landschaft park (industriekultur)

i now live in duisberg, an industrial city south of muenster, north of cologne. of this city one told me, he preferred this city to the others, it's a worker's city, everything is equaller.

duisberg and the cities that surround it are cities of the steel industry. a few mills operate to this day, but 1985 saw the end of many of the industrial parks. They were abandoned. and nature began to creep in. a cooperative effort turned the abandoned mills into monuments, in duisberg stands the landschaftspark. this is a view from the top of the high oven, where heat and gas caused a chemical reaction that turns the raw ore into steel.

from the top of this oven gives a stunning view of the duisberg landscape and an operating mill across the way

across the park, nature has returned.

from here comes the river of hot steel from the high oven. this oven worked 24 hours a day 365 days a year.

entrance sign day bunker and hot oven
entrance to hoch ofen

high oven as seen from barracks where the raw materials were once stored.

the landschaft park now hosts sport. scuba diving in the gasometer, rock climbing in the ore bunker, and a bicycle route from mill to mill.

or simply walking around.. we climbed the steps up the oven.

extreme perspektiv

from the top of the high oven looking outwards.

towers. landscape

from the top looking down at bicyclers and the bunkers.. filled with rock climbers

from the top of the ore bunkers.

from the top. duisberg

duisberg and landschaftpark


looking upwards from the bottom of the hoch offen

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