In 2015 I bought a new mobile phone, my first one with Android-OS. Since then I began to explore google maps with it.
I read the first reviews and thought, that I can give information about interesting locations in my region to others, too. So, I started to write reviews and upload photos on my own.
One of my hobbies is photography and I love “my” region. I took a lot of photos of it over the years and I use google maps to present this region to everyone worldwide.
Well, maybe you are interested in which my region is?
It’s “The Ruhr”, the industrial heart of Germany.
Up to the end of the 18th century “The Ruhr” was an agricultural region. The first steelworks were opened in 1758. It was the start of the industrialization between the two rivers Emscher and Ruhr.
During the following 250 years around 3200 (!) coal mines were opened. The population increased from less than 100,000 (1800) to 5.1 Million (2018).
Today, the last pit was closed in 2018 and the region is in a structural change. Over the last 30 years, there was a change from coal, iron and steel industry to education, culture and landscape conservation.
“Our Industrial Culture” is preserved for future generations to remember what this region made so important for Germany.
I was born here in 1970 and spent most of my life in this region. I know the working coal mines and the steelworks from my childhood in the 70th, I witnessed the closings in the 80th and I watched the structural change during the 90th and the beginning of the new millennium.
With my list on google maps, you can get a short impression of the Industrial Culture of “The Ruhr”. Visit our region and be impressed by the people living here and see amazing history and present.
The opportunity to work on google maps, to see that others read my reviews and view my photos gives a lot of fun to me.
Two years ago I was an attendee of Connect Live 2018 and I found a lot of new friends. It was amazing to realise being a member of a big community. Maybe, I will meet my friends again and find new friends in October at Connect Live 2020.