Planet shore Dorsten
The 3.2 km long Dorsten Planet Trail was opened on June 10, 2017. On a scale of 1: 1.4 billion, it consists of a 1 m large sun and 8 planetary steles at the appropriate distance. On them 3 mm (Mercury) to 102 mm (Jupiter) large stainless steel hemispheres are mounted. The earth is made of blue lapis lazuli.
The location of the sun is centrally located on the Hochstadenbrücke. From there it goes along the Wesel-Datteln Canal . That is why the path is officially called "Planet Shore".
It arose from the ideas competition as part of the extensive urban renewal measure for the development of the inner city "We do (te)". Christian Gruber made the suggestion, the implementation was carried out by the metalworker Klaus Osterholt. The idea behind it was all about making the actual size and spacing in the solar system tangible. With the steles there is no further information about the individual planets. The table in the sun also only contains a projection of the model's planetary orbits onto a city map.
As a special feature, the steles are each provided with the words from the motto “My father explains our nature to me every Sunday”. This 3.2 km long "sentence in the landscape" is not explained and should be solved by hikers or cyclists.
