Halde Pattberg, Mining spoil tip in Moers, Germany

Halde Pattberg is a spoil tip of the former Pattberg colliery in Moers-Repelen-Rheim, heaped up from 1962 over more than twenty years. It covers 48 hectares and rises to a plateau about 75 metres high, topped by a widely visible summit cross. The Ruhrkohle AG planned it as a terraced table mountain, and greening and renaturation began while dumping was still under way.

Dumping at the spoil tip of the Pattberg colliery in Moers-Repelen began in 1962 and continued for over twenty years. The Ruhrkohle AG planned it as a terraced table mountain, and greening and renaturation were carried out while the tip was still being built. It later became part of the Landschaftspark NiederRhein and the Route der Industriekultur.

The hill was long known as Halde Moers-Repelen, after the nearest village, before taking the name of the Pattberg colliery. From the early 1980s radio amateurs have used the exposed plateau for field-day contests, reaching stations as far as Argentina, Japan and the ISS with five watts; the site carries Mining Activity number DL118.

The spoil tip lies in Moers-Repelen-Rheim and is part of the Landschaftspark NiederRhein and the Route der Industriekultur. It is a terraced table mountain with a plateau at about 75 metres; the summit cross on the plateau is visible from far away. The site covers 48 hectares and is used by radio amateurs for field days.

From the plateau visitors see across the Lower Rhine industrial landscape to blast furnaces and coking plants in Duisburg. The view reveals the contrast between the region's industrial past and present.