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1991 |
The idea is born for an excavator museum |
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1992 |
The vision for the »City of Iron« takes shape A design for Ferropolis emerges from a diploma |
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1993 |
Five enormous historical excavators for open-cast mining are preserved as the
future core of the »City of Iron« |
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1995 |
An activity day with the excavators being moved officially toward their later positions Dec. 14: the »City of Iron« is founded by the Minister for Economic Affairs of the Land of Saxony-Anhalt |
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1996 |
Excavators are in position, the arena is constructed |
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1997 |
The project is confirmed as an EXPO project Ferropolis GmbH is founded as the future owner The topping-out is celebrated on September 19 The Freiherr-vom-Stein-Prize is awarded to theinitiators of the Bauhaus project |
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1999 |
The logistics are completed Millennium celebration on December 31 in the »City of Iron« |
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city of iron
Five enormous excavators for open-cast mining used at Golpa-Nord pit bear testimony
to the end of a machine dream once euphorically cel-ebrated at the World Fair in Paris
in 1900.
Ferropolis, the fragment of a new city in the middle of a desert created by
open-cast mining, is both an ominous monument and symbol of the extensive exploitation
of the countryside and the ecological consequences of doing so.
However, the »City of Iron« also represents a new start in dealing with nature and the
countryside. It is an attempt, at the end of an epoch, to create new perspectives for
a landscape depleted by industrial exploitation. It is also an attempt to find answers
to what are currently two of the most frequently asked questions: where is structural change
in the region leading, and what will a post-industrial cultural landscape look like?
Hence, Ferropolis has become the symbol of a path chosen for this century, a manifestation
of a region undergoing
change, a region in which diverse interests, experiences and hopes
are reflected in a project that is a region of correspondence for EXPO 2000.
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