Schurenbachhalde, Essen

The Schurenbachhalde is an approximately 50-meter-high tailings pile of the coal mining industry in the Altenessen district of Essen. The tailings pile is named after the water body "Schurenbach", which was buried under it from the 1970s onwards, and is located directly on the Rhine-Herne Canal, between Emscherstraße and Nordsternstraße and near the Nordsternpark Gelsenkirchen.

The tailings pile was used by the Zollverein colliery to store overburden until its closure in 1986. Until the mid-1990s, other coal mines also unloaded their overburden on this tailings pile. Subsequently, the tailings pile was renaturalized and converted into a landscape monument.

The 15-meter-high sculpture Bramme für das Ruhrgebiet by American artist Richard Serra, erected in 1998, is a landmark on the top of the slag heap.

The Schurenbachhalde is part of the Route of Industrial Heritage and is to become part of the International Garden Exhibition 2027.