collection of more than 50 vehicles includes tramcars that operated in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Portugal and the Netherlands.

Mülheim on the River Ruhr was for long one of the chief leather working towns in Germany, and its industrial heritage is commemorated in a museum opened in 2003 in the former factory of the Abel company

centuries, extracting brine from wells and boiling it in iron pans, based on experience gained in Germany as well as on the results of archaeological excavations. The co-operative operation is commercially

quality olive oil which was supplied to the principal cities of Portugal and to customers in Flanders, Germany and Spain. The Lagar de Varas do Fojo, a building where oil was extracted and processed, has been

carriage of 1899 built in Manchester, and several locomotives of the 19th century from Britain and Germany, but Spanish locomotives of the 20th century are the most impressive features of the display. They

from Eksel once the home of Teutens, people who migrated each summer from Limburg to work in North Germany and Denmark. More strictly industrial buildings include two horse mills, a tower mill, two post mills

1915 and in the years after the Second World War. In the 1960s a third of all the shoes worn in Germany were made in the town. As in other shoemaking towns in Europe, the industry has declined as production

Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nurnberg (M.A.N.) is one of Germany’s foremost engineering companies, and its history is comprehensively illustrated in a museum in Augsburg, located in buildings that were formerly

hills that line the Nahe, and the towns developed into the principal jewellery manufacturing area in Germany. The German Gemstone Museum displays several thousand varieties of stone, and shows the ways in which

tein that over the centuries has been under both German and Danish rule, but it has belonged to Germany since 1864. It stands on the Eider river with which the Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, or Kiel Canal, the ship [...] in the town. At Rendsburg the railway line from Flensburg to Padborg, the principal route from Germany into Jutland, crosses the canal on a high-level cantilever bridge, which is also a transporter bridge

1886. The mill’s raw materials were drawn from many parts of Europe, including Flanders, northern Germany and the Baltic states. About 1898 the building was adapted as a maltings by William Jones, a Welshman

(Oberpfalz), 48 km south-east of Hof, has for centuries been one of the chief sources of buttons in Germany, and the industry continues today. The museum, located in a former brewery and opened in 1975, displays

was incorporated in the DDR. The museum, opened in 1984, claims to be the oldest of its kind in Germany and is based on a large collection of travellers samples, including dolls made of wood, porcelain

forced toy manufacturers to join large–scale collectives. Ultimately the whole toy industry in East Germany was incorporated into one nationalised concern with 27,000 employees, 10,000 of whom were in Sonneberg [...] forced toy manufacturers to join large–scale collectives. Ultimately the whole toy industry in East Germany was incorporated into one nationalised concern with 27,000 employees, 10,000 of whom were in Sonneberg

part of Frankfurt, 10 km to the east, since 1928. Its porcelain factory is the second oldest in Germany. It was founded in 1746 but operated only for 50 years. It was revived in 1971 at the Dalberger House

and potassium sulphate, K2SO4. The extraction of potash has been a major industry of that part of Germany west of Magdeburg and east of the Harz Mountains since the mid-19th century. Some of the best monuments

similar locomotives that from the 1920s until the early 1960s hauled express trains in most parts of Germany. It was placed with much ceremony in the Deutsches Museum in 1958, although similar locomotives continued

Witteveen, the ‘white peatlands’ that are characteristic of the border between the Netherlands and Germany. The railway occupies the original 19th century station buildings at Haaksbergen, where its visitor

ly those that served the peatlands of the eastern part of the Netherlands along the border with Germany. The museum occupies a 6 ha base, from which visitors are able to take lengthy rides on both 700

Mons, La Louviere, Charleroi, Sambreville, Flemalle and Liege to Herstal near the borders with Germany and the Netherlands. The trail incorporates 43 towns and villages, and 340 large pit heaps from the