The Landscape park Duisburg-Nord has an area of 230 hectares and is located on the premises where once the Thyssen iron smelters were located. This property and several adjacent locations have been transformed into a large, cohesive landscape zone in which a large part of the original industrial buildings, part of which are industrial monuments, homes and company buildings have been included.
The Emscher and various open waterways for different kinds of process water run through the grounds. In order to reactivate the existing water courses and provide the Emscher with clean water, much attention has been given to the water system. Existing infrastructures, such as the gas holder (which is filled with water and is used by a diving club) and the purification installation for process water, have been kept and are being used again