City in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Hamm is a city of 180,000 inhabitants (2022) in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. Once an industrial and important railway hub, it's now a relatively unremarkable city at the far east end of the Ruhr.
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The former coalmine Maximilian was transformed into a leisure park with the coalmine washery having been turned into a walk-in-sculpture in the shape of a Glass Elephant. By entering a lift inside the elephants trunk, visitors can reach the top floor of the transformed building, allowing a panoramic view of the surrounding area. The elephant includes a collection of mechanically moving constructs called garden of kinetic objects, mimicking e.g. animal movements. The park also contains various remnants of the sites industrial heritage, playgrounds, a butterfly house, a park railway (operated by a railway club during limited operation times) and a bistro.
Europe's third largest Hindu temple, built in the north-Indian Nagara style during the late 1990s. People consuming pork or alcohol, and girls and women who are on their period, may not enter the temple.
Tierpark Hamm
Hamm has a local city bus system of 14 routes, buses operate on all days of the week. There are regional bus services to Lünen, Werne, Werl, Ahlen and Bergkamen.
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