Siderurgica de Ponferrada (MSP). This corporation subsequently emerged as the region's dominant economic driver, with its power plant supplying Ponferrada's general electricity grid from 1930 to 1971.
The NEB puts the focus on local and regional projects, as it is particularly on this level that a high degree of participation of the respective communities can be achieved. That said, industrialisati
2008, is the focus of an innovative urban regeneration programme aimed at driving new sustainable economic development. The ambitious and still ongoing refurbishment is attracting numerous private actors
Two ERIH Anchor Points along the route are of particular importance: the German Technical Museum and the Nazi Forced Labour Documentation Centre . The former - characterised from afar by the "Raisin B
"The Opels, the Opelers and the Opel: Car - Industry - Culture in Rüsselsheim". The tour combines economic, social and cultural aspects of Rüsselsheim's history and reveals the traces they have left in the
One of the earliest and most prominent examples of a housing estate for workers is New Lanark in Scotland, an ERIH Anchor Point and Unesco World Heritage Site. Established as early as 1800, the site w
A key role is played by Freiberg, a major mining centre in the region and the first free mining town in Germany following early traces of silver in 1168. It is also home to the Bergakademie (Mining Ac
n and conversion. How can sites steeped in industrial culture become the cradle of a new age of economic activity and production? How, in the best case, can they become beacons for active climate protection
Poland and particularly Silesia are currently undergoing a process of economic changes, initiated by the social and economic reforms at the end of the 20th century. One of the consequences is the liquidation [...] history of Silesia, hands-on protection of the tangible industrial heritage and education on the economic factors underlying the threat to industrial relics. The most important activity of the Foundation
Bridgewater, opens it in 1761 to transport coal from his collieries near Worsley to Manchester. The economic and financial success of this new transport route soon inspires plenty of imitators. In Norway,