Ruhr Basin (Germany), Route of Industrial Heritage
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- Inside the Gasometer in Oberhausen. Erected in 1929 as a plate
gas container, the Gasometer had been converted into an exceptional
and amazing exhibition hall after its shutdown in 1988.
(http://www.gasometer.de/eng/)
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- Inside the Gasometer Oberhausen
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- View from the floor of the Gasometer to the top
(at a height of 117 meters)
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- An inside glass elevator takes you up to the roof
with its 3 viewing platforms.
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- Since 2001 the former coal-mine and coking plant
›Zeche Zollverein XII‹ owns the status as a
World Heritage Site of the UNESCO.
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- The mine shaft had been built 1928-1932 by leading industrial architect Fritz Schupp, supported
by engineer Martin Kremmer. Designed in Bauhaus style, the mine shaft had been considered
as the ›most beautiful coal-mine of the world‹.
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- The coking plant of ›Zeche Zollverein XII‹ had been built 1957-1961, again by architect Fritz Schupp.
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- Part of the coking plant
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- Part of the coking plant
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- The coke-oven batteries reached a length of 800 metres.
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- Detail of the coke-oven batteries
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- Detail of the coke-oven batteries