Photography in the Ruhr area - the best tips

There are many places in the Ruhr area that you can wonderfully photograph and stage. We show you the best tips and tricks in this article.

Photography in the Ruhr area: relics from the mining era

You will find so-called heaps everywhere in the Ruhr area. These are remnants from the underground days of the Ruhr area: deposits from slag and other mining material.

• From Halden you have the opportunity to view the Ruhr area from a completely new perspective: from above.
• Sometimes installations by artists are set up on a heap.
• For example, a large red lantern by the artist Otto Piene stands on the Rheinpreussen stockpile in Moers.
• Shortly after sunset, the LED spotlights in the lantern are activated and it begins to distribute light over the entire heap.
• The stockpile of Rheinpreussen is a very beautiful picture motif, especially in the evening hours, but the lantern is also an eye-catcher during the day.
• The Haniel stockpile is also recommended. There is another work of art there.
• On the way up you can walk a kind of way of the cross. Church members also like to celebrate and celebrate this.
• Once you get to the top, you can see the art installation. You can find some pictures of this in our picture gallery.

Photo motifs in the Ruhr area - industrial culture

In Duisburg you will find the Duisburg-Nord landscape park, which is home to several disused industrial buildings. Ore was smelted and processed here during mining times.

• The buildings have been recaptured by nature and you can admire an extraordinary spectacle between nature and industry.
• You can also visit a blast furnace here.
• The blast furnace 5 is connected to a viewing platform for visitors by a steel staircase.
• In bad weather conditions, however, the access is closed, since the blast furnace then harbors the risk of injury.

Before you go on a discovery tour, have a look at our CHIP professional workshop: Here you will learn how you can easily take better photos.

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You can find these totems on the tip of the Haniel stockpile.

They come from the Basque artist and sculptor Agustín Ibarrola.

The lighting effects embellish the totems in the dark.