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zollverein - inside the coking plant
please View On Black
Zollverein - Kokerei/Coking Plant (HDR)
The coking plant at Zollverein had been a "no-go-area” until mid 1993.
Today the artificial channel is opened for ice skating in the winter.
Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex
(from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
The Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex is a large former industrial site in the city of Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It has been inscribed into the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites since December 14, 2001 and is one of the anchor points of the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
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Shaft 12 (seen on my first two images of this Series) became the main supplier of new central coking plant from 1961 with its 192 ovens, which was again designed by Fritz Schupp. After an expansion in the early 1970s, Zollverein placed among the most productive coking plants worldwide with around 1.000 workers and an output of up to 8.600 tons of coke a day on the so-called dark side. The white side of the plant produced side products such as ammonia, raw benzene and raw tar.
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On its 25th session in December 2001, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) declared both the sites of the shafts 12 and 1/2 and the cokery a World Heritage Site.
for more information:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zollverein_Coal_Mine_Industrial_Com...
de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zeche_Zollverein
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zollverein - inside the coking plant
please View On Black
Zollverein - Kokerei/Coking Plant (HDR)
The coking plant at Zollverein had been a "no-go-area” until mid 1993.
Today the artificial channel is opened for ice skating in the winter.
Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex
(from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
The Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex is a large former industrial site in the city of Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It has been inscribed into the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites since December 14, 2001 and is one of the anchor points of the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
[...]
Shaft 12 (seen on my first two images of this Series) became the main supplier of new central coking plant from 1961 with its 192 ovens, which was again designed by Fritz Schupp. After an expansion in the early 1970s, Zollverein placed among the most productive coking plants worldwide with around 1.000 workers and an output of up to 8.600 tons of coke a day on the so-called dark side. The white side of the plant produced side products such as ammonia, raw benzene and raw tar.
[...]
On its 25th session in December 2001, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) declared both the sites of the shafts 12 and 1/2 and the cokery a World Heritage Site.
for more information:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zollverein_Coal_Mine_Industrial_Com...
de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zeche_Zollverein
n