Au revoir Völklingen
This is the exit of one of the routes through the main exhibition about the technical details of iron production. They are shown interactively with…
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Railway track, Völklingen Ironworks
(ISO 100, f6.3 @ 25mm, 64sec., 22:00) This railway track cuts through the edge between the protected heritage area and the still active part of…
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Völklingen heritage site, view from the parking lot of a supermarket
(ISO 100, f8 @ 35mm, 5sec., 21:10) Völklingen has a population of roughly 40.000. At the economic height in 1965 almost every second citizen was…
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Blower house, Völklingen Ironworks
(ISO 100, f8 @ 24mm, 5sec., 14:57) It is impressively silent in the 6.000 squaremeters of this blower house today. Two massive machines weighing 400…
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Empty space, Völklingen
(ISO 100, f11 @ 25mm, 1/10sec., 20:20) This is right next to the exhibition grounds, taken from a bridge over the railway and not a…
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Völklingen Ironworks, view from the charging platform
(ISO 100, f8 @ 30mm, 1/125sec., 14:21) I am standing on the charging platform here approx. 27m above the ground and we are looking towards…
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Parking lot, Völklingen Ironworks
(ISO 100, f11 @ 25mm, 1/30sec., 19:46) This was one of the first images I took after I arrived in Völklingen and the making was…
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Blast furnace, Völklingen Ironworks
(ISO 100, f8 @ 27mm, 1/40sec., 14:13) The Völklingen ironworks, which closed on July 4th, 1986, was the first location from the heyday of heavy…
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Spillway, Bleilochtalsperre, Thuringia
(ISO 100, f8 @ 24mm, 1/25sec., 19:11) The name Bleilochtalsperre literally means “lead hole reservoir” and is derived from the former lead mines in this…