MEMBERS OF ERIH ASSOCIATION
Please find below the current list of ERIH members.
You can either see all members in Europe or select the members by individual countries.
Northwich | United Kingdom
What a back-breaking job! Standing bent over a huge steaming saltpan the whole day, regulating the flow of brine and the temperature of the furnaces, raking the salt, filling the tubs and baking it dry. Working in a traditional salt-works was anything but a push-over! Salt-making was not only ...
Lion Salt Works
Ollershaw Lane
CW9 6ES Northwich, United Kingdom
Shrewsbury | United Kingdom
This is really an iconic building of the industrialisation and a must-have-seen for everybody who is interested in the history of the industry: The 5-storey 55 m long red brick building at the northern suburbs of Shrewsbury was the first iron-framed building in the world. Together with Abraham ...
Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings
Spring Gardens
Ditherington
SY1 2SX Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
Southampton | United Kingdom
How is it that brickworkers were paid less when it rained? What is a green brick? And why was it crucial to handle wet bricks with the flat of one's hand only? Find the answers to these questions at Bursledon Brickworks in Southampton. The site which is now an industrial museum tells the whole story ...
Bursledon Brickworks Industrial Museum
Swanwick Lane
SO31 7HB Southampton, United Kingdom
Taynuilt | United Kingdom
Bonawe is a remarkably complete charcoal-fired 18th-century iron furnace. Opened in 1753, it is possible to trace the entire manufacturing process from the surviving components at the site. These include the lade directing water to and from the furnace from the River Awe, driving the waterwheel ...
Bonawe Iron Furnace
PA35 1JQ Taynuilt, United Kingdom
Trehafod | United Kingdom
They laboured like animals: bent double in the low galleries, their lungs full of dust, in constant fear of the walls collapsing, or a gas explosion. But despite all this, they were as proud as any farmer cultivating his own fields. For every collier was allocated his own particular underground ...
Rhondda Heritage Park
Lewis Merthyr Colliery
Coed Cae Road
CF37 2NP Rhondda, United Kingdom
Berlin | Germany
The Berlin Center for Industrial Culture (bzi) is a joint institution of the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and the German Technical Museum Foundation Berlin. BZI
networks actors of industrial culture in Berlin, Brandenburg and the Federal Republic, researches Berlin's industrial ...
Dresden | Germany
The industrialisation of Saxony is based on mining which already started in the 10th century, thus creating capital and early technological expertise – a history that is particularly told by historical sites in the Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains). In the early 19th century textile processing became the ...
Düsseldorf | Germany
No other German region has as many important witnesses of industrial history as North Rhine-Westphalia. A tight network of more than 60 industrial museums and visitor mines, almost 200 museums and facilities presenting the industrial history of NRW, and an even larger number of industrial and ...
Essen | Germany
The Regionalverband Ruhr co-ordinates the Route of Industrial Heritage at the Ruhr.
Frankfurt am Main | Germany
Die Wenigsten denken beim Begriff "Frankfurt/Rhein-Main" an das industriekulturelle Erbe der Region. Dabei haben hier Unternehmen von Weltruhm gewirkt und ihre Spuren hinterlassen – und tun es heute noch: Von Aventis/Infraserv auf dem ehemaligen Hoechst-Gelände in Frankfurt, MAN Roland in Offenbach, ...
Gießen | Germany
The Central Hesse regional management association is the supporter of the Central Hesse Route of Industrial Heritage, which has been set up with the aim
to preserve and promote knowledge about the industrial past and present of Central Hesse to develop and strengthen the awareness of the ...
Oberhausen | Germany
Ruhr Tourismus GmbH (RTG) was founded with the aim of bundling product development, marketing and sales and developing an independent regional tourism profile for the Ruhr metropolis. The task of RTG is to profile the Ruhr Metropolis as a travel destination and to network the region's tourism ...
Athens | Greece
The Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation organizes and manages a network of thematic technological museums in the Greek provinces: - Silk Museum, Soufli - Open Air Museum of Water Power, Dimitsana (Peloponnese) - Museum of the Olive and Greek Olive Oil, Sparta (Peloponnese) - Museum of Industrial ...
Esch-sur-Alzette | Luxembourg
The "Land of the Red Rocks" in the south of Luxembourg, owes its name to the bright red iron ore which dominates the landscape. The iron ore was undoubtedly behind the success of the steel industry in the Grand Duchy back in the middle of the 19th century. Former industrial sites were partially ...
Gmunden | Austria
The Salzkammergut has been shaped by industry and commerce for centuries, which are part of the regional culture and reach far back into the past. The origin of the name "Salzkammergut" goes back to the rich salt deposits. Salt not only gave the name to this region, but also contributed more and ...
Katowice | Poland
Silesian Voivodeship can boast the highest number of historic industrial buildings in Poland. The Marshal Office of the Silesian Voivodeship did bear in mind the significance of monuments for the history and identity of the region. A project consisting of creating a network of the most interesting ...
Ebikon | Switzerland
The 'Verband Industriekultur und Technikgeschichte Schweiz VINTES' (Association Industrial Culture and History of Technology Switzerland) is the umbrella organisation of private and public institutions involved in collecting, preserving and communicating in the fields of industrial heritage and the ...
Gijón | Spain
The industrialisation of Asturia began in the mid 19th century when companies with foreign capital (above all Belgian, French and British enterprises) began large-scale activities in the region, especially in the areas of mining and iron and steel production. They were joined at the end of the 19th ...
Ostrava | Czech Republic
The Moravian-Silesian region was industrialised already during the times of Austria-Hungary in the 19th century and still today is one of the most important industrial areas in Central Europe with its coal mining, iron and steel production and vehicle industry. ‘Moravian-Silesian Tourism' ...