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Showing posts with label steel works. Show all posts
Showing posts with label steel works. Show all posts
2010-10-14
Still making steel
Although the iron works I have been showing over the past few days are well and truly closed, some of the steel making tradition lives on in Völklingen, as in this factory on the banks of the Saar.
This is the last of my latest series of photos of Völklingen and thus represents the end of a cycle of photos that I have taken on the Vélo Vis-à-Vis bike trail. The main circular path is ca. 330km long (50/50 Germany/France), although I must have covered about 500km as I did the path in stages and used the radial paths, too. It is a great mix of German and French, hills and plains, rural and industrial, ancient and modern. I can recommend it to anyone. For more info in French and German see http://www.velovisavis.eu - note the appropriate eu URL. I have tried to tag my photos along the path.
2009-09-30
Water tower
Originally built in 1936 to hold cooling water for the steel works, now a restaurant and cinema complex.
The tower has a web page with photos of the interior: http://www.wasserturm-nk.de/wasserturm/.
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