The Rhine-Elbe Science Park, a sustainable building with solar panels, Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Rhine-Elbe Science Park - birthplace of solar energy in the Ruhr. As part of structural transformation in the Rhur, the Science Park represents the dawn of a new age. The industrial era hit the district of Uckendorf in 1861, when coal mining began at Rhine-Elbe Colliery. Though the pit was closed as early as 1930 for technical reasons, there were still 3,000 people working at the neighbouring steelworks during the 1970s. After the steelworks closed in 1984 the site lay derelict for five years until plans for a science park were put forward in 1989. Since opening in 1995, Gelsenkirchen Science Park has offered innovative companies ideal working conditions in an appropriate environment. New products and services that can create jobs are being developed here. Set amid an impressive milieu of multi-award-winning architecture, the Science Park is a communications centre offering a full range of services for all kinds of events, as well as accommodating exhibitions which change quarterly. The industries the Science Park has brought to the Ruhr, primarily biotechnology, IT and communications, energy and the retirement economy. In 1996 the world's largest solar power plant was opened in the Science Park.
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Location: Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany.
Photo credit: © Clynt Garnham Germany / Alamy / Afripics
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