Hoheward - The landscape park

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Information board for the Hoheward Halde with the color-coded landscape park
View over the area of ​​the landscape park

The landscape Hohe Ward (formerly landscape Emscherbruch ) is a public Reclamation Project in the northern Ruhr area , the approximately 7.5 square kilometers former industrial areas and heaps of coal mining on the outskirts of the cities Herten and Recklinghausen redesigned into a recreation park. Planning began in 2001, construction work in 2004 and completion is planned for 2015. Since the beginning of 2011, the landscape park has been on the route of industrial culture.

Geographical

Ewaldsee

The Emscherbruch , located between Gelsenkirchen , Herne , Herten and Recklinghausen , represents the last remnant of the pre-industrial marshland that occupied the valley basin formed during the Ice Age. Today's waterlogging is largely due to subsidence and the resulting depressions in the ground. A kind of quarry forest with numerous remaining areas and smaller bodies of water has emerged here. On the edge of the Emscher collapse of the construction of the lies Bundesautobahn 2 resulting Ewaldsee . The Emscherbruch with its forest pools, water ditches and permanent damming areas, together with the local plant species and the industrial forest created on mining areas, form a landscape that can give a certain idea of ​​what the Emschertal looked like before the start of industrialization. Areas close to settlements are used, sometimes informally, as local recreation areas.

Large parts of the original Emscherbruch were used to deposit residues in heaps and landfills. One of the largest landfill sites in the Ruhr area, the Emscherbruch central landfill, is located west of the landscape park. In the middle of the former floodplain, the mountain heaps form Hoheward and Hoppenbruch with a height of 152.5  m above sea level. NN the largest dump complex in the Ruhr area and Europe. In what was originally an extensive lowland, an anthropogenically transformed industrial landscape has emerged.

Construction of the landscape park

The Hoheward Landscape Park comprises biotopes, industrial areas and infrastructures, in particular:

Structures

The clients of this cooperation project are the cities of Herten and Recklinghausen , the Regionalverband Ruhr (RVR) and Deutsche Steinkohle AG . Several landscape architects, planning offices and astronomers have been planning since 2001 in order to use funding from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and other supporters to create a viable financing concept and an attractive, public local recreation park with numerous attractions (sundial with obelisk, horizon observatory, balcony promenade, sky lake - see Halde Hoheward ) create. The measures in the first phase of implementation alone comprised a cost volume of around € 9 million.

The division of labor results in detail for:

  • the city of Herten: the Ewald promenade with the water axis on the site of the former Ewald colliery
  • the city of Recklinghausen: the development of the garden belt (southern part) and the square "Auftakt Ost" of the active linear park
  • the RVR: the development of the east and north flanks of the heap through the ring and balcony promenade and the design of landmarks on the summit plateaus.
  • the Initiativkreis Horizontastronomie im Ruhrgebiet eV : Idea, design, planning and scientific support for the Sundial and Horizon Observatory projects.

Insightful quotes

  • “Halden as man-made mountains are a huge urban development opportunity that we have consistently used and used. Set in scene with landmarks , they give the conurbation striking facial features and help people to orientate themselves in the Ruhr Metropolis. The Hoheward dump will soon be part of a series of well-known landmarks such as the Beckstraße dump in Bottrop with the Tetrahedron (Bottrop) or the Schurenbachhalde in Essen with the unique slab for the Ruhr area . ”(Heinz-Dieter Klink, Director of the Ruhr Regional Association )
  • “The Emscher Landscape Park aims for the integrated development of city, landscape and work. It is therefore one of the fields of action of the Ruhr Growth and Employment Pact launched by the state government. The main project of the Emscher Landscape Park 2010 master plan is the 'New Emschertal' as the vision of a continuous green corridor from Duisburg to Dortmund along the converted Emscher as part of an integrated new development axis for the areas of work, living, the environment and quality of life. The Emscherbruch landscape park with the Hoheward dump fits in perfectly with this integrated development strategy. "( Bärbel Höhn , Minister for the Environment and Nature Conservation, Agriculture and Consumer Protection of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia until 2005)

Web links

Commons : Landschaftspark Hoheward  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 50.6 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 24 ″  E