Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord
About Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord
The company for steel works was founded by August Thyssen in the north of Duisburg in 1902. By 1908, the 200 hectares terrain was home to five blast furnaces as well as a pit, a coking plant and a foundry. Kraftzentrale (Central Power Plant) was built between 1906 and 1911. 170 metres long, 35 metres wide and 20 metres high, it is one of the largest industrial buildings in the Ruhr Metropolis. Its six gas blowers produced furnace blast and ten high power gas engines once drove the dynamos producing electricity for the plant as well as for the company housing nearby. In 1965 the machines fell silent and were later scrapped. In the casting hall the pig iron flowed out of the blast into a bed of molding sand, where it hardened into iron ingots. The bars were cooled, stacked and then transported for further processing.
Address and directions
Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord
with Kraftzentrale, Gießhalle, Gebläsehalle
Emscherstraße 71
47137 Duisburg-Meiderich
From Duisburg main station (Duisburg Hbf) tram line 903 (direction Dinslaken) until stop Landschaftspark-Nord, approx. 7 min by foot