Ferropolis

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Ferropolis
Panorama Ferropolis - The arena holds approx. 25,000 visitors.

Ferropolis ( Gr. - lat. Ferro and polis "Eisenstadt") is an industrial museum and event location near Graefenhainichen east of Dessau on a peninsula in Lake Gremmin , the former opencast mine Golpa-Nord . Ferropolis is the anchor point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH).

history

Ferropolis, Gremminer See , July 2015

Originally the workshops , the energy supply and the social facilities of the Golpa-Nord opencast mine , part of the Bitterfeld mining area, were located here . Until 1955, a mine railway connected Bergwitz with the Zschornewitz power station . Parts of the abandoned railway embankment were later used as an access road for the Golpa-Nord open-cast lignite mine and later for the connection to Ferropolis. The mine railway and current siding for Ferropolis were built parallel to this former railway line.

After the shutdown of the opencast mine in 1991, based on a diploma thesis by the architect Martin Brück submitted to the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation in 1992 , the idea of ​​merging and museum use of the large equipment remaining on the area on a residual pillar protruding into the opencast mine, today's peninsula. In addition to the Bauhaus Foundation, the Expo-2000-Gesellschaft Sachsen Anhalt GmbH and the Lausitzer und Mitteldeutsche Bergbau-Verwaltungsgesellschaft were involved in the design of the area designated as a regional project for the Expo 2000 . The official founding of the "City of Iron" was completed on December 14, 1995 by the then Minister of Economics of Saxony-Anhalt, Klaus Schucht, unveiling the town sign . In July 2000 Ferropolis was opened to the public. The gala concert for the opening was conducted by the Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis ; Gert Hof staged the accompanying light show . Bauhaus and Expo-Gesellschaft withdrew from the operating company Ferropolis GmbH at the end of 2001 ; The main shareholder is currently (2019) the city of Graefenhainichen.

In 2004 extensive renovation measures were carried out on the large equipment. The connection to Ferropolis was renewed in 2005. In December 2005, Ferropolis was officially included in the European Route of Industrial Heritage. Since April 22, 2006, the registry office in Gräfenhainichen has been operating a branch office for weddings in the disused control room of the Golpa-Nord opencast mine. Ferropolis can also be reached with the museum trains of the former Zschornewitz small railway . An industrial museum was set up in the former coal-fired power station in Zschornewitz as a testimony to coal-fired power generation.

On July 6, 2013, one of five parallel concerts was given in Ferropolis under the title Together against the flood - We say thank you by the radio station MDR Jump . The reason was the regional effects of the floods in Central Europe in 2013 .

exhibition

A disused bucket wheel excavator ("Big Wheel") in Ferropolis.
"Gemini" weaners
Journey to the site by train, September 2016

In the open-air museum there is a bucket chain swing excavator (nickname "Mad Max") and a bucket-wheel excavator ("Big Wheel"), two spreaders ("Gemini" and "Medusa") and a crawler column excavator ("Mosquito").

In the former power supply station, in addition to part of the original control room, there is also an exhibition on regional mining history, which shows, for example, historical photographs from the excavated villages of Gremmin and Golpa, and a replica of the find situation of a 120,000-year-old forest elephant skeleton in the overburden of the neighboring Gröbern opencast mine .

use

In addition to being used as an open-air museum, music and sporting events as well as special events such as the “Bergmann Day” or the “Day of Industrial Culture” take place on the site. The Ferropolis Arena, which is surrounded by five large machines, can hold 25,000 visitors. The unusual setting was and is appreciated by many artists. For example, Die Ärzte , Die Toten Hosen , Linkin Park , Metallica , Böhse Onkelz , Herbert Grönemeyer , Udo Lindenberg , Paul Kalkbrenner , Nena , Deep Purple , Alice Cooper and the Puhdys appeared here. The “City of Iron” is also used for festivals and classical music performances. Events that take place regularly include the Melt! as part of the music festivals Saxony-Anhalt and splash! , the Pyrogames and, since 2017, the With Full Force and the WHOLE - United Queer Festival .

The Iron Drift King motorsport event has been held annually in Ferropolis since 2018 ; 2019 Women's Motorcycle Festival was here the first time Petro Singlettes organized. From 2014 to 2016 Ferropolis hosted obstacle races of the StrongmanRun series; The NeuseenMan triathlon has been taking place on the site since 2018 .

You can also get married in Ferropolis. The registry office in Graefenhainichen has a branch in the former control room.

See also

Web links

Commons : Ferropolis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Thomas Schöne: The future of Ferropolis between rust and color. www.allgemeinebauzeitung.de, February 1, 2019, accessed on September 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Dorothee Wenner: excavator to stroke. (PDF) taz.de, July 18, 1996, accessed on September 24, 2019 .
  4. ↑ The Eisenstadt Ferropolis is growing - the disused opencast mine becomes a recreation area . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 2.9.1998, August, p. 41.
  5. ↑ Golpa-Nord redevelopment mine. (PDF) A reference location for EXPO 2000. www.lmbv.de, February 20, 2000, accessed on September 24, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Ute Semkat: In Ferropolis, old iron shines too. www.welt.de, December 14, 1995, accessed on September 24, 2019 .
  7. ^ Kai Müller: "Ferropolis": iron, fire, flying sparks - Gert Hof and Mikis Theodorakis inaugurate the steel city. www.tagesspiegel.de, July 18, 2000, accessed on September 24, 2019 .
  8. ↑ 16.07.00: Ferropolis - fireworks in the excavation city. de2.mikis-theodorakis.org, August 12, 2004, accessed on September 24, 2019 .
  9. ^ Sabine Wesner: Ferropolis GmbH: Expo and Bauhaus withdraw. www.mz-web.de, July 19, 2001, accessed on September 24, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Tourism should be promoted: Blausee GmbH from Gröbern buys shares in Ferropolis. www.mz-web.de, May 7, 2019, accessed on September 24, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Ulf Rostalsky: Together against the flood: 11,000 say thank you. www.mz-web.de, July 6, 2013, accessed on September 24, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Museum / 30kV station. www.ferropolis.de, accessed on September 24, 2019 .
  13. ^ A b Festivals in Ferropolis: Metal and rubber under excavators. www.focus.de, April 17, 2019, accessed on September 24, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Ulf Rostalsky: Tradition in Ferropolis: Record at Bergmannstag with Max Giesinger. www.mz-web.de, September 17, 2018, accessed on September 24, 2019 .
  15. ↑ "Industrial Culture Day" is a reminder of upheavals. Kultur.sachsen-anhalt.de, accessed on September 24, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Arena. www.ferropolis.de, accessed on September 24, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Motorsport in Ferropolis: Iron Drift King is coming this weekend. www.mz-web.de, August 14, 2018, accessed on September 24, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Dina Dervisevic: Women's motorcycle festival in the "City of Iron". www.mz-web.de, May 28, 2019, accessed on September 24, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Armin Himmelrath: The main thing is to arrive: StrongmanRun in Dessau. www.spiegel.de, August 16, 2015, accessed on September 24, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Obstacle course by moonlight: 2,317 runners turn night into day. www.lvz.de, August 22, 2016, accessed on September 24, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 42 "  N , 12 ° 26 ′ 56"  E