Industry , located in the world's oldest surviving passenger station of 1830, the railway already entered the steam age thanks to the inventions of industrial pioneers such as Richard Trevithik and George

member Ewald Future Site in Herten offers access to extraordinary "lost places": guests are allowed to enter otherwise forbidden areas and locked rooms of the Ewald mine. The Henrichshütte Ironworks in Hattingen

century. Another innovator, Count Henrich zu Stollberg-Wernigerode, also recognised the opportunity to enter the new technology of coke-fired blast furnaces. His Henrichshütte Ironworks , founded in 1854 and

With the completion of Central Shaft XII in 1932, one of the most efficient coal mines in the world entered the stage of the Ruhr region. Not long after its demise in 1986, today's ERIH Anchor Point began