August 2013 : Markus' Birthday Party



1          Journey to "Museumspark Rüdersdorf"
2          Landrover Tour in the Active Part
3          Back in the Historic Part
4          Last Station: The Pet Zoo

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^ToC 1 Journey to "Museumspark Rüdersdorf"

Because my new number of life years is PRIME, I decided to make a birthday party.

There were eleven guests and me (lucky there wasn't one more !-) We met at the S-Bahn station of Friedrichshagen, at 11 a.m.

Norden, Lisa und Luca, FHagen
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Then we went to the Museumspark Rüdersdorf by street car.

Most of the guests did not really know what was coming up, my standard answer was "Simply trust me ...!" --- and it worked !-)

The tram is a private founding from the begin of the last century, called Schöneicher-Rüdersdorfer Straßenbahn
(There is a wikipedia entry in the German language, but not in English, so could please some volunteer translate ?) And there is a private site Tram 88 / Waldstraßenbahn .

By chance we got one of the old, refurbished "TATRA" type cars, and the trip was very romantic!

It lasts less than thirty minutes, crossing the nice village of Schöneiche. Finally we reached the Museumspark Rüdersdorf, (see also wikipedia (German language only !-( )

This is the narrow road, on which nowadays the TOURISTS approach (the industrial access, still in work, is a little bit different, but at the other side of the area, 8 kilometers away !-)

Zufahrt zum Park
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The park consists of two parts: One historic, you can explore on your own, and the active chalk pit, the largest chalk mine in Europe. Of course there you're not allowed to stroll around on your own, but you can take a guided Landrover tour.

First we visited the chalk burning ovens from the 18th century, waiting for the Landrover tour to start.

Here some impressions:

Zubringer-Brücke zum Rumford-Ofen
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Rumford-Ofen
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Rumford-Ofen
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Rumford-Ofen
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This is a view to the ACTIVE part of the park, where the landrovers would bring us:

Blick über den Tagebau: Windräder
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Blick über den Tagebau: Zementfabrik
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Blick über den Tagebau: Zementfabrik und Windräder
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Auf dem Weg zum Glockenturm
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Starphoto Leander
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Starphoto Julius
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Waiting for the tour:

Familie MaVeLe (neben Landrover)
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Familie MaLiKa plus Dorian
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Familie vS plus MB
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Starfoto Baltasar
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^ToC 2 Landrover Tour in the Active Part

The following pictures have been taken on the tour. We were NOT PERMITTED to leave the car, it is much too dangerous. (Does'nt look like, does it?) So the quality of the photos is limited ...

in the pit
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A three million Euro excavator, 2500 horse powers, driven by a woman. (with joysticks !-) It is only for breaking the stone out of the wall, not for transportation.

in the pit
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Looking back to the historic part, you see the old tunnel mouths. The tunnels were filled with water, leading to the canals formerly used for transportation.

in the pit
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in the pit
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in the pit
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It is hart to get the dimensions, look e.g. ta the stairs leading up the mixing station, down there in the middle. The whole pit goes DOWN 110 meters, and sixty meters below sea level.
And please notice the yellow flower.

in the pit
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in the pit
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in the pit, Wetterschacht
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in the pit
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in the pit
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In the front you see the bunker from which the "master of dynamite" watches the explosion:

in the pit
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That is the driller which prepares the wholes for the explosion. The explosives are not secured specially: they take plain chemical fertilizer you get in every garden shop !-)

driller in the pit
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driller in the pit
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in the pit
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view out of the pit
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stones in the pit
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in the pit
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in the pit
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in the pit
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in the pit
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in the pit
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in the pit, rest of Heinitz-See
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At the VERY BOTTOM there is a trout farm!! (In the GDR the industrial complexes had to produce SOMETHING for the consumer market. This is the origin of this farm!)

trout waters in the pit
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in the pit
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in the pit
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in the pit
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in the pit
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in the pit
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in the pit
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^ToC 3 Back in the Historic Part

Back to civilisation, allowed to move again, we had a light lunch (no meat, no alcohol !-), but salad and yoghurt and fruit:

at lunch
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The garden of the "Magazin-Gebäude" is very colorful (please note the FLOWERS, not the parasol!-)

magazine building
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magazine building
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Here are we all:

Markus Birthday, group picture
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View back:

in the pit
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On the way to the next architectural high-lights:

Walk to the "Seilscheibenpfeiler"
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The first of these attractions looks like a gothic castle, but indeed is only a "Seilscheibenpfeiler". This nice German word means "Pillar carrying a rope wheel". This is part of the 18th/early 19th century transportation infrastructure, pulling whole railway carriages up out of the pit:

"Seilscheibenpfeiler"
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"Seilscheibenpfeiler"
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"Seilscheibenpfeiler"
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"Seilscheibenpfeiler"
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"Seilscheibenpfeiler"
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The next is a deflexion station for the cable car, which was the next generation of transportation:

cable car deflexion station
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The young guy was always the first to climb up, the older ones had a rest below. (NOT the camera man!-)

view from the cable car deflexion station
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cable car deflexion station
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cable car deflexion station, vS family
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cable car deflexion station, md
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climbing boy

cable car deflexion station, holes in the ground
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The absolute high-light is the "oven battery", sixteen to twenty-four chalk ovens in two rows (the construction was widely modified during the years). When approaching, you see not really much of it, but the EFFECT a few steps further is overwhelming:

oven battery
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oven battery
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oven battery
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This is the old chemistry factory. They made fertilizer out of chalk. Now they take movies there, like "Stalingrad". NO JOKE !-)

view to old factory
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view to old factory
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oven battery
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in the oven battery

^ToC 4 Last Station: The Pet Zoo

in the pet zoo
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in the pet zoo
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in the pet zoo
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in the pet zoo
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in the pet zoo
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in the pet zoo
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in the pet zoo
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in the pet zoo
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Back to the entry/exit, we have a last look to the other side of the canal tunnels:

canals in the Rüdersdorf park
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canals in the Rüdersdorf park
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Rolling home:

Tram back to Berlin
2013:08:24 17:24:04 52 deg 28' 30.46" N, 13 deg 41' 33.37" E direction indication  142.25 © ml
Tram back to Berlin
2013:08:24 17:24:52 52 deg 28' 18.56" N, 13 deg 41' 24.68" E direction indication  225.25 © ml

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