The Route of industrial culture - Zollverein industrial cultural landscape lists stations of the Industrial Heritage Route especially around the Zeche Zollverein. This includes the colliery itself, which is also the anchor point of the route, the coking plant, heaps and infrastructures, settlements and social facilities.
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| Theme route 2 Zollverein industrial cultural landscape | |
 Anchor point: Zollverein colliery | |
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The route of industrial culture represents as Holiday route in the Ruhr area special industrial monuments and areas of the industrial landscape in the form of road routes for motor vehicles and also for that bicycle in front. In addition to the Anchor points, which form the backbone of the route, convey the Themed routes always a special topic, a local area or something special in the history of the Ruhr area.
The theme route with the number 2 "Industrial Cultural Landscape Zollverein" focuses entirely on eat, more precisely on everything that has to do with the Zollverein colliery and coking plant. Both areas have been in the World heritage listed by UNESCO.
There is another route that deals with food, this is route number 5: Krupp and the city of Essen.
preparation
Dynamic cardseat offers the service facilities and accommodation options of a major German city. If that's not enough or because it is booked out / expensive due to local events, you can switch to the surrounding cities: Bochum, Gelsenkirchen, Bottrop, Oberhausen, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Velbert, Hattingen. Due to the good motorway and railway connections, other cities in the Ruhr area as alternative quarters.
Information on the individual stations of theme route 2 is provided by the official RIK travel guide (see literature), the respective anchor point or the corresponding one website.
The anchor point is also to be understood as the first point of contact for information seekers:
- Zollverein colliery, 45309 Essen, Gelsenkirchener Strasse 181 (Tram 107 to "Kapitelwiese", "Zollverein" or "Abzweig Katernberg", parking lots A1 and A2, GPS: Ernst-Schupp-Allee). Tel.: 49 (0)201 246810, Fax: 49 (0)201 2468242, Email: [email protected]. 2001 to World Heritage declared, well-known icon of earlier mining; Most of the facilities have been preserved and supplemented with modern new buildings, various event and exhibition halls, the location of the Ruhrmuseum and the red dot design museum, monument path, Erich Brost pavilion, RevierRad station, Cafe Kohlenwash, Casino Zollverein, and much more.Open: The site is freely accessible all year round.Price: Booking of guided tours (€ 4 - € 15, depending on the scope) and information material in the Ruhr Visitor Center.
There is also the RIK visitor center on the mine grounds:
- Ruhr.Visitorcenter / Visitor Center Ruhr, 45309 Essen, Gelsenkirchener Straße 181, Zollverein Schacht XII [A14], in the former coal washing plant (foyer of the Ruhrmuseum) (Tram 107 to "Zollverein", parking lot A1, GPS: Fritz-Schupp-Allee). Tel.: 49 (0)201 2468-10, Fax: 49 (0)201 2468-242, Email: [email protected]. Open: daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., in the summer months also until 8 p.m.
getting there
Essen is easy to reach, is a comfortable distance from the airports in Düsseldorf and Dortmund, has a main train station with ICE and IC connections and is a regional hub. Other train stations in the Essen area also control destinations closer to stations on the route (e.g. Zollverein North with the S-Bahn Duisburg-Dortmund). There are several motorways for motor vehicles ((A 40, A 42 and A 52) with appropriate departures, but important: food is part of the Environmental zone Ruhr area, which only allows the entry of vehicles with certain badges (current status under Food # arrival).
Interesting means of transport in this context is the Tram line 107, also called culture line 107. The tram runs from Gelsenkirchen Hbf via Zollverein and Essen Hbf to Essen-Bredeney. On the train and at the stops there is information about the sights at the respective stop. On the Website you will find detailed information on the 45-minute route, the 57 affected sights, the possible tickets (in the normal EVAG / VRR tariff), the Timetable and as a special highlight also the Audio tour 107. The free audio book (60MB, MP3 files) has an audio contribution of one to two minutes for each station. From A for Aaltotheater to Z for Zeche Zollverein, many points on the route of industrial culture are also explained. There is also a pocket book for the route (see literature below).
Bicycles can be rented at the Zeche Zollverein and at other locations in Essen:
- metropolitan clock (nextbike GmbH), 04109 Leipzig, Thomasiusstr. 16 (has other cities in Germany on offer). Tel.: 49 (0)341 3089889 0, Email: [email protected]. Hotline: 493069205046.Open: Can be borrowed / returned 24 hours a day.Price: 30min at € 1, daily rate € 9, special conditions for VRR / VRL customers. Register via the hotline, at the rental stations, at tourist information offices, on the Internet or via App 8 for iPhone, Android and WindowsPhone), the specified means of payment (bank account, credit card) must be activated before the first trip. The Locations in Essen are diverse and widely distributed, there are also stations in the neighboring cities. However, the station at the Zollverein colliery itself is often empty.
- RevierRad (PIA-Stadtdienste gGmbH), 45468 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Dieter-aus-dem-Siepen-Platz 3. Tel.: 49 (0)208 848570, Fax: 49 (0)208 8485716, Email: [email protected]. Please call (0) 208 8485720 for questions.Open: Lending / returning all year round but only during the opening hours of the station.Price: Short rate <2h € 6, day € 9, from 6 days € 7 / day, various types of bikes, accessories such as child seats and helmets possible, one-way rental € 4, cash only. RevierRad has two rental stations in Essen: at the Zeche Zollverein (Gelsenkirchenerstraße 181) and at the Alte Lohnhalle (Rotthauserstraße 40), there are around 20 stations in the entire Ruhr area. Advantages of this provider: Bicycles can be reserved in advance (at least 5 days in advance) and brought / picked up from any location in the Ruhr area (€ 8 / bike & route).
Here we go
Colliery, coking plant and other facilities on the site are considered by the RIK Zollverein World Heritage Site summarized and are the first anchor point of the Route of Industrial Culture. On the Website zollverein.de there is extensive information material on the Download page i.a. a Image brochure and a very practical one 3D site plan for orientation.
TIP: If you want to do more in the Ruhr area, it might be worth buying an annual pass RuhrTopCard (~ 50 €), with admission to the Ruhr Museum (8 €) and a guided tour of the coking plant (9 € - "Through the coke oven and master course"), the red dot design museum (6 €) and the exhibition Phenomania Experience Field ( 7 €, Zollverein shaft system 3/7/10, see below) are already included.
- 1 Zeche Zollverein XII (1932-1986 in operation) was the last mine of the Zollverein mine and at the same time the most modern ("miracle of rationalization") and most representative, allegedly the "most beautiful colliery in the world". It only produced coal (12,000 tons per day), the miners' arrival took place in the other four, decentralized pits. The apprentices and the elderly worked on the reading belts (sorting out the stones). The car circulation worked automatically and only a few workers were employed in the boiler house, switch house or coal washing plant. The outdoor area with the typical double-headed headframe and the factual, functional industrial buildings (architects Fritz Schupp and Martin Kremmer) is freely accessible all year round (except for special events). Many of the buildings can be visited as part of a guided tour, some are used for other purposes:
- Zollverein monument path, Visitor center Ruhr. Tel.: (0)201 246810, Email: [email protected]. Sturdy shoes and insensitive clothing are recommended, it goes through old facilities, halls and rooms in the historical core areas. Some of the tours on the Coal Path are carried out by former miners (e.g. Steiger tour with Pütt stories), there are also night and full moon tours as well as offers for children, families and photographers. There are many information boards and photographs on the routes, as well as animations and sound recordings at individual stations, all really impressive. Flyer to the tours.Price: € 4-15, depending on the scope and duration (2-4 hours).
- in the former 1 Coal washing is housed:
- Ruhr Museum. Tel.: (0)201 24681-444, Fax: (0)201 24681-460, Email: [email protected]. The regional museum has numerous collections on geology and archeology, history and photography, which it shows in its permanent exhibition (entire natural and cultural history of the Ruhr area) and in special exhibitions (including topics outside the Ruhr area).Open: daily 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., closed on Christmas & New Year's Eve.Price: Basic entrance fee (permanent exhibition & portal of industrial culture): adults € 8, reduced € 5; Special exhibition: adults 6 €, reduced 4 €, gallery exhibition: adult 3 €, reduced 2 €, complete (permanent & special & gallery exhibition and portal of industrial culture): adult 12 €, reduced 7 €; Children up to 14 years of age generally free entry; Annual tickets also available.
- the Visitor center Ruhr (please refer above)
- and that under the roof Portal of industrial culture. Tel.: (0)201 246810, Email: [email protected]. Multimedia processed information about the monuments of the industrial age in the past, present and future. Highly recommended is the film Ruhr.360 ° in the former round thickener and the corridor up to the roof of the building with a great view of the colliery and the surrounding area.Open: Apr to Sep daily 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., otherwise until 6 p.m.Price: Access only possible with a museum ticket.
- in the 2 Boiler house is that red dot design museum. Tel.: (0)201 30104-25, Fax: (0)201 3010440, Email: [email protected]. 2,000 everyday objects that the visitor might also have at home (exciting what you can recognize there), from spoons to cars, from kitchens to clothes to cameras. They are particularly elegant, innovative and, above all, excellently designed - with the red dot design award.Open: Mon closed, Tue-Sun 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Christmas, New Year's Eve & New Year closed.Price: Adults € 6, reduced € 4, children under 12 years free, families € 16, with a day ticket from the red dot you also get a discount in the Ruhr Museum.
Away from the "Zollverein" tram stop over the courtyard towards Shaft XII
Away from the main parking lot A1 to the site, on the left at the edge the Ruhr Museum, straight ahead the winding tower shaft XII from the side
The colliery area in the evening, the two orange ribbons in the background are the escalator to the coal washing plant - a popular photo opportunity
on the way on the monument path
The Ruhr Museum in the former coal washing plant
Escalator up to the Ruhr Museum (there is also a lift at the north entrance at the front of the coal washing plant)
Path through the gallery to the viewing platform
View from the viewing platform over the site, on the right the white Sanaa building, on the left shaft system 1/2/8
Entrance to the red dot design museum
Exhibition objects inside next to the historical building equipment
- 2 Zeche Zollverein shaft 1/2/8 was the first location of the colliery. The builder was the businessman Franz Haniel from Ruhrort, who had successfully carried out several tests on coal and selected a location near the Cologne-Minden railway line. Shafts 1 and 2 were started in 1847/49 and produced coal from 1851/52, while shaft 8 next to it was sunk in 1897-1900 (shafts are often numbered within a mine). Shaft 8 was a weather shaft for ventilation and therefore did not have a winding tower, shaft 1/2 received a new strut frame in early 1900 instead of the Malakow tower. The buildings that are preserved here today date from the 1950s / 60s and are housed there:
- in the 3 Washrooms: PACT Zollverein (Performing Arts Choreographic Center NRW Tanzlandschaft Ruhr), 45327 Essen-Katernberg, Bullmannaue 20a. Tel.: 49 (0)201 2894700, Email: [email protected]. Founded in 2002, engine and stage for dance, performance, theater, media and visual arts.
- in the former 4 Power center and joinery: Zollverein Art Shaft, 45327 Essen-Katernberg, Bullmannaue 22. Home and studio of Thomas Rother, Writer and visual artist who works a lot with old mining materials. There is also a collection of historical tools and figures of Saint Barbara on the site.Open: Sat / Sun 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. as well as by tel. Agreement.Price: Admission: € 2.50 / p.
- in that time 5 Building yard: Ceramic workshop Margaretenhöhe, 45327 Essen, Bullmannaue 19th. Tel.: 49 (0)201 305080, Fax: 49 (0)201 303031, Email: [email protected]. Ceramics as dishes, vases, complementary pieces in restrained shapes and colors.Open: Mon-Fri 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Sat 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
- The 3 Zollverein coking plant (In operation from 1961 to 1993) was also built by Fritz Schupp, it is located a little north of the colliery and received the coal from it. At the time of their marriage, she processed 10,500 tons of coking coal into 8,000 tons of coke, the separated components were used in-house (heating the ovens), fed into the Ruhr gas network or further processed in the chemical industry (ammonia, benzene, tar). Up to 1000 people were employed in the ultra-modern coking plant. With the exhibition "Sun, Moon and Stars - On the Cultural History of Energy" in 1999, the coking plant moved into the focus of the public next to the colliery and in 2001 it was included in the world cultural heritage. The best way to get there is via the Bullmannaue to parking lot B.
- Today the coking plant is used for ...
- Light art installation. the artist Speirs & Major (red and blue side of the coking plant), which can be experienced particularly impressively on one of the nocturnal tours.
- 6 Info point coking plant (with "die kokerei" - Café & Restaurant) (in the former mixing plant). In the info point you can also get tickets for the tours on the Zollverein monument path, and this is the meeting point for tours through the coking plant.Open: Mar-Dec Mon-Fri 12: 00-20: 00, Sat / Sun / Fe 11: 00-20: 00.
- 7 Sun gear. a Ferris wheel in the coke oven battery No. 9 with 14 gondolas.Open: normally open on weekends from May to October, but techn. Difficulty in failure.Price: € 2.50 / adult 1.50 € / red.
- 8 Factory swimming pool. two overseas containers welded together serve as a free outdoor swimming pool in summer; they were created by the artists Dirk Paschke and Daniel Milohnic.Open: August-September, daily 12: 00-20: 00.Price: Free entry.
- 9 rink. from Christmas to January operated 150m long ice rink on the water-filled printing machine track.
- 10 Palace of Projects (in the salt store of the coking plant). by the artist couple Ilya and Emilia Kabakov.Open: Fri-Sun & Fe 11 am-5pm.Price: 4 € / adult 3 € / reduced child <12 years free.
- 11 Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (named after the physicist), 45141 Essen, Arendahls Wiese 199 (in the former control room). Tel.: 49 (0)201-183-6070, Fax: 49 (0)201-183-6073, Email: [email protected]. interdisciplinary research institution, founded in 2006 by the University of Duisburg-Essen and the Radboud University Nijmegen (from the Netherlands), researches with a 7 Tesla MRT high field system in the fields of neuroscience, medical diagnostics and therapy.Open: Visits only by arrangement and to special events.
One of the demonstration models, in the foreground the elongated coking plant with six chimneys
White side of the coking plant
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Back of the coking plant - accessible by bike and footpaths
Light installations
on the monument path: spinning machine house and ...
... view from below into one of the chimneys
Factory swimming pool
Ice rink 2010
Sun gear
Beer garden at the cafe "die kokerei"
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- 4 Cologne-Minden Railway and Zollverein factory railway
- The trunk line of the Cologne-Mindener Railway went from Cologne via Düsseldorf, Duisburg, the flat Emschertal (Oberhausen, Altenessen, Gelsenkirchen, Wanne, Herne, Rauxel) to Dortmund and on via Hamm and Bielefeld to Minden. Franz Haniel had waited until the main line had been built before deciding on the first shafts; he knew about the importance of this means of transport for coal mining and trade. The KME line went into operation on May 15, 1847, and in the same year it was possible to cross from the Rhine to the Weser - and shaft 1 at Zollverein was sunk. Today the route is no longer as important as it was at the time of coal mining in the Emschertal - but there are still train stations that are served there: Essen-Zollverein-Nord (is operated by the S2 and tram 107) and Essen-Altenessen (with a branch to the Zeche Zollverein), is served by the S2, the Tram 106 and the subway U11 and U18 approached. The branch to Zollverein is only served by museum railways and for special events (e.g. extra shift).
- In addition to the large stretches of the national railway companies, the mining, coking, steel and chemical companies also set up their own networks Werkbahnen at. There was a connection between the various Zollverein shafts, but also to the Nordstern colliery (and the port there on the Rhine-Herne Canal) on the outskirts of Gelsenkirchen. Many of these routes have been closed for a long time and are now available as railway cycle paths for cyclists and hikers. An example here is the Zollvereinweg mentioned between Essen-Katernberg and Essen Mechtenberg, he is part of the Emscher Park cycle path and leads past the coking plant and colliery. According to the railroad routing at that time, there are connections to Nordstern or via the Kray-Wanner-Bahn to the Ore railway line.
- Theobaldstrasse settlement
- Works welfare
- Market square Katernberg
- Heinrich-Lersch-Strasse
- Catholic Church of St. Joseph
- Workers' settlement Hegemannshof / Meerbruchstrasse
- Faith mosque
- Zollverein-Halde and Trabrennbahn
- Zollverein shaft system 4/5/11 - Triple Z
- Consumer institution
- Ottekampshof workers' settlement
- Dortmannhof
- Pestalozzi settlement
- Colony 3
- Tram in Katernberg, is meant the culture line 107 already mentioned above under Arrival with its historical predecessors.
- Zollverein pit 3/7/10
- Phenomania field of experience. Open: Mon-Fri 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Sat / Sun 10 a.m.-6 p.m.Price: 7 € / adult 6 € / red. 3 € / child 3-5y.
- Kingdom of Beisen
- Schonnebecker shops
- Schonnebeck youth hall
- Cemetery on hello
- Zollverein shaft system 6/9
- Stiftsdamenwald settlement
- Evangelical St. Thomas Church
- Stoppenberg town hall
- Collegiate church
- Catholic Church of St. Nicholas
- Drostenbusch settlement
security
trips
literature
- ; Regional association Ruhr (Ed.): Zollverein industrial cultural landscape; Vol.2. eat, 2010 (2nd edition), Industrial heritage route, ISBN 978-3-932165-92-4 .
- EVAG (Ed.): Discover Essen by tram: KulturLinie 107. eat: Klartext-Verlagsges., 2007 (2nd edition), ISBN 3898617742 , P. 96.
