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17.8. - Cycling to Duisburg

Published: 20.08.2019

We wanted to get to know this area that we've seen in Schimanski, the football games, and in some films, but still don't know.

So we stayed at Wasserfreunde Ruhrmühle. It is located south of the Ruhr in Bochum Dahlhausen.

The Ruhr area is like a caricature of itself. They speak like on TV! You see pumped up, tattooed citizens with a background of migraines, whom you better not look in the eye, because then, who knows.

Many colorful people, but, as Katja said, dressed differently, it somehow has an effect

Cycling, you see more. Besides, the Ruhr area is just one big traffic jam. But the drivers are good, unlike in Lower Saxony.


Meadows along the Ruhr. In the heart of the Ruhr area
Meadows along the Ruhr. In the heart of the Ruhr area


Also along the Ruhr.


Villa Vogelsang. One of the exploiters lived here.
Villa Vogelsang. One of the exploiters lived here.


Goats are everywhere, even in the Ruhr area.
Goats are everywhere, even in the Ruhr area.

But then we left the Ruhr, bought drinks and batteries for the bike navigation in Steele. Continued through Essen. You wouldn't believe how hilly the Ruhr area is.

We had lunch in Mühlheim. No joke, the best Indonesian food I've ever had. I even wrote my first Google review because I hope Mühlheim continues to be well supplied with food.

If someone ends up there: Dayang Sumbi


From there onwards straight to the west and Duisburg.

The Duisburg inner harbor. Schimanski would no longer find his way around.
The Duisburg inner harbor. Schimanski would no longer find his way around.


On the other side of the Ruhr is Meiderich. Nowadays, a part of Duisburg and the 'M' in MSV Duisburg. By the way, Meidericher SV was one of the founding members of the Bundesliga.

Anyway, there is a landscape park of a former steelworks there. I'll spare you dozens of technical photos. But we were all the way up at the blast furnace. And the name says it all. About 100 meters. You can look around.


View from the blast furnace, whatever it is.
View from the blast furnace, whatever it is.


We wanted to go back by train. But nope, replacement service due to construction work.

My first currywurst in the Ruhr area; Essen main station.
My first currywurst in the Ruhr area; Essen main station.




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