Green path

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Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 51.9 "  N , 6 ° 49 ′ 41.4"  E

Steel marking of the railway cycle path "Emscherweg Green Path" (2014)

The Green Path is an approximately ten kilometer long, combined cycle and hiking trail on the Emschertal Railway, built between 1872 and 1878 by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company, between Oberhausen - Sterkrade and Duisburg - Ruhrort . It is part of the Emscher Park cycle path .

The Green Path uses the route of the Sterkrade - Neumühl - Meiderich-Nord section of the Emschertal Railway, built in 1875 , on which freight traffic between the collieries , coking plants , power plants and smelters in the Emscher region and the Duisburg-Ruhrorter coal handling ports was handled until it was closed in 1987 .

Between 1996 and 2007, the railway line was converted into a cycle and hiking trail in three sections for 10.4 million euros. Old shunting tracks and tracks of the track harp were preserved as well as signal signs and hectometer stones . Bridges were built or renewed over the Emscher and Kleine Emscher . The path leads through the Duisburg-Nord landscape park and connects to the HOAG route in Oberhausen.

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