fresh impulse to industry in the Ruhrgebiet. It’s working. Anyone who visits the Chemical Industry Estate in Marl will come away with a completely new idea of the Ruhrgebiet. [...] industrial heritage looks like. In the Chemical Industry Estate in Marl, on the northern edge of the Ruhrgebiet, it is already part of the present. One of Europe’s largest chemical sites is booming here on the [...] mind-boggling view over the length and breadth of this gigantic estate, including the town of Marl, the Ruhrgebiet and the southern areas of Munsterland. The Chemical Industry Estate in Marl has a long history

complete blast furnace site in Germany. This was what an industrial plant looked like before the Ruhrgebiet stepped in to create an industrial landscape par excellence. The blast furnace is 10 metres high [...] further renovations. But all this was in vain. The technology was hopeless behind the times. In the Ruhrgebiet furnaces had long started using coke whose heating qualities were infinitely superior to that of [...] as a direct link between the ore reserves in the Siegerland region and the blast furnaces in the Ruhrgebiet. The Luisenhütte gradually receded into the sidelines, closed down in 1864 and has remained unaltered

platform at the top of the pithead gear. The panorama birds-eye view shows all too clearly how the Ruhrgebiet has changed in the last few decades. The German Mining Museum was set up in 1930. The underground [...] all over the world and featuring different minerals - even when the emphasis is clearly on the Ruhrgebiet. One of the notable features of the museum are the many different features, like the role of women

constructed between 1850 and 1950 for loading and unloading grain and colliery timber for the Ruhrgebiet. Nowadays it is an attractive city suburb which combines working, residential and leisure areas [...] the grain-loading area gave the Duisburg inner harbour its reputation as the “breadbasket of the Ruhrgebiet”. Today it is a jewel of contemporary industrial heritage.

The Mittelland Canal, the strategic link between Berlin and the Ruhrgebiet, was authorised in 1905 and crosses the River Weser at Minden. It was part of a comprehensive programme of waterways development

operation in 1927. At the time similar plants were springing up like mushrooms everywhere in the Ruhrgebiet as a result of the booming steel industry whose blast furnaces consumed huge amounts of coke. Hansa [...] twelve other industrial sites. Of these Hansa represents the period in which heavy industry in the Ruhrgebiet began to integrate its powers along fully-planned lines.

beauty by way of reason”. In this Osthaus’s primary concern was to improve living conditions in the Ruhrgebiet. He did everything in his power to bring outstanding artists to Hagen and combine their creative [...] of Hohenhof. It forms the core of a garden city intended to set an example to the whole of the Ruhrgebiet. It comprises three housing estates, each tailored to the meet the needs of its inhabitants; middle

picturesque setting above Lake Baldeney. The Villa Hügel was once the home of the Krupp family, a Ruhrgebiet dynasty whose members where instrumentally involved in the high and low points of modern German [...] accordance with the will of its original owner, it was transformed into a cultural centre for the Ruhrgebiet. The first artistic exhibitions presented here completely fulfilled this ambitious aim and the

viewing platform from where there is a panoramic view of the surrounding industrial landscape of the Ruhrgebiet including an additional attraction right next door: the Centro, one of the largest shopping malls

south of Herten. After a thorny start the colliery grew to become the most productive pit in the Ruhrgebiet, above all after the Second World War. For a time it boasted a workforce of over 4000 miners. Coal

of high-power industrialisation and simultaneously a symbol of structural transformation in the Ruhrgebiet. In 2001 the site was inscribed into the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.

Glückauf is a monument that symbolises the place of football in the working-class culture of the Ruhrgebiet. It stands in the former mining community of Gelsenkirchen, amongst houses and pubs that were once

Sometimes it takes time to make changes. In Hamm on the north-east edge of the Ruhrgebiet the long wait has paid off. For almost a hundred years nature ran wild on the disused site of the old Maximilian

crossing was the culmination of decades of efforts to create a direct canal connection between the Ruhrgebiet and Berlin. The first outlines for a navigable crossing of the Elbe go back to the year 1877. In

Germany. Very soon a dense urban conurbation had been created to rival the economic clout of the Ruhrgebiet. Structural changes after German reunification gave the chemical industries in the area a further

Not for nothing were there a lot of corner bars and pubs near the factories and collieries of the Ruhrgebiet. And not for nothing was beer one of the three standard products in the region, along with coal

state-of-the-art audio-visual aids which bring back to life the rise and fall of heavy industry in the Ruhrgebiet. The Altenberg zinc factory which opened in 1854 is one of the oldest metal-processing works in

small iron trade contributed greatly to making the region more industrialised than the neighbouring Ruhrgebiet until around 1850. The museum takes account of this tradition. Visitors are encouraged to touch

industrial communities in Ireland, including Bessbrook and Blarney, and some at Gelsenkirchen in the Ruhrgebiet, where one of the leading mining entrepreneurs was William Thomas Mulvany (1806-80), brother of