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ERIH Board meeting in Katowice/Poland
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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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Bad Gastein | Altböckstein Montanmuseum |
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Schareckstraße 7 | 5640 Bad Gastein | Austria |
| Böckstein which lies south of Bad Gastein and north of the Tauern Tunnel has been important for the mining of gold and silver and for salt extraction since the middle ages. As in other mining enterpr... more >> |
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Bad Reichenhall | Old Saltworks |
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Salinenstraße | 83435 Bad Reichenhall | Germany |
| The largest saltworks in Germany is located in Bavaria, at Bad Reichenhall on the Austrian border, 16 km south-west of Salzburg. The record of working salt in the area goes back to the year 682 ad, an... more >> |
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Banska Stiavnica | Open Air Museum of Mining |
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J.K Hella 12 | 969 00 Banska Stiavnica | Slovakia |
| Banska Stiavnica – a world heritage site - was from the 13th century one of Europe’s most important sources of silver, lead and iron ore, and the town retains many buildings that provide of its pr... more >> |
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Barger-Compascuum | Peat park: the world of peat |
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Berkenrode 4 | 7884 TR Barger-Compascuum | Netherlands |
| The 180 ha Veenpark is an open-air museum of the peat-digging industry, based in a village established in the 19th century by poor farmers from Hanover, who made habitable a region of impassable bogs.... more >> |
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Barßel | Elisabethfehn Moorland Museum |
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Oldenburger Straße 1 | 26676 Barßel | Germany |
| Die Geschichte Elisabethfehns beginnt mit dem Bau des Hunte-Ems-Kanals Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Im Zuge der Kultivierung der großen Oldenburger Moorgebiete im Nordwesten Deutschlands entstand dies... more >> |
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Beamish | Beamish Museum |
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DH9 0RG Beamish | Great Britain |
| Beamish, once called the North of England Open Air Museum and now ‘the living museum of the north’, occupies a site of more than 100 ha 14 km north-west of Durham City. It was established in the 1... more >> |
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Beckingen-Düppenweiler | Historical Copper Mine |
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Piesbacher Straße | 66701 Beckingen-Düppenweiler | Germany |
| Coal mining is a dominant feature of the industrial and social history of the Saarland. But in Düppenweiler they used to mine copper. In 1723 a peasant came upon a lump of cupriferous rock whilst plo... more >> |
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Berchtesgaden | Berchtesgaden Salt Mine |
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Bergwerkstrasse 83 | 83471 Berchtesgaden | Germany |
| Berchtesgaden, 19 km from Bad Reichenhall, was an independent administration until it was incorporated in Bavaria in the early nineteenth century. Salt had been extracted there since the sixteenth cen... more >> |
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Bergisch Gladbach | Regional Museum of Mining, Handicraft and Trade |
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Burggraben 9-12 | 51429 Bergisch Gladbach | Germany |
| The cellar is amazing! Suddenly it opens out into a complete mining gallery! Rough hewn timber struts support the walls and ceilings, trolleys and drills stand at the ready, a hoisting cage is there, ... more >> |
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Beringen | Flemish Coal Mining Museum |
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Koolmijnlaan 201 | 3582 Beringen | Belgium |
| What a sight! The long line of carefully built individual showers in the miners’ washroom appears to be never-ending. Here every man had his own cabin. The progressive features on the site are mainl... more >> |
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Bex | Salt Mines of the Alps |
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Route des Mines de Sel | 1880 Bex | Switzerland |
| Visitors to Bex, 20 km south of Montreux, are able to see Switzerland’s only working salt mine as well as extensive displays illustrating the history of the salt industry in the region. In the 17th ... more >> |
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Bexbach | Saarland mining museum |
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Niederbexbacher Straße | 66450 Bexbach | Germany |
| If you want to go back deep into the past, you should first climb high up in the present. The entrance to the Hindenburg tower (built in 1934) in the Saarland Mining Museum in Bexbach is situated at a... more >> |
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Bitola | NI Institute and Museum |
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Kliment Ohridsti Street bb | 7000 Bitola | Macedonia (FYROM) |
| Bitola (formerly Monastir) is a large and ancient city on the edge of the Pelagonian plain with a current population of about 75,000. It was part of the Ottoman Empire between 1382 and 1912, and suffe... more >> |
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Blaenavon | Big Pit: National Coal Museum |
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NP4 9XP Blaenavon | Great Britain |
| A small town – with a huge effect. The South Wales town of Blaenavon was once the spearhead of the industrial revolution. For 200 years everything revolved around coal and iron here in the Afon Lwyd... more >> |
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Blaenavon | Blaenavon World Heritage Centre |
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Church Road | Blaenavon | Great Britain |
| This is the first dedicated World Heritage Centre in the UK and is the focal point for the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape World Heritage Site. The Visitor Centre combines video presentations, interact... more >> |
