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15.05.13
ERIH Annual Conference 2013 - Save the date - Call for papers now open
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ERIH Board meeting in Katowice/Poland
On invitation of the Silesian Voivodeship the ERIH board met in Katowice/Poland and discussed with...
01.03.13
Review of the ERIH Annual Conference 2012
More than 100 delegates from 15 European Countries attended the ERIH Conference 2012 in September...
Shaping the earth. European Theme Route Industrial Landscapes
It was only around the end of the 19th century, with the second wave of industrialisation, that exposed mining tips and soot-ridden workshops, endless terraces of cheap grey housing and networks of railway lines began to merge into huge areas of industrial landscape. But for centuries before people had been shaping new landscapes: everywhere where valuable treasures were to be found in the soil. At the end of the 17th century in the Netherlands people began to reclaim the land from the sea in order to protect themselves from flooding and increase the area for agricultural.
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Aiseau-Presles | Trail of Pit Heaps |
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Rue du Centre 78 | 6250 Aiseau-Presles | Belgium |
| Aisneau is a small community about 6 km east of Charleroi which is the headquarters of La Chaine des Terrils, an organisation that protects, conserves and interprets pit heaps across Wallonia from Ber... more >> |
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Amlwch | Mynydd Parys and Porth Amlwch |
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The Sail Loft, Porth Amlwch | LL68 9DB Amlwch | Great Britain |
| As long ago as the Bronze Age people knew that the North Wales mountain of Mynydd Parys contained copper. Just how much was lying untouched in the ground, however, only came to light in 1768. This had... more >> |
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Argenta | Ecomuseum of Argenta |
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via Cadinale-Luc | Argenta | Italy |
| The ecomuseum at Argenta is a federation of several museums and nature reserves that interprets and provides access to some of the lands reclaimed in the delta of the River Po in the early 20th centur... 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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Blaenavon | Big Pit: National Coal Museum |
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NP4 9XP Blaenavon | Great Britain |
| A small town – with a huge effect. The South Wales town of Blaenavon was once the spearhead of the industrial revolution. For 200 years everything revolved around coal and iron here in the Afon Lwyd... more >> |
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Callington | Kit Hill Country Park |
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PL17 8HW Callington | Great Britain |
| Kit Hill is a landmark hilltop located in the east of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape WHS. The hill has a rich mining heritage and its ornate feature chimney, a reminder of its mining pas... more >> |
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Camborne | King Edward Mine |
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Troon | TR16 3SE Camborne | Great Britain |
| The surface buildings at the King Edward Mine are the most complete of any tin-mining site in Cornwall, and include a calciner, a buddle house, a steam winding engine house with an adjacent boiler hou... more >> |
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Capalbio | Capalbio industrial landscape |
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Capalbio | Italy |
| Capalbio is a small but spectacular walled town, on the southern border of Tuscany, and 5 km from the Mediterranean coast. At Pescia Fiorentina, 4 km SW, is an integrated ironworks of the late 18th or... more >> |
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Carbonia | Italian Centre for Coal Mining Culture |
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Grande Miniera di Serbariu | 09013 Carbonia | Italy |
| The Italian Centre for Coal Mining Culture is the main coal mining museum in Italy. The site is a part of Geomineral Historical and Environmental Park of Sardinia, which is a member of UNESC... more >> |
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Cromford | Derwent Valley Mills |
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Cromford Mill | DE4 3RQ Cromford | Great Britain |
| The first modern factory in history was built in Cromford in the Derwent valley, not far from Nottingham. The Derwent is anything but a fast-flowing river. That said it flows quickly enough to be able... more >> |
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Duisburg | North Duisburg Landscape Park |
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Emscherstrasse 71 | 47137 Duisburg | Germany |
| “Clean and tidy and ready to be fired up once more”. That may be so. But blast furnace no. 5 on the site of the disused Thyssen ironworks will stay for ever cold. Because it is right in the middle... more >> |
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Falun | Falun Mine, World Heritage |
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Gruvgatan 44 | 791 61 Falun | Sweden |
| The contrast could not be greater, hamlets and small villages bordering idyllic lakes, set within an expanse of woodland. Then, suddenly a red gorge appears: The Falun Mine. Once the world’s largest... more >> |
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Finspang | Finspang ironworks museum |
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Bruksgatan 25 | 612 30 Finspang | Sweden |
| The water-powered ironworks at Finspong, 30 km west of Norrkoping was established in the late 16th century by the Walloon Wellam de Wijk. It came to specialise in the production of cast-iron cannon, a... more >> |
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Gavorrano | Mineral Country Park Gavorrano |
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Gavorrano | Italy |
| The area around Monte Calvo near to Gavorano on the coast of Tuscany was heavily mined for pyrites in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The park incorporates many buildings once associated... more >> |
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Großräschen | IBA-Terraces Lausitzer Seenland visitor centre / former Meuro opencast mining |
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Seestraße 100 | 01983 Großräschen | Germany |
| The tours do not promise too much. One is called “Journey to Mars”, another “Jeep-Safari”. They lead deep into a scarred, alien landscape of yawning chasms, pockmarked excavations and strange ... more >> |
