The Halde Rheinpreußen is a

spoil tip A spoil tip (also called a boney pile, culm bank, gob pile, waste tip or bing) is a pile built of accumulated ''spoil'' – waste material removed during mining. Spoil tips are not formed of slag, but in some areas, such as England and Wales, ...

in the German city

Moers Moers (; older form: ''Mörs''; Dutch language, Dutch: ''Murse'', ''Murs'' or ''Meurs'') is a German List of cities and towns in Germany, city on the western bank of the Rhine, close to Duisburg. Moers belongs to the district of Wesel (distric ...

which lies above its ambit. It is part of the category ''Panoramas'' of the Ruhr Industrial Heritage Trail. In 1963, the spoil tip was heaped up with materials of the pit 5/9, i.e. the mine ''Zeche Rheinpreußen''. In autumn 1999, the artist Otto Piene, co-founder of the ''ZERO'' group, presented his idea of a mining lamp memorial called ''Geleucht'' for the first time. Between 2005 and 2006, 35 lamp poles were assembled on the spoil tip for red illumination of an area of . In 2007, the circa and heavy landmark was constructed on the Halde Rheinpreußen. Since the dedication of the ''Geleucht'' on 17 September 2007, the mining lamp memorial and the lamp poles are illuminated every night. The stairs to the observation deck are opened on a regular basis.

Gallery

File:Halde Rheinpreussen Luft 2009-09.jpg, Aerial photograph File:Halde Rheinpreußen, Grubenlampe, III retouched.jpg, The ''mining lamp'' memorial at day... File:Grubenlampe, Halde Rheinpreußen, Blaue Stunde, 2010-10-09, I.jpg, ...and illuminated during the

blue hour The blue hour (from French ; ) is the period of twilight (in the morning or evening, around the nautical stage) when the Sun is at a significant depth below the horizon. During this time, the remaining sunlight takes on a mostly blue shade. Th ...

References

External links

The Halde Rheinpreußen
on the website of the Industrial Heritage Trail
Information about the spoil tips of Moers on its website
Moers Mining in Germany Mountains and hills of North Rhine-Westphalia Artificial hills German Industrial Heritage Trail sites {{Wesel-geo-stub