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An old Garbage-Incineration-Plant [3/33]
...thanks to the many well-preserved scaffolding, you could explore the building from countless angles.
About the series (to which the Photo above belongs)
All photos of the series were shot at an abandoned garbage-incineration-plant. The plant is located near the city of Fürth (Germany) and was, according to information from the Internet, a pilot project of a famous German technology group. The stated goal was: via the smoldering of garbage, the city should be supplied with electricity.
But: the whole project became a big catastrophe. First, the costs exploded. In 1990, the cost was estimated at € 16 million, by 1995, the used sum had doubled and ultimately the total cost amounted to € 125 million! In addition, there was more trouble. A protest was formed among the citizens of Fürth, the plant was privatized, the hope for profit did not materialize and numerous incidents occurred right from the start. Already shortly after the commissioning in the year 1997 the operators had to fight with numerous complications (on a website of the city of Fürth are listed: material accumulation, software failure and release of smoldering gas). Already in 1998, after four weeks running time, the incineration plant came to a bitter end. With the occurrence of a material jam an important drum seal was destroyed and a cloud of toxic smoldering gas could escape. 73 people were injured and the plant was shut down forever.
In June 2018, 20 years after the shutdown, the owner announced the demolition of the complex. Some of the facade has already been torn open (at the beginning of July 2018), the view of the steel skeleton on one side is generously exposed.
Sources (in German):
www.fuerthwiki.de/wiki/index.php/M%C3%BCll-Schwelbrennanlage
www.nordbayern.de/region/fuerth/der-tag-an-dem-die-giftwo...
Highly recommended (including old sketches and already demolished parts of the building):
gesichterderstadt.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/die-mull-schwe...
About the post-processing
For editing I've used the Lightromm plug-in "Silver Efex Pro". More precisely: Preset Nr. 28 (in German: "kühle töne"), but partly with adjustments: I didn’t use the artificial grain nor the frame of the preset and sometimes I omitted the blue color filter. The selected sequence of photos should give the viewer the impression of a walk through the complex and it corresponds mostly to the actually gone way.
An old Garbage-Incineration-Plant [3/33]
...thanks to the many well-preserved scaffolding, you could explore the building from countless angles.
About the series (to which the Photo above belongs)
All photos of the series were shot at an abandoned garbage-incineration-plant. The plant is located near the city of Fürth (Germany) and was, according to information from the Internet, a pilot project of a famous German technology group. The stated goal was: via the smoldering of garbage, the city should be supplied with electricity.
But: the whole project became a big catastrophe. First, the costs exploded. In 1990, the cost was estimated at € 16 million, by 1995, the used sum had doubled and ultimately the total cost amounted to € 125 million! In addition, there was more trouble. A protest was formed among the citizens of Fürth, the plant was privatized, the hope for profit did not materialize and numerous incidents occurred right from the start. Already shortly after the commissioning in the year 1997 the operators had to fight with numerous complications (on a website of the city of Fürth are listed: material accumulation, software failure and release of smoldering gas). Already in 1998, after four weeks running time, the incineration plant came to a bitter end. With the occurrence of a material jam an important drum seal was destroyed and a cloud of toxic smoldering gas could escape. 73 people were injured and the plant was shut down forever.
In June 2018, 20 years after the shutdown, the owner announced the demolition of the complex. Some of the facade has already been torn open (at the beginning of July 2018), the view of the steel skeleton on one side is generously exposed.
Sources (in German):
www.fuerthwiki.de/wiki/index.php/M%C3%BCll-Schwelbrennanlage
www.nordbayern.de/region/fuerth/der-tag-an-dem-die-giftwo...
Highly recommended (including old sketches and already demolished parts of the building):
gesichterderstadt.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/die-mull-schwe...
About the post-processing
For editing I've used the Lightromm plug-in "Silver Efex Pro". More precisely: Preset Nr. 28 (in German: "kühle töne"), but partly with adjustments: I didn’t use the artificial grain nor the frame of the preset and sometimes I omitted the blue color filter. The selected sequence of photos should give the viewer the impression of a walk through the complex and it corresponds mostly to the actually gone way.