Even today blast furnaces, gasometers and pithead towers continue to give the Ruhrgebiet its own unique features. They are important witnesses to 150 years of industrial history in the region, and also to the process of structural transformation which has been taking place here for several decades. The disused factory sites are not sites of nostalgia and regret.

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The slate hillsides of the Rhineland do not resemble an industrial area in the slightest. That said, it is indeed an industrial area whose economic roots can be traced back into the distant past. This was one of the first regions to make charcoal from timber, manufacture iron from ore and harness water for power.

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„Europe en miniature", c’est ainsi que l’on désigne souvent la région des trois pays autour de Liège, de Maastricht et d’Aix-la-Chapelle, l’Euregio Meuse-Rhin. Avec trois pays, trois langues et cinq régions – les Belges y contribuent avec une province wallonne et une province flamande ainsi qu‘avec la Communauté allemande ...

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For centuries the region along the Saar, Lorraine and Luxembourg has been deeply influenced by the borders between them. Nonetheless without the "Minette" from Lorraine it was impossible to make steel in the Saar because there were no borders underground.

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Au début du 20e siècle, la région de l’actuel Land de Saxe-Anhalt avance parmi les premières régions industrielles d’Europe. L’invention de l’engrais chimique à Piesteritz, la construction aéronautique novatrice dans les usines Junkers à Dessau et bien d’autres performances pionnières atteignent rapidement une renommée internationale.
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Lusatia is swimming in a sea of lignite. Over decades the area between the Elster, Spree und Neisse rivers was transformed into a centre for the power industry by opencast pits, briquette factories and power stations. Visitors were few and far between. Today, however, they are streaming in – on the trail of an industrial past which, in many places, is now a living present.
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The Route of Industrial Heritage Rhine-Main links the most important sites of the region's industrial history from Aschaffenburg on the Main to Bingen on the Rhine.
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