them to shape their 

own lives and those of the community. For 22 years we 

have been training young people as skilled workers in 

four trades. Every year SIK-Holz® trains carpenters, wood 

sculptors, office management staff and technical product 

designers. A trainer is responsible for the quality of the 

practical training for each trade and works together with 

the respective vocational school. 86 young people have 

taken their first steps into their professional lives here over 

the last 22 years. 

Almost every second trainee was taken on. Some are 

further qualified in the company as business economists, 

master craftsmen or study for bachelor's degree. 

Wood sculptors in particular have received many awards 

with their diplomas in the past. All these awards are a 

testament to the excellent training at SIK-Holz®. The 

achievements of the young employees are now reflected 

in many wood designs in playgrounds and urban spaces 

in Germany and around the world. 

During training, the apprentices pass through various departments 

in the company and become familiar with the 

sale, design or manufacture of playground equipment according 

to their level of training. At the end of the training, 

each apprentice is also a 100% employee.

ddle) David Strauss (master) with apprentices of carpenters 

» 

The greatest masters 

are those, 

who never cease 

to be disciples. 

« 

Ignaz Anton Demeter 

technical 

product designer 

office manager 

carpenter 

sculptores 

22 

apprentice 

2017 

(middle) Bastian Tabert (master) with apprentices of sculptores 

10 x 

National winners 

9 x sculptores 

1 x office manager 

3 x 

1 x 2 x 

State winners 

6 x sculptores 


training


Smart use of 

resources 

upcycling on the playground – adding new elements to the stock 

renovated rainbow-playground in Mauerpark/ Berlin 

» 

Sustainability is 

considering the end 

in everything you do. 

« 

Erik Schweitzer 

responsibility 

Sustainable management means taking responsibility for 

the people who work for us, for the resources we use, for 

the region we live in and for the market we operate in. 

We do this in many different ways. Having social responsibility 

for our employees doesn’t just mean paying them 

a decent wage on time. The 'Stay healthy' and 'Stay clean' 

schemes for instance ensure awareness while also improving 

the working atmosphere and conditions. 

Our main resource is robinia wood. We are certified according 

to the guidelines of FSC© and PEFC©. With these 

certificates we are able to prove the entire material flow 

and support sustainable forestry. As a rule, we look at the 

shortest transport routes when choosing our suppliers.

Social 

responsibility 

At 13 locations around the world, young people from different 

countries built a rainbow-shaped piece of play equipment 

in craft camps lasting several weeks under the guidance of 

Klaus-Peter Gust. These rainbows are a sign of hope in places 

of separation and destruction. Many people who took part are 

still in contact today. Some rainbows have found godparents 

and have been restored. They are pieces of play equipment 

but also bridges that connect us with other people and cultures. 

[www.regenbogenproject.de] 

We support many social and cultural projects throughout 

Germany by donating gifts in kind and money. We are connected 

with the primary school in our community by a long, 

close sponsorship scheme for one class each from 3rd to 6th 

grade. We are an active member of various organisations and 

networks that are committed to the education of children and 

the design of their living spaces. 

play action with our school class 

Worldplayday with radio Teddy and SIK-Holz ® 

Building benches with refugees 

Building a circle of values with regional groups 


responsibility

projects 

52 SIK-Holz ®

» 

A city is worth living in, 

if it respects human scale. 

If people are out about 

and its streets and 

squares are of a manageable 

scale so that people can come 

together in them. 

This epitomises the basic 

concept of a city. 

« 


Advice 

Jan Gehl


» 

Urban creativity can only 

be created and maintained, 

if change is understood 

as a dynamic process - 

and not in the sense of 

change with 

a fixed goal. 

« 

projects 

Graft Architekten

projects 

SIK-Holz ® 55

Image directory 


pictures S.10/11 © Anja Bastian 

picture S.37 r.o. © Kamilla Born Frost 

country maps S. 13, 29, 27 © FreeVectorMaps.com 

playground index: 

title front u.l. reach for the sky – Anjō/ Japan; S.01 v.l.n.r. adventure forest – München; rocket-playground – Bremerhaven; S.02/03 v.l.n.r. cloud-playground 

– Magdeburg; tree house worlds – Nürnberg; volcano– Nürnberg; church-Pavilion – Premnitz; slavs-playground – Havelberg; S.09 u.l. sea bridge-playground 

– Timmendorf; S.12/13 v.l.n.r. picuteres-playground – Berlin; music-playground – Mohnheim; mill-playground – Magdeburg; grasses-playground – Wittenberg; 

S.26/27 v.l.n.r. reach for the sky – Jerusalem/ Israel; don quijote – Hernares/ Spanien; acorn-playground – Chasse-sur-Rhône/ Frankreich; afrika-playground 

– Itzig/ Luxemburg; dschungle-obervation-plattforms – Åalborg/ Dänemark; beach-playground – Sopot/ Polen; elefant-playground – Seoul/ Südkorea; toddlerplayground 

– Kobe/ Japan; S.28/29 v.l.n.r. sweden-playground – Berlin; grasses-playground – Wittenberg; meduse – Sellin; squirrel-playground – Nürnberg; 

helicopter – Nürnberg; S.52/53 v.u.l.n.r.o. gold digger city – Berlin; taka-tuka-land – Bremen; dinobaby – Bremerhaven; town of children – Jaén/ Spanien; zoo on 

sea – Bremerhaven; 1001 night – Berlin; knight-playground – Haren; S.54/55 v.o.l.n.r.u. arc-Nürnberg; pirates-playground – Salzgitter; each for the sky – Dortmund; 

dino-playground – Magdeburg; grasses-playground – Wittenberg; police-playground – Nürnberg; sweden-playground – Berlin; title inside back v.o.n.u 

ufo-playground – Bremerhaven; space-playground – Haltern; title back o.m. mine-playground – Hamm 

Publications 

Main catalogue #10 Kindergarten playgrounds #3 Schoolyard playgrounds #3 Inclusive play areas #2 

Playground worlds #2 

Contact 

Contact 

SIK-Holzgestaltungs GmbH 

Langenlipsdorf 54a 

D-14913 Niedergörsdorf 

tel.: +49 (0)33742.799 0 

fax: +49 (0)33742.799 20 

your contact 

mail: info@sik-holz.de 

web: www.sik-holz.de

Imprint 

Publisher 

SIK-Holzgestaltungs GmbH 


Editing, pictures 

Claudia Gust 

Pictures editing, layout, 

Kathleen Gust 

Proofreading 

Maria Metschnabl 

Fonts 

Robinson, Greg Gazdowicz 

FF Fago, Ole Schäfer 

Paper 

Circle Offset Premium White 

(blue angle) 

Print 

dieUmweltDruckerei GmbH 

Hannover 

Management 

Klaus-Peter Gust 

Marc Oelker 

Register court 

Amtsgericht Potsdam 

HRB 8656 

Steuer-Nr.: 050/158/02369 

Status 

05/2018 

© SIK-Holz®

www.sik-holz.de/en 

© 2018

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