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Münster District

Ruhr Region

Himmelstreppe and View Over the Ruhr Area

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Himmelstreppe and View Over the Ruhr Area

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Himmelstreppe and View Over the Ruhr Area

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

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    June 14, 2019

    Running

    The heap can be run up nicely.
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    The highlight of the sculpture forest is, in the truest sense of the word, the ascent to the 85-meter-high spiral mountain in the south, the so-called "stairway to heaven". Here, the concrete relics of a Dortmund mine rise into the sky in Aztec style. As part of the IBA Emscherpark, the Rheinelbe slag heap was developed as a local recreation area and is now one of the landmarks of the Ruhr area. It is also part of the Industrial Heritage Route and represents a table mountain with an additional raised, unplanted pointed cone.
    gelsenkirchen.de/de/freizeit/ausfluege_und_sehenswuerdigkeiten/parks_und_halden/Skulpturenwald_Rheinelbe.aspx
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    February 27, 2025

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    Given the number of steps that have to be climbed here, I am immediately reminded of the – admittedly somewhat absurd-sounding – poem “Antigonish” by Hughes MEARNS (1875 to 1965). If you want to keep the meter, the translation of the first verse is:
    “Yesterday on the stairs
    I saw a man who wasn’t there.
    He wasn’t there today either.
    I wish, I wish he would go away.”
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    Location: Ruhr Region, Münster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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