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The previous price was NZ$12 and current price is NZ$9 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 1h 36m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

  • Dive into a post-industrial wasteland where nature rewrites the rules of survival. On this captivating journey through the Hansa coke plant, you will witness a slow, silent, and slightly eerie battle. Discover how pioneer plants, mutated fungi, and artificially created landscapes devour a century of heavy industry, toxic coal dust, and brutalist architecture. This is not a storey of untouched wilderness; it is a raw, triumphant narrative about biological adaptation in the face of extreme pollution.

    • 2.8 km self-guided tour with 6 stations over 96 min.
    • Ideal for everyone interested in spirituality, myths & nature and history & memory
      Excitingly told in a podcast style by experts and locals
    • Suitable audio content, AI guide, and navigation via the app

Activity location

  • Kokerei Hansa
    • Emscherallee 11
    • 44369, Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Emscherallee 11
    • 11 Emscherallee
    • 44369, Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

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Podcast Tour Dortmund Triumph of Nature at the Hansa Coke Plant in Multilingual

  • Activity duration is 1 hour and 36 minutes1h 36m
    1h 36m
  • Opening hours: Sun 12:00 am-11:59 pm
  • English
Price details
NZ$11.77
NZ$9.42 x 2 AdultsNZ$18.84
Total
The previous price was NZ$23.54 and current price is NZ$18.84
20% off

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Exciting audio output in podcast style with experts and locals
  • Inclusions
    Interactive guide in the app for questions about history and surroundings
  • Inclusions
    Verified facts incorporated into an exciting storey
  • Inclusions
    Point-to-point navigation between stops

Know before you book

    • Service animals allowed
    • Public transport options are available nearby
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Kokerei Hansa

  • 10m
The historic entrance area, where the workers washed off the toxic coal dust, now serves as a threshold to nature's biological purification processes.

Kokerei Hansa

  • 10m
The huge former mechanical lung of the facility, where the silence of the preserved machines contrasts with the buzzing of the settling insects.

Kokerei Hansa

  • 10m
The site of the violent thermal cooling, which left behind a highly specific, humid microclimate that favours rare, carnivorous mosses and ferns.

Kokerei Hansa

  • 10m
The crossing of the Emscher, once Europe's dirtiest open sewage canal, is today the scene of a billion-euro ecological restoration project.

Lindberghstraße 51

  • 10m
The foot of a completely artificial mountain, piled up from World War rubble and industrial waste and now sealed and planted as a living experiment of constructed ecology.

Lindberghstraße 51

  • 10m
The panoramic view, which offers a wide view of the industrial ruins sunken in green and symbolises the permanent fusion of human history and ecological processes.

Location

Activity location

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    Kokerei Hansa
    • Emscherallee 11
    • 44369, Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Emscherallee 11
    • 11 Emscherallee
    • 44369, Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

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