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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...
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Review of the ERIH Annual Conference 2012
More than 100 delegates from 15 European Countries attended the ERIH Conference 2012 in September...
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.
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Osnabrück | Museum of Industry |
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Fürstenauer Weg 171 | 49090 Osnabrück | Germany |
| The museum of industry in Osnabruck opened in 1994 in the surface buildings of the Haseschacht, the‘hare’ colliery, opened in 1870, an imposing series of structures in the Rundbogenstil, or round ... more >> |
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Ostrava | Mining Museum Landek Park |
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Pod Landekem 64 | 725 29 Ostrava | Czech Republic |
| Ostrava is the third city of the Czech Republic, and in the 19th and 20th centuries was the centre of a heavy industrial region, similar to that in Silesia to the north.
The mining museum opened i... more >> |
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Ostrava | Michal Mine |
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Československè armády 95/413 | 715 00 Ostrava | Czech Republic |
| Michal Mine, whose history goes back to 1843, is an extremely valuable authentic industrial site in terms of construction and technical equipment. During its existence, the mine underwent several chan... more >> |
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Outokumpu | Mining Museum |
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Sepankatu y | 03500 Outokumpu | Finland |
| Copper ores were discovered in the Outokumpu district of eastern Finland in 1910 by the German geologist Otto Trustedt. Mining began in 1913 when a smelter came into operation. The smelter ceased work... 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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Petite-Rosselle | The mine, The Carreau Wendel Museum |
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F 57540 Petite-Rosselle | France |
| The sheer size of the central tip is enough to give you an idea of what was going on here once. Rising into the sky to the north is the stripped face of a sand stone quarry which once supplied filling... more >> |
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Piran | Sergej Masera Maritime Museum - Museum of Salt-Making |
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Cankarjevo nabrezje 3 | 103 Piran | Slovenia |
| Piran is one of the towns on the 46 km of Slovenian coastline on the Adriatic, whose architecture and planning owe much to Venetian influences. The Maritime Museum, founded in 1954 and located in a mi... more >> |
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Pomorie | Salt museum |
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Yavorov Boulevard 40A | 8200 Pomorie | Bulgaria |
| The town of Pomorie stands on a rocky peninsula in south-east Bulgaria near the ultrasaline lagoon Lake Pomorie, which has for centuries been a mud spa. Pomorie was part of the Ottoman empire until 18... more >> |
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Pontypool | Pontypool Museum |
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Park Buildings | NP4 6JH Pontypool | Great Britain |
| Set in the stable block of Pontypool Park House the museum documents the proud history of early ironmaking and coal production in this valley. It also tells the story of the Hanbury family and feature... more >> |
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Prešov Solivar | Solivar Salt Works |
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Gáplová 21 | 082 67 Prešov Solivar | Slovakia |
| Solivar, part of the city of Prešov, has been one of Europe’s principal sources of salt since the middle ages. Salt production continues today, and visitors can see a succession of monumental struc... more >> |
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Príbram | Príbram Museum of Mining |
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Námesti Hynka Klicky 293 | 261 01 Príbram | Czech Republic |
| The Pribram region of Bohemia was important for the mining of silver from the middle ages, of coal from the late 18th century, and of uranium after the Second World War. The principal mining museum in... more >> |
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Quierschied-Göttelborn | Göttelborn Pit and Housing Estate |
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Zum Schacht | 66287 Quierschied-Göttelborn | Germany |
| In Göttelborn nothing is as it seems at first sight. The mining gear and colliers’ housing settlement have changed their roles. The strictly functional, clearly visible pit headgear is an expressio... more >> |
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Redruth | Tolgus Tin |
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New Portreath Road | TR6 4HN Redruth | Great Britain |
| Cornwall’s tin mines were world famous, but large quantities of tin ore were also obtained by ‘streaming’, by washing and sifting alluvium from rivers and streams or crushed waste that had been ... more >> |
