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Here we lived and worked. European Theme Route Housing & Architecture
The continuous improvement in the processing of iron and concrete during the Industrial Revolution opened up new and previously undreamt-of potentials for architects and engineers. At the same time industrialisation caused a revolution in the construction of housing as a result of the grave deficit in decent housing caused by the thousands of workers who migrated to booming factory regions. One of the first entrepreneurs to concern himself with social questions was the early British socialist, Robert Owen. At the end of the 18th century he conceived an ideal town for his workers in the utopian tradition of the Renaissance.
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Monschau | Red House Monschau |
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Laufenstraße 10 | 52156 Monschau | Germany |
| The guests reverently climb the wonderfully carved wooden staircase sweeping upwards in a curve to the first floor of the house. In doing so they gaze on a picture of cloth production as it generally ... more >> |
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Murcia | Museum of Water Power |
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Los Molinos del Rio Segurac/ Molinos 1 | 30002 Murcia | Spain |
| Water power has always been important in the history of the city of Murcia in south-eastern Spain. There were eight mills on the River Segura and its associated canal in the late middle ages. The Moli... more >> |
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Napoli | Real Albergo dei Poveri (Palazzo Fuga) |
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Piazza Carlo Iii, 5 | 80137 Napoli | Italy |
| The Alberg de Poveri (hotel of the poor) in Naples is one of the supreme expressions of enlightened despotism in Europe, and influenced the provision of accommodation for the poor in many countries. T... more >> |
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Noisiel | Noisiel Ville d’Histoire |
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200 place Gaston Menier | 77186 Noisiel | France |
| Noisiel is one of the best-preserved industrial communities in Europe. At its centre is a chocolate factory of 1872 designed for Emile Justin Menier (1812-81) by the engineer Jules Logre and the archi... more >> |
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Paris | Gare d’Orsay |
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1 rue de Bellechasse/62 rue de Lille | 75343 Paris | France |
| The conversion of the former terminus of the Chemin de Fer de Paris a Orleans on the left bank of the River Seine into an art gallery is acknowledged to be one of the outstanding examples in Europe of... more >> |
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Paris | Les Grandes Moulins de France |
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Quai Panhard et Lavassor | Paris | France |
| The milling complex known as Les Grands Moulins de Paris on the left bank of the River Seine in the 13th arrondisement, not far from the Bibliotheque National, was built between 1919 and 1924 to the d... more >> |
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Port Sunlight | Port Sunlight Village & Sunlight Vision Museum |
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King George’s Drive | CH62 5DX Port Sunlight | Great Britain |
| With Lord Leverhulme´s gift to his wife - the magnificient Lady Lever Art Gallery - at its heart, this is no ordinary model worker´s village. Port Sunlight is a garden village which was founded in 1... more >> |
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Potsdam | Steam Pump House |
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Breite Strasse 28 | 14467 Potsdam | Germany |
| The water-pumping station on the banks of the Neustadter Havelbucht in Potsdam is one of the most extraordinary industrial buildings in Europe. Its purpose was to accommodate an 81.4 hp steam engine b... more >> |
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Prosperous | Prosperous spinning settlement |
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Prosperous | Ireland |
| Prosperous (An Chorrchoill) in County Kildare was a cotton-spinning settlement, established, with philanthropic motives, by Robert Brooke in 1780. It lies on the Bog of Allen, in the very centre of Ir... 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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Ratingen | Rhineland Industrial Museum Textile Mill Cromford |
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Cromforder Allee 24 | 40878 Ratingen | Germany |
| There are many recipes for success. One of them is “no time to lose”. This could very well apply to the old Cromford spinning mill in Ratingen in the Bergisch Land, now one of the on-site museums ... more >> |
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Rotterdam | Van Nelle Factory |
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Van Nelleweg 1 | 304 BC Rotterdam | Netherlands |
| The Van Nelle factory in Schiedam, a suburb to the west of Rotterdam, is one of the outstanding industrial buildings of the Nieuwe Bouwen, the Modernist style of the Netherlands.
The Van Nelle com... more >> |
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Santa Coloma de Cervello | Colonia Güell |
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08690 Santa Coloma de Cervello | Spain |
| The Colonia Guell is a workers’ settlement in the Garden City style built by the Catalan textile entrepreneur Eusebi Güell (1846-1918) around his principal factory that he re-located to Santa Colom... more >> |
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Schio | The Schio & Vincentino open air museum of industrial archaeology |
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Palazzo Asilo RossiVia Pasubio 92 | 36015 Schio | Italy |
| Schio, 26 km north-west of Vicenza, became one of the most important textile centres in Italy in the second half of the 19th century, although until the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 it belonged to the ... more >> |
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Sedan | Dijonval cloth factory |
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Avenue du Général-Margueritte 10-6 | Sedan | France |
| The Dijonval cloth factory at Sedan has the appearance of a palace rather than a textile mill, and is an evocative monument to the role of the state in the economy of France of the ancien regime. The ... more >> |
