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Gladbeck

View of Halden Graf Moltke III / IV

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View of Halden Graf Moltke III / IV

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View of Halden Graf Moltke III / IV

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

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    November 27, 2022

    The heap is completely fenced. And yet it is something special - it harbors an old secret inside.
    When the bombings increased towards the end of the Second World War, miners dug a tunnel into the large tailings dump. It was a tunnel with numerous side rooms and branches. The mighty mountain masses offered good protection for people. The so-called Moltke tunnel was converted into a hospital in 1945, in the last year of the war. It should provide protection for staff and patients. This hospital tunnel still exists today, but is not accessible. On the contrary: Due to the danger of collapse, all access points are sealed and the heap is cordoned off all around. In places, there have even been cave-ins when the ceiling of the tunnel collapsed under the pressure of the weight of the overburden and the forest that had grown over the many decades. At times, a declaration as a memorial was considered, but was rejected.

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      January 5, 2022

      Information on the Haldenwelt in Gladbeck - "Braucker Alpen" can be found at halden.ruhr/haldenlandschaft-gladbeck.html

      The Graf Moltke III / IV heaps are not accessible.

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        February 13, 2025

        @Rapunzel's tip is completely wrong! She is talking about the Graf Moltke I+II slag heap, now also known as the Steinhalde because it is located on Steinstrasse.
        Graf MOLTKE III/IV is closed because it is still burning inside, or rather smoldering in a controlled manner. Small wildfires break out again and again in hot summers, and it could often have been discarded cigarettes if the fire started at the foot of the slag heap, as was the case most recently with the major fire in 2019.

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