The Pattberg spoil tip is a panorama of the industrial heritage route:
The Pattberghalde is one of the younger heaps in the Ruhr area. After the neighboring mine of the same name had received approval in the early 1960s, tailings were piled up here from 1964 to 1985 over an area of around 35 hectares. The highest point rises 64 m above ground.
In 1997, RAG handed over the tailings pile to the Ruhr Regional Association, which integrated it into the "Lower Rhine Landscape Park" in cooperation with the cities of Moers, Kamp-Lintfort, Neukirchen-Vluyn and Rheinberg. On the one hand, the planning of the park envisages ecological treatment, i.e. renaturation of watercourses, forest proliferation, creation of biotopes, orchards and hedges, on the other hand, a recreational area with environmentally friendly use through various leisure activities is to be created.
The heap is particularly popular with kite and model pilots, even though the annual kite festival that used to take place here has now moved to the Rheinpreussen heap. Anyone who climbs the heap has a wonderful view of the Lower Rhine landscape, but the extent to which industry and transport have shaped the area here does not remain hidden.