Dark, dirty, smoky - that’s everything in the “Pott” region! So that you’ll never get the idea to visit the Ruhr Region, we’re presenting the TOP 5 reasons not to! But then we must get right into the stadium, and after the football is over go to the chip shop to polish off a delicious “Mantaplatte” (local dish with wurst and chips)! !

Take a look at Borbeck Castle, a baroque moated castle which was the preferred residence of the Abbess of Essen starting in the 14th century. Impossible!

 

 

Right! Except for being astonished at a UNESCO World Heritage Site, tightrope climbing between abandoned blast furnaces, diving in the gasometer, hiking on waste dumps, and skiing in an indoor ski hall. Oh, and 1,000 monuments, 200 museums and 120 theatres. Except for that, we’ve got nothing.

Even sunsets are nothing in the Ruhr Valley! Just take a look at this panorama from the Rhein-Herne Canal!

 

Awful! For example, this comic gem ..."Tiger & Turtle" the first walk-through roller coaster in the world. It stands in the middle of the Heinrich-Hildebrand heights in the Duisburg “Angerpark” (pleasure grounds). Who came up with such an idea? Oh yes: the artists Ulrich Genth and Heike Mutter. 

Their currywurst is just as bad! Who knows what inspired Herbert Grönemeyer to write a song about our Ruhrpott Currywurst. And we have funny phrases here, like "Schimanski-Teller" or "Bottroper Schlemmerplatte". Can you imagine?