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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...
that the deepest point in Holland lies seven metres below sea level?
That said, the Dutch have dried up huge areas of land and continue to reclaim new areas from the water. More than half of the province of North Holland alone consists of reclaimed areas. At the same time the South province is the most densely populated and industrialised region in the whole of the Netherlands. How this came to be so is made clear by the Holland Route, one of the regional routes along the European Route of Industrial Heritage. Today the museum in the old De Cruquius pumping station shows how three steam-driven water drawing machines reclaimed an area of more than 18.000 hectares from Lake Haarlem.
