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Hespertal Railway

Essen | Germany
Take a ride on the historical coaches of the Hespertalbahn (Herspertal railway) and enjoy the trip along the Baldeney lake. The museum railway takes you from Essen-Kupferdreh to Haus Scheppen, a former vassal estate of the abbey of Werden.Travelling through the today's recreational landscape ...
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Hespertal Railway
Prinz-Friedrich-Platz 3
45257 Essen, Germany

Thonet Museum

Frankenberg | Germany
Michael Thonet's (1796-1871) lifetime achievements impressively reflect the transition from handcraft to industrial mass production in the 19th century. Thonet is considered a pioneer of industrial design. Starting in 1819 he produced own designs using the then new bentwood process, which he ...
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Thonet Museum
Michael-Thonet-Straße 1
35066 Frankenberg, Germany

Central Station

Frankfurt am Main | Germany
In 1881, the German architect Hermann Eggert won the design contest for the station hall, his runner-up in the contest, Johann Wilhelm Schwedler was made chief engineer for the steel-related works. The station was built by the contractor Philipp Holzmann with construction starting in 1883. The ...
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Central Station
Am Hauptbahnhof 1
60329 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Poelzig Building, former IG-Farbenhaus

Frankfurt am Main | Germany
In 1928, IG Farben was the world's fourth-largest company and its largest chemical company. Consequently, the space requirements for the building were for one of the largest office buildings ever constructed. It was designed in the New Objectivity style. The 250-metre long and 35-metre tall building ...
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Poelzig Building, former IG-Farbenhaus
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
60323 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Chainforge Museum

Fröndenberg/Ruhr | Germany
The production of chains determined the industrial history of the town of Fröndenberg for over a hundred years. The product range extended from chains for agriculture to heavy chains, especially ship and anchor chains.  Besides the German shipyards and the mining industry of the Ruhr area, oil ...
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Chainforge Museum
Kulturzentrum Ruhraue
Ruhrstrasse 12
58730 Fröndenberg, Germany

Museum of Glass and Ceramic

Großalmerode | Germany
The museum of Großalmerode, the „city of good clay”, takes its visitors on a trip through 800 years of clay work and glass-making, showing the development of local trades and their impact on the people involved, with a primary focus on the time from the beginning of the industrialization until the ...
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Museum of Glass and Ceramic
Kleiner Kirchrain 3
37247 Großalmerode, Germany

Bergbau-Technik-Park

Großpösna | Germany
Central Germany has a long history of the extraction, refining and use of lignite. The testimony of this industry that profoundly shaped the landscape will soon be nothing more but "blue spots" – that is lakes – on the map. Only the few remaining open-cast mining machines will tell the story of the ...
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Bergbau-Technik-Park
Am Westufer 2
04463 Großpösna, Germany

Technical Museum of the Saltworks and Saltworkers

Halle | Germany
For many centuries Halle was one of the principal salt-producing cities in Germany. The city’s name is an ancient Indo-Germanic word for salt, and the first documentary reference to the brine springs in the vicinity dates from 961 ad. In the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries salt was produced by ...
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Technical Museum of the Saltworks and Saltworkers
Mansfelder Strasse 52
06108 Halle, Germany

Kaltehofe Elbe Island Water Art

Hamburg | Germany
It is not far from Hamburg's city centre to the green gem in the Norderelbe, the Water Art on Kaltehofe island in the Rothenburgsort district. From here, Hamburg was supplied with clean and germ-free drinking water for almost 100 years from 1893 onwards. Since 2011, the museum, industrial monument ...
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Kaltehofe Elbe Island Water Art
Kaltehofe Hauptdeich 6-7
20539 Hamburg, Germany

Großauheim Museum of Art and Industrial History

Hanau | Germany
The Großauheim Museum has been housed in the former power station and in the historical bathhouse since 1983. It has been fundamentally overhauled and its contents given a new direction in the past few years. The exhibition area is divided into two sections. In August 2010, the art exhibition opened ...
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Großauheim Museum of Art and Industrial History
Pfortenwingert 4
63457 Hanau, Germany

Werra Potash Mining Museum

Heringen (Werra) | Germany
The discovery of potassic salts in the valley of the river Werra, about 70 kilometers southeast of Kassel at the border of Hesse and Thuringia, in 1893 promoted the emergence of a still operating mining area with occasionally up to 30 pits and various potash plants processing the raw material to ...
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Werra Potash Mining Museum
Dickesstraße 1
36366 Heringen (Werra), Germany

Ewald Mine | Hoheward Landscape Park

Herten | Germany
The history of the Ewald colliery began in 1871. Three mining contractors in Essen, one of whom Ewald Hilger, gave his name to the pit, set up the colliery in the south of Herten. After a thorny start the colliery grew to become the most productive pit in the Ruhrgebiet, above all after the Second ...
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Ewald Mine | Hoheward Landscape Park
Besucherzentrum Hoheward
Werner-Heisenberg-Straße 14
45699 Herten, Germany

Immenhausen Glassmuseum

Immenhausen | Germany
The Glass Museum in Immenhausen, established in 1987 in a building of the former glassworks Süßmuth, is one of the few museums specialised on glass products in Germany. Between World War II and its shut down in 1987 the company produced high-quality consumer glassware like vases, bowls, and goblets. ...
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Immenhausen Glassmuseum
Am Bahnhof 3
34376 Immenhausen, Germany

Maste-Barendorf Historic Factory

Iserlohn | Germany
Living industrial culture, modern art and nature come together in the historic factory site of Maste-Barendorf. Where brass was cast in the 19th century, an artists' and museum village now stretches out with numerous cultural events in the changing seasons, a participatory garden, gastronomy and an ...
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Maste-Barendorf Historic Factory
Baarstraße 220-226
58636 Iserlohn, Germany

Funkerberg Radio Technology Museum

Königs Wusterhausen | Germany
The windmill on the hill at Königs Wusterhausen was used for radio tests in 1911. A military radio station was built in 1913. It used Morse code and then did early experiments in voice broadcasting. The first radio programme in Germany was broadcast here in 1920. By 1926 there were 12 masts and ...
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Funkerberg Radio Technology Museum
Sender- und Funktechnikmuseum
Funkerberg 20
15711 Königs Wusterhausen, Germany

The House of Silk Culture

Krefeld | Germany
Krefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia has a long association with the silk industry. The House of Silk occupies the building of a silk goods manufacturer dating from 1868. The large windows facing south gave good light for manual weaving. From 1908 it was the factory of Hubert Gotzes and his sons, who ...
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The House of Silk Culture
Luisenstraße 15
47799 Krefeld, Germany

Uerdingen Wastewater Treatment Plant

Krefeld | Germany
The Uerdingen wastewater treatment plant was built in 1909 and was in operation until 1962. Today it is one of the last surviving examples of urban sanitation from the period of burning issues resulting from the enormous growth of cities during the industrialization of Europe at the end of the 19th ...
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Uerdingen Wastewater Treatment Plant
Rundweg 20-22
47829 Krefeld, Germany

Bodan Wharft

Kressbronn am Bodensee | Germany
Bodan shipyard was the largest shipyard on Lake Constance from 1919-2011. Ferries and excursion boats for Lake Constance and the large Swiss lakes were built here. An engine of the "Lodi", the largest Lake Constance ferry built here with a length of 82m, can be seen today in the former hall no 1. ...
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Bodan Wharft
Bodanstraße
88079 Kressbronn am Bodensee, Germany

Lauf Industrial Museum

Lauf an der Pegnitz | Germany
The Lauf Industrial Museum, located just 20 kilometres north-east of Nuremberg, is dedicated to the living and working environment of an industrialised society between 1900 and 1970. Lauf was already economically important in pre-industrial times. Many businesses used the water power of the Pegnitz ...
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Lauf Industrial Museum
Sichartstrasse 5-25
90480 Lauf an der Pegnitz, Germany

Museum of the printing arts

Leipzig | Germany
An historic printing works in Leipzig accommodates a museum which holds collections of international significance and offers to visitors opportunities for gaining an understanding of the technologies that enabled the communication of knowledge of many kinds for 500 years before the advent of the ...
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Museum of the printing arts
Museum für Druckkunst
Nonnenstrasse 38
04229 Leipzig, Germany

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