01 / 6Winding-engine hall
Fördermaschinenhalle Dellwig III
The largest room we hold: 68 metres of riveted steel with both winding engines still on their foundations. Eight hundred people fit without the hall feeling full.
- Standing
- 800
- From
- €18,500
Essen-Dellwig · Ruhr
Steel, soot, sound
We produce events in six former colliery and coke-works buildings. Not as a backdrop — as buildings that still say what they were for.
What we do
One operator for the building, the permit and the crew
Most people who call us have already found a photograph of a hall and been told by three suppliers that it cannot be done. It usually can. What it needs is somebody who holds the building, knows what the structure will take, and can walk the plan through the city's building control and fire service before you commit a budget to it.
That is the whole company. We hold six buildings in and around Essen-Dellwig, we employ our own site managers, and we work with one structural engineer and one safety office on every production. We do not run a catering arm and we do not sell you technology you do not need.
Venues
Six buildings, one shaft field
Every site here sat over the same coal. They were built in different decades for different jobs, and each one still behaves like the machine it was.
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02 / 6Coke-oven battery · light walk
Koksofenbatterie Nord
118 ovens, 214 metres of oven front, and a 900-metre route through them. Our light walk is a linear format: guests move, the building does not.
- Standing
- 350
- From
- €6,900
03 / 6Headframe deck, 48 m
Fördergerüst Dellwig III · Rooftop
A cocktail deck under the sheave wheels, 48 metres up, with the whole northern Ruhr laid out below. Small, weather-dependent, and the best thing we own.
- Standing
- 120
- From
- €7,400
04 / 6Pithead baths
Waschkaue Emscherweg
Nineteen hundred chain hooks still hang from their ceiling pulleys. It is the most photographed ceiling in our portfolio and the one room we ask people to enter quietly.
- Standing
- 400
- From
- €9,200
05 / 6Compressor hall
Kompressorenhalle Süd
Our warmest, most forgiving room: brick, arched windows, four compressors in a row. It is the one we recommend when a production has to work the first time.
- Standing
- 300
- From
- €7,800
06 / 6Coal blending bunker
Kohlenmischhalle
Raw post-war concrete, 26 metres to the conveyor bridges, and an echo you can hear your own footsteps travel through. Not an easy room — the right one for the right idea.
- Standing
- 500
- From
- €11,400
Since 2009
The numbers we actually track
- 0
- Productions delivered
- 0
- Guests through the gates
- 0 m
- Deepest shaft on site
- 0
- Crew on our own books
We do not count enquiries, followers or awards. These four tell us whether the buildings are being used and whether people got home safely.
Past editions
What last year looked like
Frame 1 / 6
Kohle & Kabel
2024 · Fördermaschinenhalle Dellwig III · 780 guests
Read the production noteStarting points
Four formats, four honest starting prices
Colliery hall production, 800 guests
Fördermaschinenhalle Dellwig III: hall, power distribution, sanitary units, site management, assembly access from the day before.
€18,500per production day, from
Coke-oven light walk
900 metres along 118 ovens, up to 350 guests in staggered slots, permanent lighting rig, one programmer, stewards, step-free alternative route.
€6,900per evening
Headframe rooftop cocktail, 120 guests
Deck at 48 metres under the sheave wheels, lift operation, two deck stewards, bar infrastructure and a reserved wet-weather room.
€7,400four hours
Permit & safety package
Applications, drawings, safety concept, coordination with building control, fire service and public order office, and the fire watch booking.
€1,800per production, from
Net prices, excluding VAT. Every quote is built from a site visit — these are the floor, not an average.
Ask for a quote
Before the fun part
The permit is the project
A hall does not become a venue because it looks good. Capacity, escape routes, fire load, structural limits and stewarding all have to be agreed with the authorities in Essen, and that process decides what your evening can be. We start there, in writing, on every enquiry.
How the process worksSelected clients
Emscher Energie
AG
Ruhrfunk
Kultur
Nordstern
Mobility
Westfalen
Automotive
Kulturbüro
Essen-Nord
Ensemble
Nordhang
Halde
Festival
Archiv
Emscherweg e. V.
Utilities, broadcasters, works councils, ensembles and district culture offices. Roughly half our work is for organisations from the region, which is the way we would like to keep it.
Getting here
Kokereistraße 14, Essen-Dellwig
Travel
S-Bahn to Essen-Dellwig, then eleven minutes on foot along the Emscher path. By car, A42 exit Essen-Nord, then five minutes; 180 spaces on the old pit yard, free, unlit — we light the walking route on event days.
Access
The compressor hall is step-free from the yard. The pithead baths and the winding-engine hall are step-free with one assisted threshold. The rooftop deck and the blending bunker are not step-free; the light walk has a shortened step-free route. Tell us what you need and we will tell you what is honestly possible.
Contact
Kokereistraße 14, 45356 Essen-Dellwig
+49 201 8845210
hallo@nachtschicht-industrial.de
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