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Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord: Industrial Heritage Park

A former ironworks in Duisburg, Germany, is now a public park preserving industrial structures, including blast furnaces, offering free access.

Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, in the Ruhr area, was the Thyssen ironworks until 1985. The park preserves its main structures while reclaiming the land.

Visitors can explore three intact blast furnaces. Blast furnace number 5 allows public access to its summit via staircases and walkways, showcasing iron smelting.

The park offers extensive free access to the blast furnace and associated plants. Most of the site is explorable, showing tapping points and air injection levels.

The blast furnace is a vertical tube for smelting iron ore and carbon with air. The process involves carbon monoxide reducing iron oxide, producing molten iron and slag.

Visitors can ascend the furnace, reaching a 70-meter high platform. They can observe machinery, scrubbers, and the cooling water jacket.

At the top, visitors see the inclined plane for ore transport and flue pipes. A viewing platform offers views of the industrial landscape and structures.

This park is a large open-air industrial museum with amenities. It highlights the Ruhr area's industrial heritage.

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