Driving from Saarbruecken, the capital of Saarland, the smallest area-state (as opposed to city-state) of Germany, towards Trier is picturesk – at night you can see only the outline of forests encompanying the autobahn on the left, the Saar flowing quietly alongside on the right, lights of the villages and cities along the way shining dimly.
Greysilver monuments, towers, futuristic constructs, steaming chimneys climbing up high, are glowing in the heat of molten ore, or brightly lit to present themselves as reminders of what this area once was and still is – proud producer of steel.
The Voelklinger Huette is a UNESCO-sponsored world heritage site, representing industrialism and beauty so eery as nowadays only attributed to Fritz Lang and his Metropolis, yet it is here, standing, still alive, this one now supporting, in his postmodern halls of pastmodern constructions, the culture of today, the art exhibitions and Jazz and Rock concerts, while its siblings are still active, blowing sulphurous clouds into the sky, red signals marking chimney tops, blue flames shooting out high.
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