If you drive from the forest on the dirt road down to Oberwengerner road, you can experience a kind of "sunrise": In the meadow horizon appears in 1997 by the Spanish artist Diego Gomez Velasquez as a globe painted spherical gas container, which has long become a "landmark" of Weather has become. He is no longer in operation, a demolition is currently not planned.

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April 12, 2019

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Nice view of the other Ruhr side.

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July 12, 2023

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Good route to get from Oberwengern out of the valley to Volmarstein

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1. Ruhr Viaduct Over the Harkortsee – View of Albringhausen loop from Gevelsberg Hbf

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2. View of the Old Kohlenbahn – View of Albringhausen loop from Witten Hbf

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3. Kemnader See Weir – View of the Ruhr Weir loop from Gevelsberg-Knapp

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590m

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Distance 605 m

Uphill 10 m

Downhill 40 m

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Location: Wetter (Ruhr), Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis, Ruhr Region, Münster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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View of the Earth Globe Gas Holder Oberwengern

1. Ruhr Viaduct Over the Harkortsee – View of Albringhausen loop from Gevelsberg Hbf

2. View of the Old Kohlenbahn – View of Albringhausen loop from Witten Hbf

3. Kemnader See Weir – View of the Ruhr Weir loop from Gevelsberg-Knapp

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