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| Built at: May.27.2002 Last update: Dezember 06, 2004 |
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The Ruhr district has arisen and grown by the coal mines as the most important energy supplier for the reconstruction after the war. Thousands of workers came with her families here. There were enough work and apartments. How early settlements were built around a castle, the Ruhr district grew around its coal mines. Today, only a few mines are still operating and some winding towers, some of them are made to industry monuments, show of the former "coal factories".
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Bramme (left with
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| One more testimonial of the industry landscape in the Ruhr district is the Schurenbachhalde in Essen. This mound has arisen from mining debris of the surrounding coal mines and been completed 1995 as a landscape building. The American artist "Richard Serra" made the design of the mound surface as a gigantic, elipsoid surface. If you are at the highest point of this convex surface, the wider surroundings can be seen no more and you have the impression, that you are on a lunar landscape. The surface of the mound so meagerly, the trouble-free round circumspection is the more magnificent on adjacent towns of the Ruhr district with the mixed industry and town landscape: Oberhausen, Bottrop, Gladbeck, Gelsenkirchen Essen and more. |
| Already from a long distance you can seen the "Bramme" (a large rolled pice of raw steel) at the 50 m high "Schurenbachhalede" in Essen. Either the ascent to the surface and the Bramme happens around the mound or over the eastern stairs with over 250 steps. | ||||
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small part of the long stairs to the top |
The
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If you have reaced the plateau you are
standing in front of a wide free elipsoid area on top of
the mound. An undisguised panorama look on the Ruhr
district extends here: Industrial plants, high rising
towers, settlements but also much green. You see in the background: |
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| In the background there is the "Rhein-Herne-Kanal"
with the "BUGA-Gelände" at the old coal mine "Nordstern". May.21.2002 / appr. 06:40 pm Kite: Ghost Buster Windspeed: approx. 5 - 7m/s Camera: SONY P5 |
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Since 11.10.1998 a gigantic sculpture is standing in the centre of the ellipsoid plateau on the "Halde Schurenbach in Essen". The "Bramme for the Ruhr district". 14,5 m high, 4,2 m width 13,5 cm thick and 67 t in weight is the Bramme out of raw steel. The Bramme and the Halde are building one unit as a memory at the production from steel and coal in this district. | ||
Bramme
on top of the Schurenbach- |
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The 67 tons of steel of the Bramme incline by 3 degrees towards the south and seem to sink in into the ground. If you are standing directly in front of it, it seems colossal. The Bramme funnily enough didn't become waltzed in these steel and coal region, but into 'Creusot-Loire industry' in France, since here are no more production possibilities for such steel disks of raw steel here. | ||
14,5
m high, 4,2 m width |
Bramme
in the eveningsun. |
Here above I have learned once again what thermik is (I had a similar experience at the Tetraeder in Bottrop). The wind blew very weakly at the evening with 3.5 to 2 m/s and I already had my effort to start the Flowform # 2. As I just had the kite in the air the first time, just came back the sun behind a cloud. Heating on by the sun a thermicbubble of the gigantic, black area has come loose after a few seconds and the Flowform, increased more and more highly. Of course the pull of the kite became lower and lower and at last direct over me the kite then tilt over at the side around itself and in a normal flight situation again. |
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Bramme on top of the Schurenbachhalde in
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Kiters
on the plateau. |
Leisure
sport wit the mountain-bike |
Many visitors
have done their |
Links to other KAPers and more you can find in my Surfers Guide.
I like to be available for questions, suggestions or experience exchange.
I would be very pleased about an entry in my visitor's book.
Manfred
http://KAP-Man.de
Manfred
