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| Tafellinnen | Tilburg, Audax Museum of Textiles Tilburg |
| Ausstellung: Montanrevier. Bilder aus dem Ruhrgebiet und Oberschlesien | Dortmund, LWL Industrial Museum Zollern II/IV Colliery |
| Ancoats: Manchester's Little Italy | Manchester, The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester |
| Exhibition: Magical History Tour | Liverpool, Merseyside Maritime Museum am Albert Dock |
| Eisbahn Zollverein | Essen, World Heritage Site Zollverein XII Colliery & Coking Plant |
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18.11.08
ERIH Annual Conference 2008 - "Old Iron is not enough"
The ERIH annual conference 2008 showed European industrial heritage as a success factor for tourism...
Here we lived and worked. European Theme Route Housing & Architecture
The continuous improvement in the processing of iron and concrete during the Industrial Revolution opened up new and previously undreamt-of potentials for architects and engineers. At the same time industrialisation caused a revolution in the construction of housing as a result of the grave deficit in decent housing caused by the thousands of workers who migrated to booming factory regions. One of the first entrepreneurs to concern himself with social questions was the early British socialist, Robert Owen. At the end of the 18th century he conceived an ideal town for his workers in the utopian tradition of the Renaissance.
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Alfeld an der Leine | Fagus Factory |
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Hannoversche Strasse 58 | 31061 Alfeld an der Leine | Germany |
| Alfeld is a small town that once belonged to the Hanseatic League, on the River Leine, 60 km south of Hanover. It has many ancient timber-framed houses, but its most celebrated building is the Fagus s... more >> |
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Amsterdam-Westerpark | Westergasfactory |
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Haarlemmerweg 8-10 | 1014 BE Amsterdam-Westerpark | Netherlands |
| The Westergasfabriek is a former gasfactory in the center of Amsterdam. The complex is most popular by trendy young public. Regular (music)events are held there because of it´s central location.
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Arc-et-Senans | La Saline royale d’Arc-et-Senans |
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Saline royale | F 25610 Arc-et-Senans | France |
| The saltworks at Arc-et-Senans is one of the most spectacular industrial monuments in Europe. It was built between 1775 and 1779 on the fringe of the forest of Chaux, since supplies of wood for fuel w... more >> |
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Bedford, Bedfordshire | Stewartby Brickworks & Village |
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Stewartby | MK43 Bedford, Bedfordshire | Great Britain |
| The Bedfordshire landscape is still dominated by the huge chimneys of the Stewartby brickworks. The iconic 90 m high brick structures were designed to carry away the waste gases particularly sulphur o... more >> |
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Bendorf-Sayn | Sayner Hütte iron works |
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In der Sayner Hütte | 56170 Bendorf-Sayn | Germany |
| The casting hall in the Gothic style at the Bendorf ironworks, Sayn, 10 km north of Koblenz, is one of the most monumental industrial buildings in Europe. A blast furnaces was built at Bendorf in 1769... more >> |
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Berlin | AEG turbine factory |
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Huttenstraße 12-19 | 10553 Berlin | Germany |
| Architecture of high quality characterised the industrial history of Germany in the twentieth century and the acknowledged symbol of that quality is the Turbinenfabrik (turbine factory) in Huttenstras... more >> |
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Birmingham | Birmingham Back to Backs |
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55-63 Hurst Street | B5 4TE Birmingham | Great Britain |
| No one can grasp a proper understanding of the industrial heritage of the West Midlands without a visit to the Back to Backs in Birmingham. Here you can see the home workshops which generated the mome... more >> |
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Birmingham | Bournville Village & The Bournville Experience |
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Linden RoadBournville | B30 2LU Birmingham | Great Britain |
| George Cadbury was quite a man. He left us two fantastic legacies. No prizes for guessing the first one, but do you know the other? A clue is that to appreciate it fully you need to visit the Birmingh... more >> |
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Bochum | Hall of the Century Bochum |
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Gahlensche Straße 15 | 44793 Bochum | Germany |
| This impressive hall was built as an exhibition hall by the Bochumer Verein ironworks for the 1902 world exhibition in Düsseldorf, after which it was used as a gas-blower and dynamo station in the ca... more >> |
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Bradford | Saltaire Village |
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City Hall | BD1 1HY Bradford | Great Britain |
| David Hockney painted Salts Mill in warm ochre tones. Today both the painter and the place are world-famous. Hockney was born in the Northern industrial city of Bradford. And Salts Mill, an old textil... more >> |
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Brussels | Tour et Taxis |
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Avenue de Port 86c | 1000 Brussels | Belgium |
| The early 20th century inter-modal transport hub on the north side of Brussels takes its name from the family of Frans de Tassis who became Master of the Post in the Holy Roman Empire in 1501, and who... more >> |
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Caserta | Belvedere di San Leucio |
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81100 Caserta | Italy |
| The Casino Reale de Belvedere, the former summer palace and hunting lodge of the Bourbon kings of Naples, built by King Ferdinand I in 1774 from plans by Luigi Vanvitelli, stands 3 km north-east of Ca... more >> |
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Copenhagen | Workers’ Museum |
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Romersgade 22 | 1362 Copenhagen | Denmark |
| The workers’ museum is located in the assembly house of the strong trades union movement in Copenhagen that was built in 1878-79, and remained for many decades the focus of the Danish labour movemen... more >> |
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Cottbus | Art museum Cottbus power station |
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Uferstraße / Am Amtsteich 15 | 03046 Cottbus | Germany |
| The high, orangey-red rows of windows hit you straight between the eyes. They stand like reflective columns in the towering clinker façades which range in shade from vitreous burgundy and deep browni... more >> |
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Crespi d’Adda | Crespi d’Adda |
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Crespi d’Adda | Italy |
| Crespi d’Adda is a community where textiles were manufactured in a mill completed in 1878, but it is important chiefly as a model community, designed by Silvio Benigno Crespi n (1868-1944), who had ... more >> |
