Current events |
| Wege aus der Armut. Baden in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts | Furtwangen, German Clock Museum | German Clock Route |
| Viel Stoff. Textile Muster und Musterbücher 1900 bis 2000 | Dortmund, LWL Industrial Museum Zollern II/IV Colliery |
| Tall Ships Photography Exhibition | Gloucester, National Waterways Museum and Gloucester Dock |
| Dein Gehirn. denken.fühlen.handeln. | Völklingen, World Heritage Site Voelklingen Iron Works |
| Von Feuer, Wasser und bösen Wettern. Unglücke in Lausitzer Bergwerken | Hoyerswerda, Energy Factory Knappenrode |
| more events >> |
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...
The treasures of the Earth: European Theme Route Mining
Coal from European and American collieries was the universal fuel during the Industrial Revolution. Nonetheless technical inventions in mining played a relatively insignificant role. The main cause was the ongoing abundance of workers. Colliery owners were able to attain higher outputs simply by employing more workers. For the same reason they were able to postpone any improvements to the catastrophic working conditions for a long time.
I |
Abbadia San Salvatore | Abbadia San Salvatore Mining Museum |
 |
Piazzale R Rosare 2 | Abbadia San Salvatore | Italy |
| Abbadia San Salvatore is a town of about 7,000 people, 70 km south of Sienna and west of the Autostrada and railway from Florence to Rome. It was founded in the mid-8th century, and takes its name fro... more >> |
GB |
Aberdare | Cynon Valley Museum and Art Gallery |
 |
Depot RoadGadlys | CF44 8DL Aberdare | Great Britain |
| The Museum tells the story of the social history of the Cynon Valley from 1800 to the present. Audio visual presentations in the gallery include films on the iron industry around 1830 and the Miner’... more >> |
I |
Abies Alba | Siele mercury mine |
|
Vicolo di Castello, 12- | 12 Abies Alba | Italy |
| The Siele Mine, like that at Abbadia San Salvatore, was used to extract cinnabar, the mineral from which mercury is obtained, from deposits within Mount Amiato, an extinct volcano that rises to a heig... more >> |
B |
Aiseau-Presles | Trail of Pit Heaps |
|
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 >> |
P |
Alcoutim | Parque Mineiro da Cova dos Mouros |
|
Vanquiros | Alcoutim | Portugal |
| Copper has been mined since prehistoric times in the region of Alcoutim, a Portuguese town on the River Guardiana, which is the frontier with Spain, 65 km north-east of Faro. Exploitation on an indust... more >> |
E |
Almaden (Cuidad Real) | Mining Park of Almaden |
|
Cerco de San Teodoro | 13400 Almaden (Cuidad Real) | Spain |
| Almaden is a town located 589 m above sea level, 200 km south of Madrid and about the same distance north-east of Seville. For more than two millennia it has been one of Europe’s principal sources o... more >> |
B |
Amay | Les Maitres du Feu - Route du Feu |
|
Rue de Bende 5 | B-4540 Amay | Belgium |
| The contrast could scarcely be greater: the little town of Amay, with its old town centre, narrow alleyways, mansions and cloisters situated idyllically in the Mass valley, in the shadows of the massi... more >> |
GB |
Amlwch | Mynydd Parys and Porth Amlwch |
 |
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 >> |
F |
Arc-et-Senans | La Saline royale d’Arc-et-Senans |
|
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 >> |
F |
Argentella | Argentella Silver Mine |
|
Argentella | France |
| The Argentella silver mine lies on the bay of Crovani on the west coast of Corsica, within the district of Calinzana. The mine was a source of argentiferous galena (i.e. silver-bearing lead ore) and w... more >> |
GB |
Ashington | Woodhorn Northumberland Museum and Archives |
|
Queen Elizabeth II Country Park | NE63 9YF Ashington | Great Britain |
| The museum at Woodhorn Colliery houses one of the most significant collections in Europe of paintings by workers who had no formal training in art. In the early twentieth century some miners from pits... more >> |
GR |
Athens | Mineralogical Museum of Lavrion |
|
Heroon Polytechneiou Square | 34195 Athens | Greece |
| The lead and silver mines of Lavrion, on the Greek mainland south of Athens, were important in classical antiquity and in more recent centuries, and were worked in the 19th century by a Greek and a F... more >> |
F |
Aumetz | Iron ore-mine museum of Aumetz |
|
Rue Saint Léger de Montbrillais | 57110 Aumetz | France |
| There´s no steel without coke. It was only when coke began to be used in 1769 that "Minette" (iron ore with a relatively small proportion of iron) really began to pay off as a raw material for making... more >> |
D |
Bad Dürrenberg | The Graduation Tower and the Borlach Museum |
|
Borlachplatz 1 | 06231 Bad Dürrenberg | Germany |
| The director of the Electoral State of Saxony Saline Baths in Dürrenberg, Johann Gottfried Borlach, was a stubborn man. He had people drilling for saline sources for 19 years. Finally, on 15th Septem... more >> |
D |
Bad Reichenhall | Old Saltworks |
|
Salinenstraße | 83435 Bad Reichenhall | Germany |
| The largest saltworks in Germany is located in Bavaria, at Bad Reichenhall on the Austrian border, 16 km south-west of Salzburg. The record of working salt in the area goes back to the year 682 ad, an... more >> |
