sation and offers a hands-on experience of our shared European history. The aim is for every ERIH site to offer visitors a glimpse of Europe's many connections and interdependencies. ERIH is supported [...] heritage. This funding has enabled the production of this brochure, which aims to encourage ERIH sites to present the European dimension of industrialisation to their visitors. Like ERIH's Theme Routes [...] heritage and to provide ideas for incorporating the international story into the presentation of sites. This brochure is a first step in presenting this complex subject and we look forward to receiving

the face of Europe. Consequently it has left us a rich industrial heritage. A gigantic network of sites spread all over the continent. It only has to be brought back to life. That is what the European Route [...] is the European Route of Industrial Heritage, a network of the most important industrial heritage sites in Europe. It is the common link between them all. From disused production plants to industrial landscape [...] it unites many different traditions within a single idea. The Regional Routes link landscapes and sites which have left their mark on European industrial history. Germany's Ruhrgebiet, for example. Or South

tidy and ready to be fired up once more”. That may be so. But blast… more ERIH PRESENTS over 2,400 sites from all European countries AMONG THEM OVER 100 ANCHOR POINTS Industrial History of 51 countries HISTORY [...] and its Route System Please accept cookies in order to use maps Anchor Point Member ERIH association Site Filter Map Only Anchor Points Anchorpoints only Regional routes Asturias Basque Country Berlin Catalonia [...] Industry Textiles Transport Water Xtra: Company Museums and Factory Tours Xtra: UNESCO World Heritage Sites + – Shrink map I want to go there! My ERIH Route Become a member Images of Europe browse ERIH brochure

INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF A REGION Listen In many European regions there are few industrial heritage sites with touristic potential. Each of this regions has its own specialisms. In this respect European [...] it unites many different traditions within a single idea. The Regional Routes link landscapes and sites which have left their mark on European industrial history. Germany's Ruhrgebiet, for example. Or South [...] the large machine. ERIH animates and supports local actors to present the industrial history and sites of their region in the framework of networks or routes, to develop tourist offers and to promote them

then planned to work with the sites to develop ideas for concrete projects and actions (such as documenting best practice examples) to help other industrial heritage sites.

SERVICE ERIH IH BAROMETER Since 2018, ERIH has been conducting surveys of industrial heritage sites in Europe in partnership with the Regionalverband Ruhr. more EXPERTS DATABASES Following you will find

video of the shared dance event "WORK it OUT“ in 2019 ... following the movies of all participating sites: Art Casting Museum. Lauchhammer (D) Baruth Glassmaking Village. Baruth (D) Bursledon Brick Works [...] Radio Station WHS. Grimeton (S) Hansa Coking Plant. Dortmund (D) Historic Silver Mine World Heritage Site. Tarnowskie Góry (PL) Hendrichs Drop Forge LVR Industrial Museum. Solingen (D) Ignacy Historic Mine [...] Industrial Museum. Lage (D) Lauchhammer Biotowers. Lauchhammer (D) Le Bois du Cazier World Heritage Site. Marcinelle (B) Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum | Exploseum. Bydgoszcz (PL) Līgatne Culture and

part of the client's factory premises. In addition, Solingen provided sought-after support to other sites, for instance in Klingenthal in Alsace, which probably would not have developed as it did without [...] necessarily mean that technical standards vary from country to country. Sometimes, even within a single site, the plants‘ machinery differs considerably from one another. In addition, hardly any other industry [...] the Spanish cutlery industry, as well as Portugal have experienced a tremendous boom. The two major sites of the Italian cutlery industry are located on the southern slope of the Alps: Premana east of Lake

STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE: BIOGRAPHIES History is always made by people. Therefore, we don't present only sites, but also biographies of persons who influenced the industrial history. more VIRTUAL EXHIBITION "LINKING

translations Dr Barrie Trinder , Olney, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom (essay "Industrial Revolution", sites of European Theme Routes, biographies) Lorenz Töpperwien , Cologne, Germany (Achor Points, Regional [...] translations German > English) Dr Peter Wakelin , Llangattock Lingoed, Abergavenny, United Kingdom (sites of European Theme Routes, biographies) Roy Kift , Berlin, Germany (translations German > English) [...] respective picture credits, all photos are provided and reproduced by courtesy of the corresponding sites, by local or regional tourism organisations or by the photographers of ERIH e.V. Concept & Design

Conference 2016 - Porto (P) For more photos see Turismo Industrial de S. João da Madeira website Facebook site of Município de Santo Tirso ERIH Conference 2024 Łódź (PL) & Online ERIH Conference 2023 - Bilbao

members on a variety of topics, with open discussion. A new format is 'My day at work', where ERIH site staff present their day-to-day work and raise interest in industrial heritage as a potential career

Technical Museum Birmingham (GB). Museum of the Jewellery Quarter Blaenavon (GB). Iron Work World Heritage Site Blegny (B). Blegny Mine WHS Bocholt (D). Textile Works LWL Industrial Museum Bochum (D). Railway Museum [...] Ring Essen (D). Zollverein Coking Plant WHS. Swimming Pool Essen (D). Zollverein Mine World Heritage Site Essen (D). Zollverein Coking Plant WHS Euskirchen (D). Müller Textile Works LVR Industrial Museum

were mainly used in coal and ore mines, the timber and fishing industries, and on large construction sites, such as the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Sea Canal in 1931-33. Food - usually bread or soup [...] Verantwortung. Zukunft: Reappraisal of NS forced labor Concentration camp prisoners at the construction site of the ‘Valentin’ bunker, Bremen (D). 1944 (cutout; Denkort Bunker Valentin/LzpB, photo: J. Seubert)

From 1807, gas lighting became widespread in England. First in textile mills, which produced gas on site from coal, then for street lighting: cities built huge cylindrical gas tanks in central gas works [...] beginning of the First World War for lack of ammunition. Related Links History of Chemicals Industry Sites of the Theme Route

coalmining area between Leipzig and Cottbus; an early example of a gigantic, functional industrial site. Even then villages were abandoned as mining ate into the landscape. The principle is still the same [...] artificial landscape – and behind the new woods full of beech trees, the land continues to be exploited. Sites of the Theme Route

These proved to be the first really competitive universal engines, because they could be used on all sites independent of water or wind. For this reason the steam engine is regarded as the mother of industrial [...] "Auf der Spur des schwarzen Goldes. Vom Treibstoff der Industriegesellschaft: Ölmuseen in Europa" Sites of the Theme Route

were assigned specific production tasks, largely without regard to the prerequisites available on site. Raw materials and labour were imported from other republics where necessary, and the products exported

were set up and new industrial businesses expanded. In 1837 Auguste Metz erected an ironworks on the site of an oil and flour mill in Eich. Within the space of a few years he had erected several ironworks

in Temirtau near Karaganda. In 1949, the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb at the test site in Semei (then Semipalatinsk). The facilities remained in operation until 1991, leaving radioactive