Rungenberg dump

View from the plateau of the western radiator to the eastern radiator. In the background you can see the wind turbine of the Hoppenbruch heap .

The Rungenberg dump is around 110 m above sea level. NN high mine dump in Gelsenkirchen . It was created through mining in the Hugo colliery . The spoil dump is one of the burning dumps , is mostly green again, partly wooded and invites you to take a walk.

As with many other dumps in the Ruhr area , part of the Rungenberg dump was designed as a landmark : from the Schüngelberg settlement , a staircase of around 300 steps leads up to a rubble pyramid that is cut in the middle by a valley.

At night, the rays of two rusty headlights visually complement the cut pyramid to form a whole pyramid. The thick, rusted steel tubes, which point towards the sky like oversized telescopes, form the light installation "Night Signs " by Hermann EsRichter from Oberhausen and Klaus Noculak from Berlin , who won the 1992 competition for the artistic design of the heap.

They also created the “rail plateau”, a floor relief in the depression on the stockpile in the axle extension of the two headlight locations. With 5,500 meters of railroad tracks , an elliptical area of 33 by 41 meters was laid out close together.

The best way to get to the landmark part of the Rungenberg dump is via Holthauser Straße in Gelsenkirchen. The Rungenberg dump is part of the Route of Industrial Culture .

Web links

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

Description of this sight and panorama point on the Route of Industrial Culture
The dump on the website of the city of Gelsenkirchen
Halden Ruhr - The Halde Rungenberg in Gelsenkirchen
Halde Rungenberg on the website of the artist Klaus Noculak

Individual evidence

↑ Wolfgang Berke : Over all mountains - The definitive stockpile guide in the Ruhr area. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0170-4 , p. 93.
↑ Wolfgang Berke: Over all mountains - The definitive stockpile guide in the Ruhr area. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0170-4 , p. 95.

51.5619 7.041Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 42.8 " N , 7 ° 2 ′ 27.6" E

[1] Wolfgang Berke : Over all mountains - The definitive stockpile guide in the Ruhr area. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0170-4 , p. 93.

[2] Wolfgang Berke: Over all mountains - The definitive stockpile guide in the Ruhr area. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0170-4 , p. 95.