Phoenix-west
By Phaskal from Indonesia Historical relics are always an interesting thing to visit or see. Here I will tell you my story, also the story of a place here in Dortmund. So, I'm Phaskal and I work at the Dortmund Ecumenical Department and here I'll tell you what I managed to do. A few weeks ago, me and my colleagues were at Phoenix West. The history of the PHOENIX smelter site goes back to the middle of the 19th century. As early as 1841, Hermannshütte was founded by Hermann Dietrich Piepenstock from Iserlohn on the site of the future PHOENIX lake. About ten years later, the blast furnace works were built on PHOENIX West. Steel production began at the Hermannshütte in 1843. Over the following decades, the previously rural area around the town centre