Beckstrasse dump

View from the Prosperstrasse heap onto the Beckstrasse heap

The Beckstrasse dump is a tailings pile of the Prosper-Haniel mine in Bottrop .

It was created from 1963 to 1980. Since October 2, 1995, it has been released from mining supervision and is the property of the Ruhr Regional Association .

The dump shape is a table mountain , the dump volume is 11.8 million m³. The dump towers over its surroundings by 80 meters, its summit height is 110 meters above sea ​​level .

It is one of the most famous dumps in the Ruhr area . To the east, separated by a railway line, is the Prosperstrasse dump .

Cultivation and Use

On top of it is the walkable, approximately 60 meter high tetrahedron , together they form the dump event Emscherblick . From 2009 to 2014, local road transport used a hydrogen bus from Vestische Straßenbahnen GmbH to drive to the dump plateau on weekends .

literature

• Wolfgang Berke : Over all mountains. The definitive stockpile guide in the Ruhr area. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8375-0170-4 , p. 126ff.

Web links

Commons : Halde Beckstraße  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Page with data on the Beckstrasse dump ( memento of the original from June 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Norbert Jänecke: The hydrogen bus drives up to the tetrahedron | WAZ.de. In: www.derwesten.de. Retrieved September 19, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Kai Süselbeck: Hydrogen bus makes the last laps to the tetrahedron in Bottrop | WAZ.de. In: www.derwesten.de. Retrieved September 19, 2016 . 

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 37.2 "  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 36"  E