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.

Stations on the themed route
designation	Location	object	art	Artist
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
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
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
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
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