The Phoenix Lake in Dortmund

25 January 2013 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

Lake Phoenix from East Shore © Rainer Halama

Lake Phoenix from East Shore © Rainer Halama

Steel was refined in Dortmund-Hörde for 160 years. The name Phoenix stood for the blast furnace plant on the Phoenix-West site and the Hermannshütte oxygen steel plant on the Phoenix-Ost site. Structural change in the region brought the end of the steel era. In 2001 the plant site became one of the region’s many industrial wastelands.   read more…

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