Wehofen-Ost dump

Wehofen dump, view from Brinkstrasse in west direction with the chimneys of the Schwelgern steelworks on the left and with the chimney and cooling tower of the Walsum power plant on the right in the background

The Wehofen dump is a plant landfill of the Duisburg steel manufacturer ThyssenKrupp between the Duisburg district of Wehofen and Dinslaken . It is mainly used to deposit slag , refractory stones, excavated soil , street sweepings and construction rubble . Popularly it is also called Monte Schlacko .

Radio amateurs use the exposed location of the dump for field day competitions on shortwave and ultra-shortwave.

location

The landfill site is divided into four areas with dump complexes. It is located in the city of Dinslaken and borders on Duisburg ( Walsum -Wehofen) to the south and the Emscher to the north .

The area is bounded to the west by Bundesautobahn 59 and Bundesstraße 8, to the north by the Emscher and to the east by Kreisstraße 8. It is currently provided by the route of the former Zechenbahn Lohberg the Lohberg from north to south and from the Leitstraße, the Federal Highway 8 in Dinslaken- Averbruch with the county road , cut through connects 8 in west-east direction. In 2015, the landfill in the Wehofen-Nord area is to be expanded by a third construction phase, filling in the former railway line. If the railway line is reactivated, ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe will build a tunnel through the landfill.

history

The backfilling of the heap began in 1935. During the Second World War , a large part of the Wehofen-West heap was set on fire due to the dropping of incendiary bombs .

At the beginning of the 1950s, the available space was no longer sufficient for the smelting works. At the end of 1950 an application was made to use the Wehofen-Ost site to fill up another heap. On August 20, 1953, the Duisburg Mining Authority granted approval with the restriction that the dump area may not be extended to the north beyond the Leitstrasse.

In the community development law NW of June 13, 1950, the communities were given the right to land use plans for the first time. Dinslaken created such a master plan and designated the site as an industrial area. On July 7, 1953, after objections from Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG , the city council of Dinslaken decided to appeal to the association committee of the Ruhrsiedlungsverband , with the aim of reducing the area. The council also pointed out that the city of Dinslaken had to sacrifice land by relocating the Emscher, and that the Wehofen dump is primarily used to store overburden from mines located in other municipalities.

In 1976, the Ruhrsiedlungsverband revised the requirements and determined, among other things, that the previous designations as industrial areas no longer apply and the dump areas appear as green areas.

With the zoning plan of February 20, 1980, the land-use plan drawn up in 1953 was replaced.

The dumps were subject to the mining law, with the result that the involvement of municipal authorities was not required. The mining authority was the decision maker. That was one of the legal specialties. This only changed with the revision of the Federal Mining Act and the Waste Act of 1988, where two procedural principles were applied for the Wehofen dumps: the Mining Act for mining waste and the Waste Disposal Act for industrial waste.

In 1973, the August-Thyssen-Hütte applied for a plan approval procedure for Wehofen-Nord with the district president of Düsseldorf in order to build a heap there on the area with a height of 45 meters. This application was supplemented in 1978 with a representation of the types of waste. Demands on the part of the Dinslaken City Council from 1979 regarding a ban on the delivery of bulk goods via Dinslakener streets as well as contract proposals for recultivation , leisure facilities and much more were rejected by the regional president in the planning approval decision of November 11, 1980.

From 1978 to 1986 the city of Dinslaken used the site west of the colliery railway and north of the Leitstrasse as a landfill.

The landfill site is to be expanded to include the section on the north side. The extension is called Wehofen-Nord, third construction phase. An application for planning approval for the third construction phase was submitted in summer 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ buergerstiftung-duisburg.de, Industriehalde Monteschlacko (accessed on July 20, 2012)  ( 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.  
2. ↑ Plans for the landfill extension in Duisburg are making progress, by Rosali Kurtzbach, WAZ from June 16, 2014
3. ↑ The Wehofen dump near Duisburg has been burning for 70 years, by Arne Poll, WAZ from January 7, 2014
4. ↑ Embers! Coverage of the Wehofen dump will not end until 2020 by Gregor Herberhold, WAZ from February 28, 2017
5. ↑ deponie-wehofen.de location
6. ^ Wehofen landfill: Further reports are being laid out, by Michael Turek, NRZ of July 25, 2017

Web links

• A historical outline of the Averbruch / Wehofen-Nord landfill
• Halde Wehofen: "Bigg" complains about secrecy
• 42 hectares not just for salamanders
• Visit to the Wehofen dump: The geothermal use of dump fires is possible
• round-table-for-the-landfill-extension
• deponie-wehofen.de location

Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 23 "  N , 6 ° 45 ′ 57"  E