One of the blast furnaces at the Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord. Formerly a blast furnace complex, now a country park. The buildings here are slowly broken down by the nature ...
The blast furnace complex was built in 1902 by the "Rheinische Stahlwerke bei zu Meiderich Ruhrort", and was later taken over by the Thyssen Group. During the Second World War badly damaged, but it was in the 50s rebuilt. In 1985, the blast furnaces of the complex had become too small to be even more cost-effective, and the complex was closed. Between 1991 and 2002 the site was converted into a public park.
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