Herdecke energy industry hiking trail

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Information board at station 6: Hengstey run-of-river power plant
Station 8: geological outcrop at the Schiffswinkel
Station 9: new Koepchenwerk at Hengsteysee

The Herdecke Energy Industry Hiking Trail is a four-kilometer theme hiking trail in the North Rhine-Westphalian town of Herdecke in the Ruhr Valley between the Harkortsee and the Hengsteysee .

The hiking trail created by the city of Herdecke in cooperation with the Ruhr Regional Association (formerly KVR) is based on the idea of ​​the Herdeck history teacher and local historian Willi Creutzenberg. The Dortmund working group of the Förderverein Bergbauhistorischer Stätten Ruhrrevier , the Ruhrverband , the companies Mark-E (formerly Elektromark), RWE and DEW21 as well as several other organizations were also involved in the realization of individual stations along the way .

Stations along the way

The path begins on the north bank of the Harkortsee at the level of the mini golf course on the Wetterstrasse and then leads upstream to the Hengsteysee. The combined foot and bike path ( RuhrtalRadweg ) along the banks of the Ruhr is used. With the help of display boards, aspects of the energy industry are shown at a total of ten stations, from the promotion of primary energy sources to the generation of electricity through hydropower , the combustion of solid matter and gas conversion.

In the order of the hiking trail there are the following stations:

  1. the digester gas plant of the Hagen sewage works - vestibule ,
  2. the Cuno thermal power station built in 1908 ,
  3. the natural gas transfer station for pressure regulation near the Ruhr viaduct ,
  4. the heat pump system of the Bleichstein leisure pool,
  5. the Stiftsmühle run-of-river power plant (how the Kaplan turbines work ),
  6. the Hengstey run-of-river power station ,
  7. the restored mouth of the Gotthilf colliery (mining of the Sengsbank seam , the geologically oldest coal seam in the Ruhr mining industry ),
  8. the geological exploration at Schiffswinkel with an explanation of the connections between geological history ("Harkort saddle", carbon ) and mining ,
  9. the new Koepchenwerk at Hengsteysee and
  10. the old Koepchenwerk at the Hengsteysee.

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