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Horst, Germany - 26th December 2009
I went for a walk along the Ruhr in Essen-Horst. The neighbors go right down to the river in some places. Here's the club house of a local sportsclub and many multicolored site caravans. It's a beautiful clear winter day in this industrial landscape. This is the old Horster Mühle (mill). Here's the weir that produces the faster water flow and the part where boats can pass it: Directly above it on the Ruhrhöhen (heights) is the Villa Vogelsang. It was built for the industrial Friedrich Ludwig Niemann according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkels in 1840. He didn't live in it very long and later the Vogelsang family that had the rights for the coalmining close by took over as premier industrials in the neighborhood. Here's the main hall that housed many of the neccassary functions. Above me in the picture you can see an an old tower that's now in someone's backyard but probably belong to the Vryburg, a circular hillfort from Carolingian times that's located on that site of the river. I took a look back to the Villa and weir before passing over the new footbridge next to the old railroad bridge and taking in the view toward Bochum:
Posted Dec 29, 2009, 12:05 pm Last edited Dec 29, 2009, 12:07 pm by Apperveilchen [Quote]
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