Industrial Culture Route - Panoramas and Landmarks
Theme route 25: Panoramas and landmarks of the RIK |
Panoramas and Landmarks is the name of the 25th themed section of the Route of Industrial Culture .
A landmark is a topographical object that is usually visible from afar, which is used for orientation and navigation and is therefore also marked on maps. If it is perceived as characteristic of its environment, it can also become a landmark . With panorama the lookout point on an elevation or a tall building is meant. The route of industrial culture includes both landmarks (for example art objects on the dumps or illuminated winding towers as lighthouses) and industrial historical landmarks (for example buildings or places of contemporary history).
In detail, heaps , winding towers , blast furnaces , gasometers , water towers , art objects , parks and the like are listed here. Many of them have been artistically designed or supplemented in recent years, be it with sculptures or light installations. The RVR names some of the artist names here: Richard Serra , Dani Karavan , Herman Prigann , Ulrich Rückriem , Dan Flavin , Agustín Ibarrola , Mischa Kuball and Jonathan Park .
The Landmark Art route is complemented by the panoramas of the Route of Industrial Culture.
Route 25 was renamed at the beginning of 2011, the Tippelsberg and various towers, especially from the south of the Ruhr area, were added and additional points from other routes were added, so that the number of stations increased from 21 to 34. Several points were omitted, the night and day panoramas, locations Castrop-Rauxel, Dortmund, Herne, Bochum are now no longer represented in the route of industrial culture. In 2012, the RVR added the Mechtenberg Landscape Park to the route, and in 2013 the Tiger & Turtle sculpture was used as the name of the panorama instead of the Anger Park.
designation | Location | object | art | Artist | image |
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West Pole | Kamp-Lintfort | striking, cubic headframe from the Rossenray shaft | western part of the Yellow Marker light installation as a boundary marker for the Emscher Park | Mischa Kuball | |
Headframe Bönen - East Pole | Bonen | Headframe of the former Königsborn colliery, shaft III / IV | eastern part of the Yellow Marker light installation | Mischa Kuball | |
Stockpile North Germany | Neukirchen-Vluyn | former heap of the Niederberg mine | Illuminated works of art in the hall house and sky staircase , topographical designs for open-air events, hang-gliding and model gliding, paragliding and Nordic walking | ||
Pattberg dump | Moers | former mining dump of the Pattberg colliery | popular with hang gliders and model gliders, kite festival every year until 2007, further use by radio amateurs | Summit cross | |
Stockpile Rhine Prussia | Moers | Tailings pile | Lookout tower and light object Luminous | Otto Piene | |
Rhine orange | Duisburg | Mouth of the Ruhr into the Rhine | orange sculpture | Lutz Fritsch | |
Angerpark - Heinrich-Hildebrand-Höhe | Duisburg | Landscape park around the site of the former Duisburg metalworks | Large walk-in sculpture Tiger and Turtle - Magic Mountain similar to a roller coaster, light installation, opened in November 2011 | Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth | |
Alsumer mountain | Duisburg | Rubble dump on the former place Alsum on the Rhine | Summit cross in memory of Alsum | ||
Landscape Park Duisburg-Nord | Duisburg-Meiderich | closed steelworks | Landscape park, numerous light installations and leisure opportunities (plunge pool, climbing garden, ...), as well as anchor point on the route of industrial culture | Park by Peter Latz , light art by Jonathan Park |
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Knappenhalde | Oberhausen | Mine dump near the Oberhausen colliery in the Knappenviertel | wooded, 15 meter high observation tower | ||
Oberhausen gasometer | "New Center" Oberhausen | Disk gasometer of the former steelworks of the Gutehoffnungshütte | Industrial monument converted into an exhibition hall and an observation tower | ||
Haniel dump | Bottrop | Mine dump of the Prosper-Haniel coal mine | Way of the Cross, amphitheater and installation totems | Totems by Agustín Ibarrola | |
Beckstrasse dump | Bottrop-Batenbrock, Beckstrasse | formerly the dump of the Prosper-Haniel colliery | pyramidal observation tower tetrahedron | Wolfgang Christ | |
Schurenbachhalde | Eating old people | Tailings pile | "Slab for the Ruhr area" | Richard Serra | |
Zollverein World Heritage Site - Shaft XII | Essen-Stoppenberg | Formerly the most modern coal mine, closed in 1986 | Industrial monument and world cultural heritage, museum and event location, also visitor center of the Route of Industrial Culture | Sculptures on Versatzhalde (documenta IX, 1992) by Ulrich Rückriem | |
Zollverein World Heritage Site - coking plant | Essen-Stoppenberg | previously the most modern coking plant in Europe | Industrial monument and world cultural heritage, event location, also anchor point of the route of industrial culture | night light installation by Jonathan Speirs and Mark Major | |
Mechtenberg landscape park | Gelsenkirchen with partial areas in Essen and Bochum | Park on several elevations (natural mountain caused by the Ice Age, mountain dump and landfill), nature reserve | Bismarck tower of the city of Essen, sound field of stones , bridge structures | Sound field by Thomas Link, bridges by Frei Otto |
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Rungenberg dump | Gelsenkirchen | Tailings pile | Sculpture ensembles: night signs (two mirror spotlights) and rail plateau (surface relief formed from railroad tracks) | Hermann EsRichter and Klaus Noculak | |
Rhine Elbe dump | Gelsenkirchen-Ückendorf | Tailings pile | Sculpture forest with stone and wood settlements, u. a. Heavenly stairs and moon wood | Herman Prigann | |
North Star Tower "NT2" | Gelsenkirchen-Horst | Elevation of the winding tower with museum rooms and viewing platform | Hercules statue | Markus Lüpertz | |
Hoheward landscape park with the Hoppenbruch and Hoheward heaps | Recklinghausen and Herten | Mine dumps, landscape park | Sundial with obelisk, horizon observatory, balcony promenade with sky stairs and dragon bridge, wind turbine and wind sculpture park, challenging MTB cross country / freeride circuit | ||
Tippelsberg | Bochum | natural elevation, topped up with rubble | Reclining cross, steel steles with views of the Ruhr, hiking trails take up fairy tales | ||
Lorraine dump | Bochum-Gerthe | Mine dump of the Lorraine colliery I / II | "About (n) place" | Kirsten Kaiser | |
Schwerin dump | Castrop-Rauxel | Mine dump of the Graf Schwerin colliery | sundial | Jan Bormann | |
Dortmunder U | Dortmund, center | Culture and creative center, Museum am Ostwall | "Flying pictures" | Adolf Winkelmann | |
TV tower Florian | Dortmund, Westfalenpark | TV tower, viewing platform, restoration | Westfalenpark | ||
Hohensyburg | Dortmund-Syburg | Ruin, destination, vantage point | Kaiser Wilhelm I monument | built from 1893 to 1902 by Adolf von Donndorf | |
Berger monument on the Hohenstein | Witten | Observation tower | |||
Harkort Tower | Weather | Lookout tower for views of the Ruhr valley | Memorial tower to Friedrich Harkort (1793–1880) | Artist Bruno Schmitz , architect Kuhlmann |
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Eugen Richter Tower | Hagen | Part of the Hagen "Drei-Türme-Weg" | Memorial tower to Eugen Richter (1838–1906) | Architect Gustav Wenner | |
Halde Brockenscheidt with the gauge tower | Waltrop | Bergehalde the Zeche Waltrop | Viewing platform made of laths, way of the cross |
Tower by Jan Bormann Stations of the Cross by Paul Reding |
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Kissinger Höhe | Hamm | Dump of the east mine | Nordic Walking Park, educational mining trail | ||
Heap of large wood | Bergkamen | Dump of the east mine | Landscape structure with corridor park, | Impulse light sculpture by Dirk and Maik Löbbert | |
Linden Brewery | Unna | former brewery | socio-cultural center, center for international light art | ||
Stockpile Saxony | Hamm-Heessen | Mine dumps and rubble from the Sachsen colliery | Saxon cross with motif plates, obelisk, sculpture "Windzeiger - Haldenblick" |
Jens J. Meyer |
Web links
- Description of this themed route as part of the Route of Industrial Heritage
- Landmark art in the Ruhr area, Günter Pilger photographs