Tetrahedron Bottrop – Mottbruchhalde Crater loop from Halde Ellinghorst

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Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

Ruhr Region

Bottrop

Gladbeck

Tetrahedron Bottrop – Mottbruchhalde Crater loop from Halde Ellinghorst

Hard

4.3

(9)

hikers

Tetrahedron Bottrop – Mottbruchhalde Crater loop from Halde Ellinghorst

06:02

22.8km

210m

Hiking

Hard hike. Very good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 19, 2026

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Boyetal-Ost

Natroper Feld

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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1.43 km

Boyetal-Ost

Nature Reserve

5.52 km

Tetrahedron Bottrop

Highlight • Monument

The view from the highest platform is great, but not for people with a fear of heights, as the way up leads over grating steps. Apart from that, the platforms sway a little as they are attached by wire ropes.

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5.82 km

Stairs to the Tetrahedron (Tetraeder)

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fastest way up and down to / from the tetrahedron. With beautiful weather the weather is always a bit fuller.

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12.8 km

Cable pulley from the Mathias Stinnes mine on Halde 19

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One of the smaller heaps on the way to Glabeck.
Without trails.

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14.0 km

Halde 22

Peak

16.1 km

Mottbruchhalde

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From up here you have a great view when the weather is good.

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16.1 km

View of Halden Graf Moltke III / IV

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The heap is completely fenced. And yet it is something special - it harbors an old secret inside.
When the bombings increased towards the end of the Second World War, miners dug a tunnel into the large tailings dump. It was a tunnel with numerous side rooms and branches. The mighty mountain masses offered good protection for people. The so-called Moltke tunnel was converted into a hospital in 1945, in the last year of the war. It should provide protection for staff and patients. This hospital tunnel still exists today, but is not accessible. On the contrary: Due to the danger of collapse, all access points are sealed and the heap is cordoned off all around. In places, there have even been cave-ins when the ceiling of the tunnel collapsed under the pressure of the weight of the overburden and the forest that had grown over the many decades. At times, a declaration as a memorial was considered, but was rejected.

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16.3 km

Mottbruchhalde Crater

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Magnificent panoramic view over the pot and on surrounding heaps.

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20.1 km

Wittringen Moated Castle

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Very beautiful castle, in the middle of the water. A great sight from all sides and the castle appears very well preserved. There is a restaurant in the middle.

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20.5 km

Pond and view of the memorial

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As early as 1895, the Landwehr- und Kriegerverein Gladbeck was busy erecting a memorial for the fallen soldiers of the wars of liberation against Napoleon (1813-1815) and the Franco-Prussian War of 1879/1871. However, the draft was not pursued further, and the funds collected were not sufficient for implementation. After the First World War - in the course of the monuments erected everywhere - a special purpose association was founded in 1926 to erect a memorial and in 1929 a committee was convened. The city building officer Richard Korn designed the round courtyard in 1930, and construction began in 1933. The city used unemployed welfare recipients to save costs. Inside the memorial made of Ruhr sandstone originally bore the saying frieze:
"1914-1918 To honor the dead of war, to call for generations of victory."
The second line was removed after World War II and replaced by the years 1939-1945.

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22.8 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

11.0 km

7.01 km

2.46 km

896 m

669 m

665 m

102 m

Surfaces

9.43 km

5.55 km

4.03 km

1.86 km

1.09 km

832 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Weather

Saturday 17 October

12°C

6°C

24 %

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Max wind speed: 9.0 km/h

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Comments

November 13, 2021,⛰️ Braucker & Bottroper Alpen

Today's tour in the heart of the Ruhr area led through Gladbeck Brauck, Bottrop Boy and Bottrop Wellheim. Of course, the heaps that line up like a string of pearls in Gladbeck Brauck were, in the truest sense of the word, the highlights of the hike. But there was also a lot of interesting to discover on the way between …

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