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Rheinkalk Werk Hönnetal

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:03:47 +0000

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Three limekilns at the Lhoist operated Rheinkalk Werk Hönnetal, Oberrödinghausen. One rotary kiln and a pair of Maerz type kilns. Around 200 people currently work in the quarry, kilns, processing plant, and in administration. Approximately 800,000 tons of quicklime and around 900,000 tons of unburnt limestone products are produced annually.

Bergwerk Saar

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 06:41:37 +0000

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The Duhamel shaft at Bergwerk Saar in Ensdorf was sunk to depth 868 metres in 1913. At the end of June 2012 the colliery closed, marking the end of hard coal mining in the Saarland after several centuries. At closure this shaft was being used for men and materials handling and was wound by a steam engine manufactured by Dingler'sche Maschinenfabrik in 1918.

Zeche Rheinpreußen shaft 8

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 11:13:18 +0000

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The first mining at the Rheinpreußen mine took place in 1876, although the sinking work on shafts 1 and 2 had been repeatedly delayed by technical problems such as quicksand collapses. The development of coal mining and sinking of new shafts over the next century extended the mining area from Duisburg-Homberg to Moers.

This shaft, known as the "Gerdt" shaft (Rheinpreußen 8), was sunk east of the main shaft system in 1941 as a ventilation shaft and put into operation for Rheinpreußen 5/9 in 1945. An expansion from 1955 to 1959 made Shaft 8 ready for winding. The winding tower for this was planned by the architects Fritz Schupp, a well-known figure in the Ruhr area. Winding here was abandoned in 1967.

1971 saw the shaft become part of the new Rheinland Mine and then through merger into the Freidrich Heinrich/Rheinland Mine in 1993. It became part of the Walsum Mine in 1994 and was abandoned and filled-in in 2004. The shaft was 573m deep and 4.5m in diameter. The winding drum and controls remain at the top of the tower.

Ironworks

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 06:14:03 +0000

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The former Meiderich works of ThyssenKrupp in Duisburg is now a focal point of the Lanschaftspark Duisburg-Nord. Public access to the blast furnaces and other structures provides a fascinating view of how iron was smelted here until closure in 1985. This view from funace No.5 looks down on what I believe to be part of the hot blast process although these towers look different from the Cowper stoves normally associated with the process.

Digestion

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 06:25:19 +0000

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Digester towers at the Bottrop sewage treatment plant in the Ruhr. These are the world's largest digestion towers. The site purifies 8,500 liters of water per second and produces 190,000 tons of sewage sludge annually.

Zeche Göttelborn

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 15:44:21 +0000

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Loading bunker at Zeche Göttelborn. This was part of the remodelling of this pit in the early 1990s. The new Shaft 4 commenced production in 1995 after the expenditure of 200 million euros on development of the colliery to raise 2.5 million tonnes of coal per year. It closed along with the rest of the pit in 2000.

Camphausen shafts 2 and 4

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 12:24:20 +0000

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The Camphausen colliery at Fischbach-Camphausen was sunk in 1871 with two deep shafts and in 1874 a third shaft was added. In 1908 the fourth shaft was sunk with a hammerhead winding tower made of reinforced concrete which was completed in 1912. The Federal Chamber of Engineers has designated it a historic engineering landmark. The tower has a height of 40.7 metres and stands on four supporting pillars, each eleven metres below the ground. On the top floor there are two electric winders by AEG, each with an output of 1740 kilowatts.

The colliery became absorbed into the Reden-Camphausen mining complex in January 1990 and coal mining ended here in November 1990.

Zeche Gneisenau shaft 4

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 16:25:49 +0000

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Sinking of the Gneisenau colliery commenced in 1873 but, due to water problems, it was 1886 before the shafts were completed. A third shaft was sunk in 1903. The mine was steadily expanded and improved with a fourth shaft added in 1934. By the 1970s output was 4.5 million tons a year with 6,000 employees and it was the largest colliery in the Ruhr area. Production ceased in 1985 and the adjacent coking plant followed in 1989.

Today two sets of headgear are preserved as industrial monuments. This is headframe over shaft 4 constructed in 1933-34.

Nordhausen details

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 06:58:25 +0000

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Terracotta details on a building in Uferstraße, Nordhausen. This sort of decoration is unusual in the town where the contemporary buildings tend to be plain.

Inden opencast

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 15:52:05 +0000

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RWE Power operate the Inden opencast mine with the output of Brown Coal going to their nearby power station. The Inden mine in the Aachen City Region extends from the municipality of Aldenhoven and the A 44 (Düsseldorf-Aachen) motorway in the north to the A 4 (Cologne-Aachen) motorway in the south. In 2017 there were reserves of 260 million tonnes with output capacity of 20 million tonnes per annum. This is one of five spreaders in use on the site which have a total capacity of 110,000 cubic metres of material per day.

Völklingen Ironworks

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 13:05:02 +0000

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Furnaces and Cowper Stoves at Völklingen.

The Völklingen Ironworks is a former blast-furnace complex located in the German town of Völklingen, Saarland. Pig iron production occurred at the site from 1882 through 1986. As one of the only intact ironworks surviving from the 19th and early-20th centuries in Europe and North America, it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994 because of its exceptional preservation and its testimony to ferrous metallurgy and the Industrial Revolution.

Kraftwerk Weiher III

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 06:44:20 +0000

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The third Weiher coal-firedepower station was opened in 1976 with an output of 680 Mw which was later increased to 697 Mw. Originally it was supplied with coal from the nearby Göttelborn mine. Operated by STEAG GmbH the plant was shut down in February 2021.

Distillery

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 06:59:49 +0000

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It is clear what is made at the Echter distillery in Nordhausen.

Torpedo traffic

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 06:25:46 +0000

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Iron torpedoes being shunted across an internal level crossing and under the No.4 blast furnace at the Dillingen steelworks. A close look into the building shows slag being teemed into ladles to be taken away for tipping. The locomotive is Henschel DHG 500 C 31112 of 1965.

Dillinger Hütte GTS specialises in the production of heavy plate. The company was founded in Founded in 1685 and is Germany's oldest joint stock corporation.

State school

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 05:58:08 +0000

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Wilhelm von Humboldt state school in Nordhausen. This striking red brick building was erected in 1861.

Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt (1767-1835) was a Prussian philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin, which was named after him in 1949 (and also after his younger brother, Alexander von Humboldt, a naturalist). He was the architect of the Humboldtian education ideal, which was used from the beginning in Prussia as a model for its system of public education, as well as in the United States and Japan.

The Lanstroper Egg

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 06:23:23 +0000

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This water tower was designed in 1904/05 by the company August Klonne in Dortmund for the Municipal Gas and Water Works Unna. Until 1980 it was used for the water supply of Lanstrop, Derne, Mengede, Brambauer and parts of the city Lunen.

The "Lanstroper Egg" has a height of over 18 metres, a diameter of 14 metres and a capacity of 2,000 cubic metres of water. The whole tower is 60 metres high.

Völklingen Ironworks

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 07:20:03 +0000

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In 1881 Carl Röchling began construction of an ironworks at Völklingen. Production began two years later and whilst improvements were made for a number of years the works remains as an example of pig iron production in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The plant closed in 1986 and is now a world heritage site and museum.

Zeche Göttelborn

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 08:03:01 +0000

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The headframes at the Göttelborn colliery show three distinct phases of development. The central frame on Shaft 3 was erected in 1925/6 by the engineering firm Geisler, whilst the nearest shaft 2 was completed in 1940. Just visible is the massive 90 metre headframe over the 1160 metre, 9 metre in diameter, shaft 4 which is the tallest such structure in the world. Shaft 4 commenced production in 1995 after the expenditure of 200 million euros on development of the colliery to raise 2.5 million tonnes of coal per year. It closed along with the rest of the pit in 2000.

Meiderich

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 17 May 2011 12:39:29 +0000

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The view from one of the blast furnaces at the former Meiderich works of ThyssenKrupp in Duisburg is full of interest both near and far. The second furnace is visible on the left and both sets of Cowper Stoves still stand too. The plant was closed in 1985 and is now a focal point of the Lanschaftspark Duisburg-Nord.

Blast furnace gas

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 06:50:50 +0000

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Meiderich ironworks, Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord. The gasholder in this preserved ironworks site is now filled with water and used for diving. It was constructed in 1920 and had a capacity of 20,000 cubic metres of blast furnace gas.

www.landschaftspark.de/en/industrial-heritage-circuit/gasometer