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Photographs of unique nature, old castles and palaces, but also decaying lost places and historic graveyards

06/09/2026

City lights in my hometown Recklinghausen
I tried my hand at street photography here...
Using a small camera and a prime lens, I captured the atmosphere on a shopping street just a few minutes from my front door.

06/09/2026

The Mourning Young Lady
This statue, located at a grave in Cologne’s Melaten Cemetery, is over a hundred years old.
What timeless lines and what beautiful stonework!

06/09/2026

Play of colors at sunrise
September 2020, at 6:30 in the morning.
On foot with the camera, the tripod and the backpack with breakfast on the way in a pristine heathland.

05/09/2026

Not the underside of a spaceship.....but the ceiling of a party tent.

05/09/2026

Work boots hanging from hooks in the pithead bathhouse.
When the colliery was still in operation, this facility served as the bathhouse for 2,800 miners.
Attempts were made to extract coal from a depth of 1,100 meters, but the seams were riddled with fractures and faults. The mine never operated profitably.
Construction began in 1977; operations started in 1984 and ceased in 2015. Demolition is taking place now, in 2021. Everything has been blown up or torn down, resulting in a volume of 12,000 to 15,000 cubic meters of rubble.

05/09/2026

The Tetraeder at sunrise on a cold February morning in 2026.

The Prosper coal mine operated right in the city of Bottrop. Coal was extracted there. From 1969 to 1993, the waste material left over from mining was dumped on the surrounding meadows and fields. This created the spoil heap on Beckstrasse, covering an area of 33 hectares. The heap grew with the waste rock (as the miners called it) until it reached a height of 70 meters in the city. Because the waste rock is separated from the coal by washing, it is also known as a washing heap. After mining operations ceased, the Beckstrasse spoil heap was landscaped and officially opened to the public.

The Bottrop Tetraeder is one of the most visited tourist attractions in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a three-sided pyramid made of steel. With sides measuring 60 meters, the sculpture is enormous. The Tetraeder houses three large viewing platforms. The structure consists of 210 tons of steel and pipes with a total length of 1500 m. It rests on four reinforced concrete columns.

05/09/2026

Colors at sundown in the heathland
Located just outside the Haltern Water Reservoir, the 90-hectare "Westruper Heide" is a impressive heathland. The Westruper Heathland has been made in 1937 under natural protection and is today a popular destination.The habitat mosaic of heathland provides numerous, now endangered plant and animal species a home.
in the area there are the following, particularly sensitive landscape characteristics:
-Sand heaths inland dunes,
-Sand dry grassland on inland dunes,
-rare and endangered juniper stands on dwarf shrub heaths
-nutrient-poor wetland ecosystems (Heideweiher).

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04/09/2026

Portrait of a Mechelen chicken at the Recklinghausen animal park.
The Mechelen chicken is now considered an endangered breed—due in no small part to population decimation caused by the Second World War, various diseases, and increasing industrialization. Originally derived from the "Vlaamse Koekoek" (Flemish Cuckoo)—a barred landrace—this Belgian national breed takes its name from its place of origin, the Flemish city of Mechelen. It is also frequently referred to as the Mechelen Cuckoo. Officially recognized in Belgium in 1898, the breed has since played a significant genetic role in the development of many other heavy chicken breeds.

04/09/2026

The Orange Corner

04/09/2026

Detail of a tombstone at Melaten Cemetery in Cologne, Germany.

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