Yesterday the niece and I went to the Indemann. The Inde is a river next to the infamous RWE surface mining area "Inden" (which is also the name of the next town). You get the creativity …

The Indemann is a 28m high construction of steel that looks like a minecraft figure with one arm pointing to the surface mine.
You can go up 216 steps (or take an elevator for the first part of the way up).
From above you have a good view of the mining area and on the other side the huge brown coal power station burning what the giant excavators dug up.
The following two are official pictures, not taken by me. The second one shows the tower at night, when it's illuminated by over 40.000 LEDs.
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