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Organ Festival Plus

is a music festival, which since its founding in 1989 under the artistic direction of the initiator, Dr. Heinz-Gerd Stevens stands.It is organized by town Bottrop.The festival is under the patronage of the bishop of Essen performed in churches and at other concert venues in Bottrop.The combined annual festival held in January, the organ with other instruments and various art forms such as film, dance or visual arts.As part of the concerts were a number of works by artists such Jurg Baur , Sir Malcolm Arnold and Harald Genzmer premiered. In addition, rarely-performed works for organ and orchestra and oratorio works in the context of organ PLUS revived.Besides the concerts there are excursions, master classes, exhibitions and events for children.

Movie Park

is a theme park with real movie studios in Bottrop-Kirchhellen. It consists of 6 areas based on the topic "fascination film".The park was opened in June 1996 as "Warner Bros. Movie World Germany" on the former territory of the amusement park "Traumlandpark", which had already replaced an earlier attraction called "Märchenwald". During the time from 1992 to 1993, a short lived theme park called "Bavaria Filmpark" existed in this location as well. The laying of the cornerstone was in May 1994.At the end of 1999, Warner Bros. Movie World started a cooperation with Six Flags Inc. As part of this cooperation, Warner Bros. gave the license rights to Six Flags, who in turn managed the park under the name Warner Bros. Movie World as a licencee.The park is divided up into 6 areas each with their own collection of attractions.

Schloss Beck

is a Baroque castle in Bottrop, Germany, planned and built as a “maison de plaisance” between 1766 and 1777 by Johann Conrad Schlaun. It is currently run as an amusement park.Although the building was designed as a palatial residence, by the end of the 18th century Beck Castle had become a distillery for schnaps. It came into the possession of the Metternich family around 1850.Beck Castle is very popular with people in the surrounding area, especially for children from 3 to 14 years, because this small theme park is not well known and is rarely overcrowded. For the locals, it is a place to go with the family to enjoy the peace and quiet and to let the children play safely. The park management offers Christmas parties and weddings in large public rooms, as well as nightly dances and recitations.

Tetrahedron

is in the form of a three-sided pyramid, built and free walk-in observation tower on the heap Beck Street in Bottrop-Batenbrock.The steel construction with a side length of 60 m resting on four 9-m-high concrete piers and is located on the crest of about 120 m above sea level.high slope at the Beck Street.The stockpile has a prominence of about 90 meters to ambient levels.On a clear day you can the symbol of the city of Bottrop Essen Central Station recognition.The tetrahedron is due to the exposed position and height of an important landmark in the region. From the top you have a panoramic view across the industrial areas of the Ruhr.With good visibility about 40km away is the Rhine Tower in Duesseldorf seen.Like other Ruhr Halden is the tetrahedron of the route of industrial culture.

Halde Haniel

is at 159 meters, one of the highest slopes of the Ruhr.They were piled in the form of two spirals through overburden of coal mine Prosper Haniel.On the northern spiral will continue to operate bed.On the plateau of the southern spiral in 1992, the peak cross was erected, which in 1987 visit of Pope John Paul II made ​​by students of mine from guide rails and by the Pope during his visit had been ordained in the Ruhr.It forms the conclusion of the Cross with 15 stations on the Kleekamp begins, and also marks the pile tip as a landmark.By Tisa von der Schulenburg and Adolf Radecki Cross was designed in 1995 by Bishop Hubert Luthe inaugurated. Here are Good Friday regular processions take place.

Museum Square Bottrop

is a collection of museums in the city garden of Bottrop the first as a local museum and a little later with the collection of the artist born in Bottrop, Josef Albers and expanded on in its present form as "Josef Albers Museum Quadrat" 25 Was opened in June 1983.The permanent exhibition in the "square back", accessible via an architecturally interesting bridges in metal and glass, is the world's largest collection of the Albers-Bottroper honorary citizen.It includes an important collection of works by the Bauhaus artist , from the early expressionist works, self portraits, landscape paintings, glass work, Resopalgravuren to the "homage to the Square" in which he has dealt with the phenomenon of color.The German section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) in November 2006, the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat elected to the "Museum of the Year 2006".The jury praised the House for the "smart and fashionable tendencies of the independent art market for over 30 years consistently pursued exhibition and collection program."Exceptional is the combination of home and museum of modern art, and the fact that admission is free to the permanent exhibitions.

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