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Rusty Pictures

Open-Cast Mining and Industrial Architecture in Eastern Germany

Photo: A cylindrical metal coal gasification furnace stands on a low brick base. The door is wide open. Pipes in various stages of corrosion shed bright-red rust.

Gigantic steel pipes at Leuna, 1991

Leuna chemical plant near Merseburg, huge steel pipes in the Winkler plant shortly before demolition, July 1991

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Photo: A cylindrical metal coal gasification furnace stands on a low brick base. The door is wide open. Pipes in various stages of corrosion shed bright-red rust.

Gigantic steel pipes at Leuna, 1991

Photo: The base of two huge chimneys and a yellow brick factory building, seen from below in soft afternoon light. A lattice girder and old electricity lines cross the top of the picture.

Chimneys at Lauchhammer coal plant before demolition, 1990

Photo: The end. The photo shows the bucket wheel and part of the boom. Seven buckets are visible on the wheel, which has a diameter of several metres and is resting on a pile of sand.

Rusting bucket wheel excavator

Photo: Metal surface in the coal-to-gas plant showing different colours of rust with vertical streaking created by rainwater. A shadow falling across the steel creates an impression of depth. In the middle there is a joint with large rivets.

Rust composition in Leuna, 1991


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