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Pattbergstraße
47445 Moers-Repelen
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51° 29′ 47" N, 6° 35′ 23" O
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Von Moers Bf mit Bus 32 bis "Restaurant Voss", dann 10 Min. Fußweg
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Regionalverband Ruhr
The concept for landscaping the area around the Pattberg mining tip foresees an ecological renaturisation project to improve the quality of streams and rivers, increase the areas of woodland and create biotopes, orchards and hedgerows. The area will also be made available for recreational purposes which are compatible with the environment, such as water sport facilities on the surrounding excavated lakes, paragliding and kite flying, as well as cycling trails, horse riding tracks and paths for joggers and hikers.
The Pattberg mining tip is one of the newest tips in the Rhineland-Westphalian industrial area. At the start of the 1960s the colliery of the same name received official permission to deposit its waste rock here, and operations proceeded for over 20 years until a hilly area of around 48 hectares had been piled up. The highest point of the tip is 62 metres above sea level.
The times have long gone since towering mountains of black rubble dominated the image of the region. Modern spoil tips belong to a new generation. Even though they contain elements which are alien to the landscape, over the last few decades industrial operators and institutions have developed processes to integrate the tips into the landscape. Now the tips rise in gentle waves to form attractive hills above the surrounding landscape. And even as they are being piled up, they are specially designed and greened over to conform to the planned result.
In 1997 the RAG company handed over the tip to the Ruhr Regional Association which joined forces with the towns of Moers, Kamp-Lintfort, Neukirchen-Vluyn and Rheinberg to create a single integrated "Lower Rhine Landscape Park". Their plans foresee an ecological renaturisation project to improve the quality of streams and rivers, increase the areas of woodland, and create biotopes, orchards and hedgerows. In addition they wish to create a recreational area for a variety of leisure activities which are compatible with the environment. One event is already firmly fixed in the calendar: the annual kite festival on the tip. Visitors who climb all the way to the top of the tip are rewarded with a wonderful view of the Lower Rhine landscape. It is also immediately clear how strongly industrial activities and transport connections have shaped the face of the area.
