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Prosper Park: Mining Heritage Landmarks

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Prosper Park: Mining Heritage Landmarks

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Prosper Park: Mining Heritage Landmarks

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Location: Ruhr Region, Münster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. Emscherblick Spoil Heap Event – View of Kokerei Prosper loop from Boy

11.4km

02:59

90m

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. Start of Kreuzweg – View of the Tetrahedron loop from Alsfeld

23.5km

06:20

220m

Hard hike. Very good fitness required. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required.

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3. OLGA Park Oberhausen – Schwarzes Tor Viewing Tower, Olga Park loop from Oberhausen-Sterkrade

25.9km

06:43

150m

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

November 5, 2021

"... North-east of the city center of Bottrop with the horse market and the bus station near the border with Warmen Eigen, one of the four mine shafts of the Prosper colliery was located up until the 1980s After the closure of mine III in 1986, it was almost completely demolished. In the summer of 1990, an urban development competition took place for the purpose of re-planning and redesigning the new wasteland. The contaminated soil under the former industrial plant was rehabilitated and finally the new Prosper on the former colliery site The new quarter between Rheinstahlstrasse, Gladbecker Strasse, Scharnhölzstrasse and Beckheide is divided into three sections. The eastern part is formed by the Beckheide housing estate with row and semi-detached houses. The west is characterized by a small retail center and multi-storey buildings angular multi-family row houses. The settlement cores, which are roughly different in storey height, are separated by the approximately eleven hectare Prosper Park.
At first glance, the shape of the Prosper Park is reminiscent of a mining dump, as it is often described here under the menu item “Dump”. However, the arched shape was only created after the colliery was demolished by landscape architects - which does not, however, rule out the possibility that tailings could also have been used for modeling, as a literary source actually describes the location of a tailings pile at this location. The main path runs in an elongated constant arc from south to northwest over this hill and has numerous branches to the edge, more to the east than to the west. Large parts of the park consist of extensive meadows or small birch groves or straight rows of trees.
Prosper Park also offers a small landmark, although the hidden location from the pedestrian point of view actually contradicts the landmark definition.
From the main path in the south you have a good view of the Beckstraße dump with Bottrop's landmark, the steel tetrahedron. In the north, in the north-west, the Haniel dump appears from this side, which looks a bit like a bathtub, on the summit of which you can even see the wooden cross and the totems, the artistically designed railway sleepers, with a good eye. ... "
ruhrgebiet-industriekultur.de/prosperpark.html

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Streuner

March 1, 2021

Green earthworks with interesting views of IBA settlements

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Location: Ruhr Region, Münster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Prosper Park: Mining Heritage Landmarks

1. Emscherblick Spoil Heap Event – View of Kokerei Prosper loop from Boy

2. Start of Kreuzweg – View of the Tetrahedron loop from Alsfeld

3. OLGA Park Oberhausen – Schwarzes Tor Viewing Tower, Olga Park loop from Oberhausen-Sterkrade

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