Paradise
Paradise
Flora and fauna have recaptured their terrain in many parts of this vast site. And so the World Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte is not only an exemplary place of industrialisation, but also a place of nature. This is most evident in "Paradise", the green wilderness where the coking plant used to be.
Like a mysterious earthly Garden of Eden behind an impregnable wall, it rested untrodden for almost 25 years: the area between the coking plant and the Saar. Animals and plants were able to come together, undisturbed, in the shade of the blast furnace group – truly paradisical. Fish, frogs and lizards meet foxes and wild boar. Today, birch trees and buddleia flourish amongst the former coke batteries in an area that was once one of the toughest places to work, where heat, dust and fire reigned. What used to be "hell" is now truly a paradise
Discover the paradise Garden
Sea of flowers "Paradise"
Copyright: Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte | Karl Heinrich Veith
Beehives in front of the mural "The Beekeeper" by urban artist CASE
Copyright: Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte | Karl Heinrich Veith
Beehives in the wild garden "Paradise"
Copyright: Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte | Corinna Schneider
Nature envelops the pipes and plant components of the coking plant.
Copyright: © Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte / Thorsten Jochum
On winding paths through the "paradise"
Copyright: Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte | Karl Heinrich Veith
The leopard of the artist "Mosco" on the "Leopard Trail" in Paradise
Copyright: © Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte / Ralf Beil
Summer lilac facing the blast furnace group
Copyright: Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte | Karl Heinrich Veith
Serpentine path through paradise with broken concrete block in the foreground
Copyright: Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte | Karl Heinrich Veith
KingKong in Paradise, sculpture by Ottmar Hörl
Copyright: Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte | Karl Heinrich Veith