Filming in Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, Duisburg
Rust red blast furnaces and ore bunkers on a reclaimed steelworks, lit with colored light after dark.
What Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord looks like
Rust red steel towers and pipework rise above grey concrete bunker walls and brick halls. Footpaths and old rail beds run between the structures, and no public streets cross the site. can be climbed to a viewing platform about 70 meters up, with a gantry of platforms and stairs wrapped around its shell. The three chimney stacks of the old furnaces are visible from a long way off.
The , the former power hall, is 170 meters long. It now works as an event hall. The steam blower house has been turned into a 500-seat theater. The has a roof and tiered seating. The , a former gas tank, holds Europe's largest indoor diving pool.
Piazza Metallica, the former steel mill center, is paved with 49 reused steel plates. The hold a climbing garden with about 400 routes, and the bunker gardens include a fern garden set on old railway ties.
Colored lighting by Jonathan Park picks out the industrial structures every evening until 01:00. A dusk sensor switches it on.
The park is laid out on two levels, with raised promenades above a lower water park. The Alte Emscher runs through it, with a promenade along the water.
Shot in Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord
The former steelworks plays District 12 in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, the 2023 Hunger Games film. Babylon Berlin, the television series set in the 1920s, filmed scenes in the disused ironworks. Enkel für Anfänger, a German comedy released in 2020, shot two days in May 2019 with a trailer village built in the middle of the industrial backdrop.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, 2023
The former steelworks
Played District 12, the coal mining district, Panem, a fictional era
The park stayed open to visitors during filming, with some viewpoints closed. The steelworks stands in for District 12, the coal mining district of Panem, which the production shot as a poor workers' quarter.
Babylon Berlin, television series
Played 1920s Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 1920s
Director Tom Tykwer filmed scenes in the park for the series. The disused ironworks were used to create the look of the 1920s.
What Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord can double for
Völklinger Hütte in Völklingen, Saarland, Germany
The Völklinger Hütte keeps six blast furnaces, a coke battery from 1897 and a gas blower engine from about 1900. Its furnaces date from close to the same decades as the Duisburg furnaces and power hall, so the industrial scale is comparable. Six furnaces can be seen together from the former coal track, so a wide shot of one tower needs a tighter frame to keep the others out. Try searching six blast furnaces now.
Henrichshütte in Hattingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
The Henrichshütte keeps a preserved blast furnace built in 1939, and the works now run as a museum. It is a later furnace than the Duisburg ones, so it is a looser match for the 1900s fabric. Frame tight on the furnace, since a wide shot takes in the museum works around it. Try searching preserved blast furnace museum now.
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