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Essen, Europäische Kulturhauptstadt 2010
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aus: Illustrierte Wirtschaft: Kraftquellen der Wirtschaft im Gau Essen, Berlin 1938
Evening
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GEA, Bochum, abgerissen
GEA heat exchange technologies, Bochum/Germany, demolished
Rauxel Generating Set
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120 MW-Maschinensatz < Block 1 < Klöckner/e.on Kraftwerk Rauxel, Castrop-Rauxel
In Betrieb 1958-1990, abgerissen 2006-2008
120 MW Generating Set < #1 unit < Klöckner/e.on Rauxel power plant, Castrop-Rauxel/Germany
In service 1958-1990, demolished 2006-2008
Zukunftsstandort Phoenix-West (I)
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Zukunftsstandort Phoenix-West
Dortmund, Oktober 2008
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Deshalb ist die Qualität öffentlicher und privater Räume nur sekundär eine Sache individuellen Verhaltens, der Architektur und des Städtebaus. Sie ist primär bestimmt von der Qualität der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse, die in ihnen ihre Orte und ihren symbolischen Ausdruck gefunden haben.
Walter Siebel in Zum Wandel des Öffentlichen Raums (PDF)
Route de Mons
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Route de Mons, Charleoi, April 2007
With No. 4, CARSID blast furnace
Metalworking Shop
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Hörder Verein Metalworking Shop
Dortmund/Germany
Demolished
Mechanische Bearbeitung
Hörder Verein
Abgerissen
Dortmund: Martinstraße
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Martinstraße and Silberstraße, downtown Dortmund, 2008
Former Thier brewery. This area will soon be polluted by an ECE mall project. City council found having a mall right next to one of Germany's most frequented shopping quarters to be a good idea.
Duisburg-Fahrn
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Aldenrader Straße/Friedrich-Ebert-Straße, Duisburg-Fahrn, Germany. A residential area in the North of Duisburg with ThyssenKrupp Steel's No. 2, Schwelgern blast furnace shown in the background. It's the blast furnace with the highest capacity in Western Europe.
In the Woods
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Foundations of the 1895-built Otto-Hoffmann coke oven battery of Neu Iserlohn I coal mine, Germany (1849 Incorporation, 1859 Shaft sinking starts, 1862 Production starts, 1927 Production reaches all time high, 1955 Consolidation with Robert Müser Coal, 1968 Production ends)
Weingartenstraße
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The face of Dietmar Bär, a Dortmund local and an actor popular nationwide, is showing on this Weingartenstraße billboard. Formerly situated in closest possible proximity to Hoesch Steel's BOS shop (Oxygenstahlwerk), Weingartenstraße used to be the dirtiest street in town. The pipeline in the background is part of the city's gas transportation network, connecting the various Hoesch Steel sites, air fractionation plants, and coking plants across town. Once much larger, the part shown still is transporting nitrogen. Dortmund, Germany.
Volkswohl Bund Insurances Headquarters (I)
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Volkswohl Bund insurance company, former headquarters, 1970-built part, main staircase. Blasted February 17, 2008.
Insurances are an industry characteristic to the city of Dortmund that I haven't mentioned here before, and Volkswohl Bund is one of the insurance companies registered here. At the moment, it is replacing its headquarters. The new ones will be errected where the 1955- and 1970-built parts of former one stood.
Battery 4
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Number 4, coke oven battery of Hansa Coke, Dortmund, Germany, during demolition
Even though Hansa Coke is a popular technical museum, attracting more than 20,000 visitors in 2007, large parts of the plant were demolished in 2005, including almost all gas handling and byproduct winning units, almost half of the cokemaking capacity, and the modern dry quenching facility.
After Germania
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Number 4 shaft, Germania Colliery, Dortmund-Marten as of Febuary 2008
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Klick = Großansicht
Eine schwarz umhüllte (Holz-)Bramme markierte 2001 das Ende der Stahlerzeugung in Dortmund: in den verschiedenen Werksteilen im Stadtgebiet wurden auf einer Fläche zigfach so groß wie die vom Wall eingegrenzte Dortmunder City fast sämtliche Anlagen mitsamt zugehöriger Infrastruktur außer Betrieb gesetzt und anschließend im bisher größten Industrieumzug überhaupt ebenfalls fast sämtlich nach China verkauft. Momentan wird mit Hochdruck an der Tilgung der Spuren der Stahlzeit gearbeitet, damit 2010 alles kulturhauptstädtisch glänzt. Neun Jahre. Was dann aus dem Wahlspruch geworden sein wird?
Golden Oil
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Neuss harbor = food industries. In this picture: flour (Diamant-Mehl), mustard, mayonnaise, Maggi (Nestlé-Thommy), oils (Walter Rau).
Helenenstraße, during rainfall
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Helenenstraße/Zollstraße with Krupp power plant and coal mine; Essen-Altendorf, Germany, November 2007; demolition in progress
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In the background two of the few remainders of the Krupp empire in Essen, now both facing demolition: the boiler house, generator house and one of the winding engine houses of Amalie colliery, named after Helene-Amalie Krupp (1732 – 1810) and part of the Friedrich Krupp Bergwerke AG from 1927 on (boiler house left building, turbines and generator house back part of right building, winding engine house of shaft Marie front part of right building).
Krupp was Germany's major weapon supplier in both World Wars. While almost the entire Kruppsche Gußstahlfabrik in Essen was dismantled by the Allies after WW2, the company continues to exist. After the hostile takover of Hoesch, the closure of Rheinhausen and the merger with Thyssen, it is now part of Germany's largest steelmaker ThyssenKrupp. ThyssenKrupp currently is in the process of moving its headquarters to Essen - to the founding site of the Krupp works, to be more precise. Essen will be the European Capital of Culture in 2010.
Harbor Night
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Self portrait, coal harbor, Dortmund. Taken with an Adox Golf medium format folder. Selling for just a few Euros, such vintage cameras can be quite fun.
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