Lorraine dump

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Map of the heap with information on the route of industrial heritage
The southern slope of the heap

The stockpile Lorraine is a six-hectare tailings dam of the former Zeche Lothringen I / II in Bochum district Gerthe . It is located to the east of the former mine in an industrial area.

The dump has a steep, very hot, dry and therefore little overgrown edge in the south. The Haldentop at 136 meters above sea level. NN (16 meters above ambient level) is heavily solidified with waste material and also sparsely overgrown. The other slopes of the heap are only slightly inclined. Evening primrose , St. John's wort and narrow-leaved ragwort grow there . At the renatured Gerther Mühlenbach in the east of the dump, it is already so humid that dragonflies can be observed.

A two-hundred-meter-long promenade-like path leads up to the dump, leading in an arch to the artistic installation on the southern slope. Immediately in front of the slope at a height of 135 meters above sea level. NN. is the work of art About (n) Ort by Kirsten Kaiser . It consists of yellow painted pipes. A horizontally running pipe approx. 50 centimeters thick is erected at short intervals from similar but thicker vertical pipes, the construction is 220 meters long in total. The height of the twenty-three vertical pipes increases from west to east, the horizontal pipe remains at its height and is surmounted more and more. On the slope side (visible from the south) there is a linear LED light installation on the horizontal tube. The color yellow for the pipes and the LED lamps was chosen deliberately by the artist, it stands for road traffic and for “attention!”, It is intended to attract the dump from which the surrounding landscape and buildings are clearly visible. The night installation is also yellow, but it has a completely different effect, as it is perceived as a floating band without rising or vertical elements.

In the area of ​​the colliery site in what is now the Lothringen industrial park, a dump-like landfill with polluted soil has been dumped that does not belong to the mine dump. After being covered with foil, it was greened. There are three scaffolds made of reinforcing steel, as they are often used for foundation piers. Their arrangement symbolizes the three uniform chimneys that marked the colliery in Gerthe.

Art installations

  • Installation yellow painted pipe Above (n) location

  • Effect of the work of art from a great distance

  • The landfill with the three symbolic chimneys

literature

Web links

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

Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~25~12520

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 9.5 ″  N , 7 ° 17 ′ 33 ″  E