Frintrop track park

The former track course still recognizable in the gravel area

Birch trees predominate in the dry, stony ground

Information board for the Route of Industrial Heritage

The Gleispark Frintrop (until 2007 Ruderalpark Frintrop ) is a landscape park on the former freight yard in Essen 's Frintrop district on the city limits of Oberhausen . It belongs to the Emscher Landscape Park (regional green corridor B) and is a station on the route of industrial culture .

The 25 hectare site was originally used by the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft as a shunting and collection station. It was shut down in the 1960s.

The conservation and reclamation of nature was backed by the Emscher Park International Building Exhibition, which opened in 1989 . Their task was to redesign the landscape of the Ruhr area according to ecological and aesthetic criteria. This reclamation of landscape took place, for example, on the site of the former Frintrop collecting station. In 1998 the Ruhr Regional Association bought the wasteland from Deutsche Bahn , dismantled most of the tracks and renatured the site.

The soil of the area is heavily drained due to the substances fallen from wagons (steel, coal, iron ore, lime) and the gravel of the former railroad tracks, almost steppe-like and populated by typical pioneer plants , the predominant tree is the birch . In the eastern part of the park there is a birch forest with ruins and sculptures, further to the west there is a meadow overgrown with shrubs and bushes. Evening primrose , St. John's wort , dry arum and goldenrod thrive on the open areas warmed by the sun . Hawthorns , black elderberries and wild roses grow along the wayside, and blackberries in the undergrowth . There are no new plantings in the park, rather the area is kept free, paths and works of art are secured. Insect species, butterflies, small animals and bird species such as wood pigeons , blackbirds , tits and kestrels have settled.

Natural history excursions to the park begin at the nearby Ripshorst house , as well as regular full moon hikes.

In October 2010, the continuous foot and bike connection "Lipper Heide" was opened from Oberhausen-Knappenviertel via the Frintrop track park to Haus Ripshorst with a connection there to the Emscher Park bike path . There is also a cycle path from the track park to Essen-Dellwig .

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Frintrop track park in Essen
2. ^ Thomas Parent: The Ruhr area. From the 'golden' Middle Ages to industrial culture, Cologne 2002, p. 39 ff.
3. ↑ Wolfgang Sykorra: From the valleys to the Regional Green Corridor B , in: Essen posts. Contributions to the history of the city and monastery of Essen 128 (2015), p. 287
4. ↑ RVR releases converted railway line, press release of October 8, 2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

Commons : Gleispark Frintrop  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Leaflet Industrienatur Gleispark Frintrop (PDF; 2.3 MB)
• Report on fauna & flora on fotoreiseberichte.de
• The Emscher Landscape Park: maintenance management for quality assurance based on the example of the Frintrop track park (PDF file; 1.2 MB)
• Metropolitan clock for the Frintrop track park in the project database and for industrial nature
• Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~24~12404

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 14.9 ″  N , 6 ° 54 ′ 24.6 ″  E