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Ewaldstraße /
Im Emscherbruch
45699 Herten-Süd
www.landschaftspark-
emscherbruch.de
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51° 34′ 1.2″ N, 7° 10′ 1.2″ O
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Regionalverband Ruhr
Since the 1960s there have been official attempts to redesign mining tips into attractive landscape areas and create landmarks. The Hoheward and Hoppenbruch mining tips arose from piling up waste material from the neighbouring Ewald/Schlägel & Eisen colliery and the General Blumenthal/Haard colliery. Taken together with the wooded area around the Emscherbruch and the "Ewald project" they make up the main area of the Hoheward landscape park.
The huge Hoheward tip, north of the Hoppenbruch mining tip, was created in the 1980s from the fusion of the Ewald tip in the west and the Emscherbruch tip in the east. In addition, a small area of housing between the two tips had to be demolished and a tunnel built for the colliery railway line.
At the moment landscaping work is still continuing on the 160 hectare hilltop site which lies 152 metres above sea level. The Hoheward landscape park is the largest mining tip in the Ruhrgebiet. Its main theme is devoted to astronomy. the top of the tip is dominated by a unique horizontal observatory with a circumference of 95 metres. two precisely placed steel arches form a 45 metre high bisected globe. Visitors can follow the course of the Sun, the moon and the stars with the help of this "Meridian arch" which portrays the local meridian and the heavenly equator. This new landmark in the Ruhr metropolis can be seen from far and wide. The so-called "Dragon Bridge" is a further new attraction. It links the borough of Hochlarmark in Recklinghausen with the Hoheward spoil tip.
By contrast the Hoppenbruch mining tip, created between 1978 and 1992, only has a volume of 34 million tons and a height of around 70 metres. Parts of it were opened to the general public as early as 1983. It was taken out of the hands of mining authorities in 1992 and since then it has been completely open to the general public. In 1997 a huge 67 metre windmill was built at the top of the tip. It has a nominal 1.5 megawatt performance and supplies around 3,000,000 kWh hours of electricity per year, enough to cover the needs of 800 households. Next to it stands the so-called "Wind Power Sculpture Garden", containing a small exhibition on the theme of wind power and providing visitors with current data on the performance of the windmill.
Nowadays the Hoppenbruch site offers visitors a range of leisure opportunities. It has been landscaped with black pines and is dotted with small ponds in addition to the many paths snaking around the edge to the summit. As such it makes an ideal recreational area for cyclists, joggers and walkers. From the top of the spoil tip there are good views over the former site of the Ewald 1/2/7 colliery nearby, as well as a panoramic view of the central area of the Ruhrgebiet.
