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15.04.13
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...
Blue gold. European Theme Route Water
No European country has as close a relationship to water than the Netherlands. For this reason water construction technology developed here first. At the start of the 17th century people began the struggle to reclaim land from the water. They were motivated by two main aims; to create land for agricultural purposes and to protect themselves better from floods. The small parish of Beemster, near Amsterdam, is a good example. The local inhabitants of this damp coastal countryside had been harvesting peat for many years because the fuel was much in demand.
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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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Augsburg | Watertowers close to Red Gate |
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Rotes Tor 1 | 86153 Augsburg | Germany |
| In the mid-nineteenth century the citizens of Augsburg had a better supply of water than those of most European cities, and some of the means of delivering that supply dated from the fifteenth and six... more >> |
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Berlin | Friedrichshagen Waterworks |
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Müggelseedamm 301-307 | 12587 Berlin | Germany |
| The Friedrichshagen Waterworks in Berlin was considered the largest and most modern of its kind in Europe when it was completed in 1888. Its various buildings are dispersed in a park-like setting on t... more >> |
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Brentford | Kew Bridge Steam Museum |
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Green Dragon Lane | TW8 0EN Brentford | Great Britain |
| This steam engine is so huge that you can walk under its beams standing upright – whilst it’s puffing away and rising and sinking. Originally it was used to pump water in west London. Now it is th... more >> |
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Cambridge | Cambridge Museum of Technology |
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The Old Pumping StationCheddars Lane | CB5 8LD Cambridge | Great Britain |
| Alongside the well-known Cambridge of dreamy medieval colleges and spires, lies the first pumping station in the world powered by re-processed household waste. Before the pumping station was built in ... more >> |
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Cornellà de Llobregat | Museu Agbar de les Aigües |
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Ctra. de St. Boi, 4-6 | 08940 Cornellà de Llobregat | Spain |
| The Museu Agbar de les Aigües is situated in the premises of the Central Cornellà, at the original plant which was constructed to extract water from the Llobregat aquifer, and pump it to the city of... more >> |
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Downham Market, Norfolk | Denver Sluice |
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Denver | Downham Market, Norfolk | Great Britain |
| Denver Sluice was designed originally in 1651 to bar tidal water from the low fen areas and to improve navigation.
Denver lock is the main navigation structure linking the south Level River system... more >> |
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Edessa | Open air water museum |
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Parko Katarakton | 58200 Edessa | Greece |
| Edessa,near to Mount Pella in central Macedonia in the northern part of Greece, is built around the cascading waters of the stream called Edhessaios Potomos, from which power has been drawn for many f... more >> |
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Ely, Cambridgeshire | Prickwillow Engine Museum |
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Main StreetPrickwillow | CB7 4UN Ely, Cambridgeshire | Great Britain |
| Tucked inside this tiny village, almost lost in the immense fenland landscape, is a fascinating industrial story. Prickwillow is a former diesel pumping station built to drain the fens.
Man´s stru... more >> |
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Engelskirchen | Rhineland Industrial Museum Ermen & Engels Cotton Mill |
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Engels-Platz | 51766 Engelskirchen | Germany |
| When Friedrich Engels, the son of a Wuppertal textile manufacturer, visited Manchester during the early years of the industrial revolution he was shocked by the working conditions in the factories. In... more >> |
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Haarlemmermeer | Steam Pumping Station De Cruquius |
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Cruquiusdijk 27 | 2142 ER Haarlemmermeer | Netherlands |
| King William I of the Netherlands had a choice between 240 windmills or three coastal pumping stations. He could not afford to waste time because every year violent storms beat against the banks of th... more >> |
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Heimbach | The Eifel water information centre in Heimbach |
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Karl-H.-Krischer-Platz 1 | 52396 Heimbach | Germany |
| It bubbles, roars and sprays. Visitors to the Eifel Water Information Centre (WIZE) come up against it, even before they have entered the building. Once inside a system of pipes lead guests through th... more >> |
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Helsinki | Museum of Technology |
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Viikintie 1 | 00560 Helsinki | Finland |
| Finland’s museum of technology, founded in 1969 and opened in 1975, occupies the premises built in the 1870s for the City of Helsinki Water Board, which are magnificently situated on the island call... more >> |
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Hereford | The Waterworks Museum Hereford |
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Broomy Hill | WR4 0LQ Hereford | Great Britain |
| Nowadays we take the purity of tap water for granted. Yet less than 150 years ago this was the exception rather than the rule, and polluted water supplies were often the cause of disease. Life expecta... more >> |
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Jalhay | Gileppe dam |
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Route de la Gileppe 55A | 4845 Jalhay | Belgium |
| The Gileppe dam at the confluence of the rivers Vesdre (Weser) and Getz was built in 1867-76 to supply drinking water to Eupen, parts of the Liege region and Verviers, where the woollen industry neede... more >> |
