Tag / world heritage site
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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 a bit bizarre: While I positioned my tripod some guys in their 20’ies surrounded me with their cars. They circled around me with their engines roaring. I completely ignored them and tried to compose the frame. After a while they stopped it and parked a…
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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 industrialization to become a UNESCO world cultural heritage site in 1994. They are now the most significant surviving ironworks from the 19th and 20th centuries in the world. Significant both as a record of industrial progress and decline and as recognition of the ingenuity and…
