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HORCH - EIN AUDI! | Zwickau, August Horch Museum
Von Feuer, Wasser und bösen Wettern. Unglücke in Lausitzer Bergwerken | Hoyerswerda, Energy Factory Knappenrode
Tall Ships Photography Exhibition | Gloucester, National Waterways Museum and Gloucester Dock
Viel Stoff. Textile Muster und Musterbücher 1900 bis 2000 | Dortmund, LWL Industrial Museum Zollern II/IV Colliery
Armand Heins, etser, lithograaf en drukker. De technische wereld van e | Gent, Museum of Industrial Archaeology and Textile
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Latest News:

20.01.10

New Regional Route in Poland connected to ERIH network

The Silesian Voivodeship is another address on the European Route of Industrial Heritage.


11.01.10

European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 now open!

The Ruhr is the European Capital of Culture 2010.


10.11.09

Reusing Industrial Heritage TICCIH Conference - Call for Papers open until 16th November

TICCIH is having it´s first joint meeting with ICOHTEC (The International Committee for the History...


European Theme Routes

Such as "The treasures of the Earth": what, where, when and how were they extracted from the ground? Or "Textile manufacturing": the milestones along the way from fibre to factory. Or "Transport and Communication": retracing the tracks of the industrial revolution.

Theme Routes take up specific questions relating to European industrial history and reveal potential links between radically different industrial monuments all over Europe. The result is a "circuit diagram" of the common routes of European industrial heritage.

Textiles

The thousands of rattling bobbins on the spinning frames in cotton factories have become a byword for industrialisation.
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Mining

Coal from European and American collieries was the universal fuel during the Industrial Revolution.
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Iron and Steel

Two steps are needed to make iron and steel – the key materials of the industrial era - from iron ore.
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Manufacturing

Domestic handmade textile production was typical for the pre-industrial age.
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Energy

From the Middle Ages until the late 19th century water and wind supplied the driving power for a huge variety of engines.
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Transport & Communication

During the early years of the Industrial Revolution there was a radical change in transportation.
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Water

No European country has as close a relationship to water than the Netherlands.
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Housing & Architecture

The continuous improvement in the processing of iron and concrete during ...
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Service & Leisure Industry

The forerunners in France, from around the middle of the 19th century, were the large ...
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Industrial Landscapes

It was only around the end of the 19th century, with the second wave of industrialisation, ...
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