Ruhr area anyone? -Ruhrpott, Revier, ...

[stonydeluxe]

Hi everyone.

I was just wondering if there are more rangefinder-addicts living in the most beautiful part of Germany, the Ruhrpott. Or maybe there are some people planning to spend their vacation here?

Who's with me?

 

[rxmd]

Not any more. I went to school in Bochum, though. I still have family there. It felt a bit like growing up in a tough town. It did provide me with a good acquired taste for apocalyptic post-industrial wastelands 😛

I do have a photo project that I think of doing one day when I'm back in Germany, and that has to do with street signs and place names. There's a lot of those in the Ruhr area that ring with the history of the place, like Essen-Kupferdreh ("copper lathe") going back to the 16th century, and then the 19th century industrialization with Bochum-Stahlhausen (literally "steelborough"), but also sentimental names like Mülheim-Heimaterde ("home earth") or imperial leftovers like the Unser Fritz mine in Herne ("Our Fred", referring to Emperor Frederick II who reigned briefly in 1888 and was hugely popular). I'd like to combine and overlay those with portraits of inhabitants to see if there's a connection, if the identity of the place becomes part of the identity of the people.

 

[stonydeluxe]

Sounds like an interesting project. I used to live in Stahlhausen for half a year, too short for identifying with it completely...

 

[ath]

I'm living quite close in the cologne area. But the most beautiful area is obviously where I live ;-)

 

[chknde]

I grew up in Luedenscheid - quite close to the Ruhrgebiet. I visited Dortmund very often. Still love it an have friends there.

Christoph

 

[Florian1234]

I'm around 3 to 4 hours away, so it does not count.

 

[ferider]

My parents are from there .... they met at the University of Bonn and got married in the "Koelner Dom". I've been there many times as a kid. Very friendly people, good food and beer 🙂 Was in Duesseldorf 6 months ago (business). Wish I could go back soon.

Roland.

 

[maddoc]

I was born in Bad-Godesberg (now Bonn), grow up there and went to university in Bonn. My uncle lives in Duisburg since the early 70s and I often visited him so I remember the latest steam railways and also the slightly yellow tinted evening sky from all the dust emissions (coal and steel producing). Some 60 years ago nylons that were hang outside for drying after washing got small holes etched into by the the sulfuric acid containing rain.