The Industrial culture route - panoramas and landmarks lists stations of the Industrial Heritage Route that deal particularly with the elevated locations (heaps, towers, etc.).
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| Theme route 25 Panoramas and Landmarks | |
 One of Anchor points: Gasometer in Oberhausen | |
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| Wikipedia | RIK # Route 25 |
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 themed route with the number 25 "Panoramas and Landmarks" leads to elevated points of view in the Ruhr area, which can be heaps or winding towers, gasometers or blast furnaces, observation or television towers. These panoramas also have in common that they were often artistically designed, the art objects thematize the Ruhr area and are now landmarks or landmarks for the region. A well-known example is the "slab for the Ruhr area" on the Schurenbachhalde in Essen by Richard Serra, a completely new "Tiger & Turtle" in Duisburg-Angerhausen by Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth. But traditional vantage points such as the Berger monument on the Hohenstein are also part of the themed route.
preparation
The Ruhr area offers the service facilities and accommodation options of a big city. If that's not enough or because it is fully booked / expensive due to local events, you can switch to the surrounding regions: Lower Rhine and Münsterland.
The official RIK travel guide (see literature), the respective anchor point or the corresponding one, provides information on the individual stations of theme route 25 website.
The anchor points are also to be understood as the first point of contact for information seekers:
- Oberhausen gasometer, 46047 Oberhausen, Arenastraße 11 (From Oberhausen Hbf Terminal 1 by bus / train to "Neue Mitte", then a short walk.). Tel.: 49(0)208 8503730, Fax: 49(0)208 8503733, Email: [email protected]. The disc gas tank of the Gutenhoffnungshütte (GHH) has been an imposing exhibition monument for 20 years, as well as a climbable landmark and landmark of Oberhausen; Christo's current exhibition "Big Air Package" opened in March 2013.Open: Tue-Sun 10 a.m.-6 p.m.Price: adults 9 €, reduced 6 €, school classes 3.50 € / person, family 20 €, season ticket 25 €.
- Landscape Park Duisburg-Nord (LaPaDu), Duisburg, Emscherstraße 71 (Tram 903, bus 906/910: Landschaftspark Nord). Tel.: 49(0)203 4291919, Fax: (0)203 4291945, Email: [email protected]. Landscape park on the former hut area, lots of nature, light scenarios, guides through the industrial culture, Bike rental, Use of the halls for cultural events, challenging diving area in the gasometer, climbing garden in the ore storage bunker, high rope course in the casting hall, observation tower on the blast furnace.Open: freely accessible all year round except for special events; Visitor center: Mon-Fri 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Sat, Sun & public holidays: 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
- 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 Ruhr Museum and the red dot design museum, monument path, Erich Brost pavilion, RevierRad station, Cafe Kohlenwasher, Casino Zollverein.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.
getting there
The Ruhr area is easy to reach, nearby airports are in Dusseldorf or Dortmund, both have rail connections. There is a high density of motorways, federal highways and railways on offer. Important hubs with long-distance connections are the main train stations in Duisburg, Mülheim an der Ruhr, eat, Hagen and Dortmund. There are several motorways for motor vehicles (A 1, A 2, A 3, A 40, A 42, A 43, A 44, A 45) with corresponding departures, but important: the Ruhr area is largely one Environmental zone, which only allows the entry of vehicles with certain badges (current status can be found in the respective city article under arrival!).
Here we go
- West Pole
- Headframe Bönen - East Pole
- Halde Northern Germany
- Pattberg dump, Moers-Repelen, Pattbergstrasse. Radio amateur station, summit cross, 64 meters above the surrounding area, popular with hang-gliders and model pilots.
- Stockpile Rhine Prussia, Moers, Gutenbergstrasse. The heap rises 74 meters above the surrounding area, about 10 meters below the highest point there is "Das Geluchter", a 30-meter-high observation tower in the form of a miner's lamp (the 10-meter-high viewing platform is open: in summer Thursday, Saturday, Sunday 14th : 00-18: 00, in winter Sat & Sun 13: 00-16: 00). The lamp and the dump area underneath are illuminated in red from the onset of darkness (in summer until 11 p.m., in winter until 9 p.m.).
- 1 Rhine orange ((Rhine kilometers 780)), 47059 Duisburg-Kaßlerfeld, At the mouth of the Ruhr / Am Bört (Approach via Kaßlerfelderstrasse).
The sculpture erected in 1992 (25m high, 7m wide, 1m deep, 83 tons heavy) by the Cologne sculptor Lutz Fritsch is made of steel and painted with the RAL color 2004 = pure orange. It marks the mouth of the Ruhr in the Rhine and also the end point of the 230 km long Ruhr Valley Cycle Path as well as the “Tortour de Ruhr”, the longest ultra marathon in Germany.Open: freely accessible all year round, except during floods.
- Tiger & Turtle - Magic Mountain, Duisburg-Angerhausen, Ehinger Strasse (on the Heinrich-Hildebrand-Höhe in the Angerpark; Tram 903 to Berzelius). The large sculpture, which opened in November 2011, is reminiscent of a roller coaster from a distance, but it can only be walked slowly (without the loop), panoramic view of Angerhausen and nearby industrial companies, highest point 13 meters above the dump (which rises about 35 meters above the surroundings), great lighting at night.Open: Open day & night, the number of simultaneous visitors is limited, in bad weather, snow & ice, access is blocked.Price: free.
- Alsumer mountain, Duisburg, Alsumer Steig. The dump (actually a rubble dump), which protrudes 70 meters above the surrounding area, is particularly popular with photographers, from where great shots of the Rhine and the surrounding industrial plants are possible (even at night!) (ThyssenKrupp Steel, Hamborner Ofengruppe, Schwelgern coking plant and the Groß -Hochöfen Schwelgern, sewage treatment plant Alte Emscher). For Schimanski fans, the obvious one Matena tunnel still mentioned.
- Landscape Park Duisburg-Nord (see above for anchor points)
- Knappenhalde
- Oberhausen gasometer (see above for anchor points)
- Haniel dump, Bottrop, Fernewaldstraße (parking lot Prosper-Haniel mine). one of the highest heaps at 159 meters above ground; extensive way of the cross, at each station a copper plaque of the artist and nun Tisa von Schulenburg and a mining tool; open amphitheater in the center of one of the pouring spirals (800 seats, regular theater / opera events, Mountain arena), on the top edge above the installation "Totems" by Agustín Ibarrola.
- Tetrahedron, Bottrop-Batenbrock, Beckstrasse. The 60-meter-high steel tetrahedron stands on the 65-meter-high Beckstarße dump, stairs lead to 3 viewing platforms that are suspended and have grid floors (a head for heights required), the staircase is blocked in extremely bad weather or wind, the upper part is illuminated at night.
- Schurenbachhalde, Essen-Altenessen, Emscherstrasse. 50 meters high, wooded below and provided with biotopes, above large free ellipsoidal area with the "slab for the Ruhr area" by Richard Serra (dimensions: 14.5 m high, 4.2 m wide, 13.5 cm thick, weight 67 t, slightly inclined to the south: 3 ° = 45 cm), looks small from a distance, but huge directly in front of it.
- Zollverein Coal Mine World Heritage Site - Shaft XII (see above for anchor points)
- World heritage
- Zollverein coking plant, 45141 Essen, Arendahl's meadow, area [C] (Bus 183 to "Kokerei", parking lot C). Formerly the most modern coking plant in Europe, at the end of 2001 together with the Zeche zum World Heritage explained, facilities largely preserved, white / black side, sun wheel (ferris wheel in the coke oven battery), palace of projects (in the salt store), factory swimming pool in summer, ice rink in winter, cafe & info point "die kokerei".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 on the colliery site.
- Mechtenberg landscape park
- Rungenberg dump, Gelsenkirchen-Buer, Holthauser Strasse (in the Schüngelberg settlement). Access from the settlement via hiking trails or a staircase with 300 steps, at the bottom managed, at the top two bare, black, triangular peaks (60 meters above the ground) with large, rusty spotlights (switched on: 1 / 2h after the street lights until midnight), between the Pointed a plateau of railroad tracks.
- Stockpile Rheinelbe, Gelsenkirchen-Ückendorf, Leithestrasse. Pointed cone with very good all-round visibility (40 meters above the area, no trees above) and the "heavenly staircase" by Herman Prigann on top as well as one bizarre sculpture forest by the same artist and the Rheinelbe forest station, both located north of the heap.
- North Star Tower - Hercules
- Hoheward landscape park, Entrances in Herten. At the Handweiser / Ewaldstraße / Im Emscherbruch, in Recklinghausen. Cranger Street. Large renatured area with two heaps: Hoppenbruch (Wind turbine with sculptures, MTB cross country / freeride circuit 3.5km) and Hoheward (Obelisk as sundial, horizon observatory, dragon bridge, circumferential balcony promenade), the latter is still being piled up.
- 2 Tippelsberg, Bochum-Riemke, Tippelsberger Strasse. - Natural mountain topped up with rubble, renatured in 2007, summit cross lying on the paved plateau, several hiking trails up, very suitable for families, good view 40 meters above the surrounding area
- Lorraine dump
- 3 Schwerin dump , Castrop-Rauxel, Bodelschwingher Strasse; Walkable sundial, four staircases in north-south / east-west direction, one of the smaller heaps with 24 meters above the surrounding area
- Dortmund U
- TV tower Florian, Dortmund, Florianstrasse 2 (is located in the Westfalenpark). Tel.: 49 (0)231.58680120-0, Email: [email protected]. Open: Monday to Friday 12:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.Price: € 3.50 for park & tower tour / 1 person, € 10.50 / family with 2 adults and max. 4 children. - The tower is over 200 meters high, the viewing platform and restaurant are just over 140 meters high, opening times and entrance fees are below Side of Dortmund, for technology and history buffs is the private homepage Telecommunication tower Dortmund recommended. Danger: After the elevator system has been refurbished, the tower is accessible again, but due to fire protection regulations, people with restricted mobility are not allowed to go up (emergency ladder between the floors).
- Hohensyburg, Dortmund-Syburg, Hohensyburgstrasse. - The castle ruins are located on the Syberg above Lake Hengstey, a popular excursion destination with the Vincket Tower and Kaiser Wilhelm monument to the west, and the Hohensyburg casino and St. Peter zu Syburg church to the east.
- Berger memorial, Witten, on the Hohenstein. - 20 meters high monument, about 130 meters above the Ruhr, great view of the Ruhr Valley, the surrounding Hohenstein recreation area also has lawns for sunbathing and playing, barbecue areas, a petting zoo and a water playground.
- Harkort Tower
- Eugen Richter Tower
- Brockenscheid dump with the gauge turret
- Kissinger Höhe, Hamm-Herringen, To the mine. - 58 meters above the surrounding area, 17 km of hiking trails with gradients of 2% -16% for various sports / levels of difficulty, a lot of Nordic walking, dogs only on a leash, mining trail with typical equipment
- Heap of large wood, Bergkamen-Weddinghofen, Erich-Ollenhauer-Strasse. , WebCam - 90 meters above ambient level, very good view of the eastern Ruhr area, diverse design through blue corridors, floor formation, planting, light sculptures, very spacious, not all areas accessible / completely designed because some areas are still being filled up.
- Linden Brewery (Culture and communication center), 59423 Unna, Rio-Reiser-Weg 1 (for GPS: Massener Str. 33-35). Tel.: 49(0)2303 251120, Fax: 49(0)2303 22932, Email: [email protected]. Socio-cultural center on the outskirts of the city center with concerts, cabaret, theater, over 30 / over 40 / over 50 disco, exhibitions, readings, etc. At the same time, it is also an experimental field and platform for clubs, artists, initiatives and a meeting point for the neighborhood. Linden beer has been served again in the pub with beer garden since 2002.
- Stockpile Saxony
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literature
- Regional association Ruhr (Ed.): Panoramas and Landmarks; Vol.25. eat, Industrial heritage route.
