Emscher Island
The Emscher Island is a 34 km long strip of landscape between the Rhine-Herne Canal and the Emscher . In Castrop-Rauxel , the Emscher crosses under the canal in the Emscher passage , here is the eastern end of the island ( 51 ° 35 ′ 41.4 ″ N , 7 ° 17 ′ 48.3 ″ E ) . In the west, the Emscher changes its course to the northwest at the Neue Mitte in Oberhausen ( 51 ° 29 ′ 34.3 ″ N , 6 ° 50 ′ 55 ″ E ) . The island is also located in the cities of Herne , Recklinghausen , Gelsenkirchen , Herten , Essen and Bottrop .
The Emscherinsel is built on with residential and industrial buildings, sports and green areas, industrial wastelands and open spaces. About 7000 people live on the "island", which is not perceived as such, especially since an average bridge leads to the site every 400 meters.
Project Ruhr.2010
As part of the Ruhr.2010 Capital of Culture , the Emscher Island was expanded into one of the flagship projects. For this purpose, a continuous 70 km island path was created, which includes the already existing cycle and hiking trails Emscher-Weg and Emscher Park cycle path . In some places viewing platforms have been built and sculptures have been erected or integrated into local objects. In the abandoned Berne sewage treatment plant in Ebel, for example, one basin was drained and an underwater garden was set up in the other.
The project sponsors were the Emschergenossenschaft , the Ruhr Regional Association , the Duisburg-Meiderich Waterways and Shipping Authority, the municipalities involved and many of the companies located there. The State Development Corporation of North Rhine-Westphalia also participated in the construction of housing .
Individual evidence
- ^ Helga Pillar: Emscher art at the sewage treatment plant . In: The West of May 26, 2009