Caption

Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Sunny winter landscape in the Ruhr area, ice and snow on the renaturalised Goldhammer Bach here at the HRB flood retention basin, the stream has been transformed into a near-natural body of water, the Goldhammer Bach flows via the Hüller Bach into the Emscher, is part of the Emscher river system and thus part of the Emscher conversion, was previously an open, above-ground wastewater canal, mixed water canal with surface water and wastewater, animal tracks in the snow, the gates are closed during floods

Date

Feb 13, 2021

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Rupert Oberhäuser

Reference

BRK25B49_222

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

120,4Mb (6,8Mb) / 26,5in x 17,7in / 7944 x 5299 (300dpi)

Keywords

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