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Review of the ERIH Annual Conference 2012
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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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Herten | Ewald Mine |
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Werner-Heisenberg-Straße 14 | 45699 Herten | Germany |
| The history of the Ewald colliery began in 1871. Three mining contractors in Essen, one of whom Ewald Hilger, gave his name to the pit, set up the colliery in the south of Herten. After a thorny start... more >> |
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Hoyerswerda | Energy Factory Knappenrode |
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Ernst-Thälmann-Straße 8 | 02977 Hoyerswerda | Germany |
| The coal dust has long since disappeared, to be replaced by an ensemble of shining redbrick buildings on a site resembling a park. The old Knappenrode briquetting plant near Hoyerswerda is the heart o... more >> |
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Inden | Inden Brown coal open-cast mining |
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Burgstraße | 50126 Inden | Germany |
| The typical signs of Rhineland brown coal open-cast mining can be recognised for miles around on the flat plain east of Aachen. The huge accumulation of rubble on the "Sofienhöhe", waste ma... more >> |
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Kinderdijk | Windmills at Kinderdijk |
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Neverwaard 5 | 2961 AS Kinderdijk | Netherlands |
| The 19 windmills at Kinderdijk comprise the most impressive historic landscape of wind-power in Europe, and are a powerful evocation of the landscape of the western provinces of the Netherlands in the... more >> |
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Letchworth Garden City,Hertfordshire | Letchworth Garden City |
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296 Norton Way South | SG6 1SU Letchworth Garden City,Hertfordshire | Great Britain |
| Ebenezer Howard had a vision that would end the poverty and slum conditions suffered by so many in the late Victorian era. Howard dreamed of ´Garden Cities´, where the best elements of town and coun... more >> |
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Lichterfeld | Overburden Conveyer Bridge F60 |
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Bergheider Straße 4 | 03238 Lichterfeld | Germany |
| It looks like the Eiffel tower, only it’s called F60 and is situated in the Lausitz countryside near Lichterfeld. We’re talking about the largest existing overburden conveyor gantry which has ever... more >> |
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Llanberis | National Slate Museum |
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Padarn Country Park | LL55 4TY Llanberis | Great Britain |
| How do you steal a mountain? You knock it off. That’s the answer you’d get from a Welshman. The Welsh speak from experience. In North Wales they knocked off mountains en masse – in the form of h... more >> |
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Ludlow | Clee Hills |
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Castle Street | SY8 1AS Ludlow | Great Britain |
| The area around Clee Hill village, 8 km east of Ludlow, provides vivid evidence of an eighteenth century squatting community in which industry developed on a considerable scale. On the Clee Hills, whi... more >> |
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Middenbeemster | Beemster Polder |
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Middenweg 185 | 1462 HJ Middenbeemster | Netherlands |
| The Beemster Polder which lies about 10 km south-east of Alkmaar is the oldest area of reclaimed land in the Netherlands. It was created in 1609-12 by draining a lake and the whole area lies 3.5 m bel... more >> |
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Minas de Riotinto | Parque de Minero de Riotinto |
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Plaza Ernest Lluch s/n | 21660 Minas de Riotinto | Spain |
| The mines of copper, pyrites, gold and silver at Rio Tinto have been worked since antiquity, but were much enlarged following the building in 1876 of a metre-gauge railway to Huelva, 80 km N, on the c... more >> |
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Peenemünde | The Peenemünde Historical Museum |
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Im Kraftwerk | 17449 Peenemünde | Germany |
| Peenemünde was once the embodiment of high-tech perfection – earlier and more modern than anywhere else in the world. Here in the extreme north-east of Germany the first long-distance rocket was se... more >> |
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Pendeen | Geevor Tin Mine |
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Pendeen | TR19 7EW Pendeen | Great Britain |
| It is as if the walls were echoing once more with the rough tones of miners. As if weary feet were stamping against the bare cement floor, accompanied by the screeching tones of the rising cage. Nowad... more >> |
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Pendeen | Levant Mine & Beam Engine |
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Trewellard | TR19 7SX Pendeen | Great Britain |
| The Levant Mine engine house, perched, apparently precariously, on a cliff above the Atlantic Ocean, houses the oldest working beam engine in Cornwall, a 24 inch (0.61 m) winding engine designed by Fr... more >> |
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Peterlee | Durham coastal footpath |
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Judson RoadNW Industrial Estate | SR8 2QJ Peterlee | Great Britain |
| The Durham Coastal Footpath extends 17 km from Crimdon in the south to Seaham in the north through an area of Magnesian Limestone with boulder clay above it. It passes through an area that is an outst... more >> |
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Pouch | Goitzsche landscape park |
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Bitterfelder Straße 24a | 06774 Pouch | Germany |
| Everything here has been transformed. For over 70 years, between 1908 and 1991, the area was dominated by brown coal. Three opencast mines – Holzweißig-Ost, Holzweißig-West and Goitzsche – were ... more >> |
