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Director's Villa – Pond on the Rheinelbe Halde loop from Gelsenkirchen

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Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

Ruhr Region

Director's Villa – Pond on the Rheinelbe Halde loop from Gelsenkirchen

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Director's Villa – Pond on the Rheinelbe Halde loop from Gelsenkirchen

01:25

5.27km

50m

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: July 6, 2026

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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113 m

Director's Villa

Highlight • Historical Site

In the area there are some very representative villas from the Wilhelminian period to the 1920s.

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325 m

Wissenschaftspark Gelsenkirchen – Former Rheinelbe Coal Mine

Highlight • Historical Site

Science park - not knowledge... tsrat. The former industrial site is a center of innovative and creative companies.

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1.07 km

Himmelstreppe on the Rheinelbe spoil heap

Highlight • Monument

Great view from up here if the weather just plays along. 😀

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2.76 km

Mining monuments on the slag heap in the Ruhr region

Highlight • Monument

The way up to the heap you will find various souvenirs from the mining industry in the region

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3.17 km

Sky Staircase on Halde Rheinelbe

Highlight • Monument

At about 100 meters above Gelsenkirchen and Bochum you can enjoy the view over the Ruhrgebiet.

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3.36 km

Pond on the Rheinelbe Halde

Highlight • Lake

Small pond halfway up the heap

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4.00 km

Windwaage Sculpture (Rheinelbe Slag Heap)

Highlight • Monument

The sculpture wind scale by Herman Prigann is in the sculpture park of the Halde Rheinelbe, the former Rheinelbe colliery.

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4.07 km

Rheinelbe Park Sculpture Forest

Highlight • Structure

The artist Herman Prigann created a forest of sculptures around the heap in the early 1990s, using waste materials from the industrial age such as pieces of wall, concrete blocks and old steel parts

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5.27 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

3.06 km

1.12 km

772 m

301 m

Surfaces

2.25 km

1.26 km

908 m

558 m

288 m

Elevation

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Weather

Thursday 23 July

23°C

11°C

16 %

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Max wind speed: 7.0 km/h

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Comments

October 28, 2021,Halde Rheinelbe

Today used the day off and the great weather and off we went to the sculpture park and then to the Rheinelbe dump. A nice tour and the view is fantastic again. With a clear view you can see some of the many heaps in the Ruhr area. Either you hike like me, but you can also go up the …

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January 27, 2025,(🇩🇪 E 2025-01-27) Rheinelbe-Halde - Himmelstreppe 5 km

Who says that you can't climb peaks and gain altitude in the middle of the Ruhr area?

Today we took advantage of the small window of sunshine during our lunch break to go on a hike with 🏭 industrial culture to the Rheinelbe slag heap between GE and BO and E.

An hour that is really worth it!

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April 27, 2024,Rundweg um die Halde Rheinelbe – Himmelstreppe Runde von Neustadt

A beautiful, varied route, but with a very difficult climb that I managed on all fours. My husband had a lot of trouble and kept slipping. It was also muddy because of the heavy rain and we were completely dirty. You can avoid this place by turning right instead of left at the stairs. The difficult loop was only intended …

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Director's Villa – Pond on the Rheinelbe Halde loop from Gelsenkirchen

Director's Villa

Wissenschaftspark Gelsenkirchen – Former Rheinelbe Coal Mine

Himmelstreppe on the Rheinelbe spoil heap

Mining monuments on the slag heap in the Ruhr region

Sky Staircase on Halde Rheinelbe

Pond on the Rheinelbe Halde

Windwaage Sculpture (Rheinelbe Slag Heap)

Rheinelbe Park Sculpture Forest

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