August 17, 2021

District | Around the »Kappessiedlung«



First »explorations« around my place of residence in the miners' settlement »Dahlhauser Heide« in Hordel, district of Bochum. The settlement was built and laid out at the beginning of the 20th century for the workers of the neighboring Hannover colliery… Leer más

How are your first impressions of my homeland? 🤗 You immediately set your sights on a suitable target with the Hanover mine 🙋‍♂️

With so many disused railway lines, the track bed gravel has found a new home in the front yard ... a planting with butterfly lilac and buffer stop would be in keeping with the style, as a railway idyll 😉

Nice round!

I know “Kappes” primarily under the meaning of “nonsense”; for example in “Red‘ kein Kappes ”. The language has evidently evolved towards requests to defecate ... 😳 What didn’t prevent you from doing a wonderfully informative and entertaining tour documentary 👋👋👍🔝🔝👍

Heinz Sprinter - you could say "ambivalent". At first glance everything is gray, the tone is rougher, there is more quacking than elsewhere and there are more large, unleashed dogs that stand in front of you and growl: "What do you want here?"



All nonsense! The Ruhr area is really green. When asked which… Leer más

Coco - thank you very much! I assume that this is not about recycled or washed gravel lying around in the area, but gravel from the hardware store ... Ecological nonsense and looks nice. Alternative would be meadow and wild flowers, also butterfly lilacs, which can do without gravel if necessary.

The… Leer más

If you are in Bochum, I would suggest the West Park with the Jahrhunderthalle 🙋‍♂️

Thank you - let's go. Yes, "Kappes" is ambiguous. Bullshit and white cabbage - a language phenomenon? I am glad that it exists, the Kappes, which means white cabbage. Because without him there would be no sauerkraut ...

The use of language also gives birth to trashy tones.

Note the subtle ironic undertone 😉 ...

If the ballast is still stacked and barred, it becomes a chic gabion ("vertical ballast), with bar fence elements in between and woven plastic privacy tape 🤣💩🙄

I once read somewhere that this type of front garden design is an expression of social indifference… Leer más