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Review of the ERIH Annual Conference 2012
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Welcome
to the European Route of Industrial Heritage, the tourism information network of industrial heritage in Europe.
Currently we present more than 1,000 sites in 43 European countries. Among these sites there are 80 Anchor Points which build the virtual ERIH main route. On sixteen Regional Routes you can discover the industrial history of these landscapes in detail. All sites relate to thirteen European Theme Routes which show the diversity of European industrial history and their common roots.
Anchor Point of the Day
Brick Works De Panoven | Zevenaar
The old Aberson cascade handform press may be over 100 years old but still cannot be written...
Do you know...
where the first electrically-driven winding engines in the world can be found?
In Dortmund at the Zollern II/IV colliery. Here all the most important engines were operated by electricity right at the start of the 20th century. The electrically-driven winding engines went into operation in 1902. Today the site is an anchor point along the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
