Dortmunder U

This high rise past refinery building has been a Dortmund purpose of enthusiasm since 1927. It housed the Dortmunder Union Brauerei, which for a short time period was the most gainful packaging works in West Germany.

That trademark "U" on the housetop was incorporated 1968 and stands nine meters tall.

In 2010, to relate with the Ruhr getting the opportunity to be European Capital of Culture, the Dortmunder U was changed into a point of convergence of culture and ingenuity, encouraging the Ostwall Museum, showrooms, a restaurant, a workmanship association and a reason for the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences.

For the span of the day the network of loads up under the "U" demonstrates the "flying pictures" foundation by the sensible specialist Adolf Winkelmann.