Halde Rheinpreußen

The stockpile Rheinpreußen is a 74 m above ambient level backfill tailings dam in Moers- sea basin. It has a total height of 103 m above sea level. NN. Owner since 2001 of the Regional Association Ruhr.

The overburden is derived from the nearby colliery Rhenish Prussia, which was the first left-bank mine. So this pile was also one of the first green heaps in the Ruhr.

In order to expand the heap a landmark, the Ruhr Regional Association decided in late 2005 to build on the heap a hundred feet high tower in the form of a miner's lamp. The design dates back to the artist Otto Piene.

Observation tower / monument mining lamp

The initiative to build the landmark mining lamp took Konrad Gappa, the Otto Piene's idea of the landmark in Duisburg experienced. He founded with mining and smelting people as well as the residents ' Förderkreis landmark miner's lamp '. In many years of talking this convinced the city of Moers, the Wesel district, the Ruhr Regional Association and the state government of NRW thereof, to realize for the area and worldwide unique artistic representation to a mining region. 100 personal and more than 2,000 corporate members of the Sponsorship show the great public interest, supported by mining companies and banks, in particular of ThyssenKrupp AG, which was responsible for planning free and so brought the funds raised to almost 500,000 euros. Today, the support group pays for example, the cost of lighting and support of the largest mining work of art in the world.

In 1998, the Kultur Ruhr GmbH decided at the International Building Exhibition Emscher Park, expand some heaps to artistic landmarks. The Director of the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg, Christoph Brockhaus, commissioned the artist Otto Piene, install the Geleucht as planned. The idea of the artist, the entire heap to illuminate red, however, was limited to the north-western side.

The first part of the work was completed on 30 March 2006. On 8 August 2007 burned in the modeled pit lamp light for the first time. The light rehearsal took place in the presence of Otto Piene. Since then, in the evening 35 light poles dive an area of ​​about 8,000 square meters of the heap in a red light.

The inauguration of the landmark took place on 17 September 2007 in the presence of the artist and about 1,500 participants. Nearly 1,000 visitors to the landmark on the weekends show the great public interest. The light tower can be visited, an internal staircase leading to the 9 -meter high observation deck. From there you can see the industrial landscape of the Lower Rhine River and the estuary of the old and new Emscher and the Rhine.

The art work and the support group found to be especially commended the fact that Konrad Gappa was one of the twelve Federal culturally engaged citizens, the Federal President Horst Köhler invited to his summer festival 2008. In the park of Schloss Bellevue Gappa could imagine the landmark in picture and sound to the President and the more than 3,000 guests.

Others

29 August 2009 for the first time found the Kite Festival on the heap instead of Rhenish Prussia (not as in previous years on the heap Pattberg ).

Radio amateurs use the Bergehalde Rheinpreußen for Field Days. In the Dragon celebrations in 2011 and 2012, the amateur radio installed to their antennas to antenna dragon (as Marconi 1901). The stockpile Rheinpreußen has the project ' mining and amateur radio ' the Mining Activity number DL082.