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Review of the ERIH Annual Conference 2012
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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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Lauchhammer | Lauchhammer Bio-Towers |
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Finsterwalder Str. 57 | 01979 Lauchhammer | Germany |
| Medieval castles spring to mind when you see them. Many people are even reminded of Castel del Monte, the famous southern Italian palace of the Hohenstaufen Emperor Friedrich II. All of a sudden, 24 s... more >> |
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Lauf-an-der-Pegnitz | Industrial Museum |
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Sichartstrasse 5-25 | 91207 Lauf-an-der-Pegnitz | Germany |
| The museum of industry at Lauf-an-der-Pegnitz, which lies 15 km north-east of Nurnberg, is concerned with life and work in industrial society between 1900 and 1970, but also with the earlier stages of... more >> |
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Lewarde | Mining History Centre of Lewarde |
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Fosse Delloye Rue d'Erchin - BP30039 | 59287 Lewarde | France |
| The centre at Guesnain 8km SE of Douai is the largest mining museum in France and occupies the surface buildings of the Delloye Colliery that was sunk in 1920. Most of the principal surface structures... 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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Linz | Upper Austria Regional Museum |
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Schlossberg 1 | 4010 Linz | Austria |
| The Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum is a very large institution whose statutes date from 1833. Since 1963 its headquarters and principal displays have b... more >> |
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Loos-en-Gohelle | Coal Mines of Loos-en-Gohelle | La Chaine des Terrils |
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Base du 11/19 Rue de Bourgogne | 62750 Loos-en-Gohelle | France |
| Loos-en-Gohelle was a scene of conflict in a succession of wars between the 13th and 17th centuries, and of epic-scale slaughter during the so-called First Battle of Loos in 1915. The Loos Memorial co... 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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Ludvika | Bergslagen Ecomuseum |
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Nils Nils gata 7 | 771 03 Ludvika | Sweden |
| The Bergslagen Ecomuseum, which administers many historic sites in Sweden’s most historically important industrial region, has its headquarters at the open air museum of mining, the first of its kin... more >> |
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Lüneburg | German Salt Museum |
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Sülfmeisterstrasse 1 | 21335 Lüneburg | Germany |
| Lüneburg is an ancient Hanseatic town on the edge of Lüneburg Heath between Hamburg and Hanover where salt was extracted for more than a thousand years. The salt works closed in 1980 and parts of it... more >> |
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Løkken | Orkla Industrial Museum |
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Torfinn Bjørnaas plass 2 | 7332 Løkken | Norway |
| The mines of Orkdal and Meldal near the town of Løkken, in South-Trondelage, 45 km south-west of Trondheim were worked for more than 300 years, initially for copper ores, but from 1851 principally fo... more >> |
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Marcinelle | Le Bois du Cazier |
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Rue de Cazier 80 | 6001 Marcinelle | Belgium |
| The Bois du Cazier colliery at Marcinelle on the southern side of Charleroi was the site of a tragedy that demonstrates how men travelled across Europe in search of work in the period after the Second... more >> |
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Marsal | Saltmuseum |
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Porte de France | 57630 Marsal | France |
| Marsal’s existence is built on salt. The village in Saulnois, (German: Salzgau) on the tiny River Seille was created on top of a pile of broken clay. Around 1000 BC brine from salt ponds was dried i... more >> |
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Massa Marittima | Mininig Museum |
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via Corridoni | Massa Marittima | Italy |
| The hills around Massa Marittima, 45 km south-west of Siena, have been extensively mined for various metallic ores and for building stone. The mining museum is located in the town’s central square b... more >> |
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Mechernich | Mechernich Mining Museum |
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Bleibergstraße 6 | 53894 Mechernich | Germany |
| Visitors are advised to wrap up warmly and don protective helmets before descending into the bowels of the earth. But this is purely a precautionary measure. For the mining gallery is not only 9 degre... more >> |
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Merkers | Merkers Adventure Mine |
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Zufahrtstraße 1 | 36460 Merkers | Germany |
| Even General Eisenhower was there. At the end of the Second world War the American general confiscated the reserves of gold and currency which had been hidden here by the Reichsbank. The money has lon... more >> |
