Renatured flowing water, the Hellbach belongs to the river system of the Emscher, was previously an open, above-ground wastewater channel, here the stream still flows in its old concrete corset, but the concrete shells are still being removed and the stream course redesigned, Emscher conversion, Recklinghausen, Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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