05-06-2025 | ERIH project Shine4Future: Project Management Group met in Terrassa, Spain Implementing seven work packages by 2028 is the target set by the EU funding… more 11-05-2025 | ERIH Annual Conference 2025: [...] Industrial Heritage founded, followed by the ERIH Germany Dialogue After three years of preparatory work, largely driven by ERIH, Germany launched a… more 13-02-2025 | Shine4Future: strategic ERIH project
empire in 1710, the first manufactories gradually emerged, such as the saw mill in Räpina, glass works at Põltsama ... more FINLAND Finland’s rise as a prosperous industrial nation is due primarily to
working conditions and the miserable wages. The workers fought back in bitter strikes and the region developed into a centre of the early European workers' movement. Liège and its surroundings, well connected [...] Economy of Belgium World Atlas: What are the biggest industries in Belgium? Grand Hornu. Mine and Workers Settlement
to the peasants in the French Revolution: Thus there were hardly any propertyless agricultural workers. At the same time, the abolition of large landholdings eliminated a source of investment capital [...] fields were discovered in 1720 - by the end of the century, the mines already employed thousands of workers. However, widespread industrialisation did not take off - poor transport routes contributed to this
EVENTS Images of European Industrial Heritage Erih and Events "WORK it OUT" Dance Event 2021 more ERIH Conference 2020 Oberhausen & Online more "WORK it OUT" Dance Event 2020 more ERIH Conference 2019 Berlin
online "WORK it OUT" ERIH Dance Event 12 September 2021 ERIH Conference 2020 - Oberhausen (D) & ONLINE "WORK it OUT" ERIH Dance Event 13 September 2020 ERIH Conference 2019 - Berlin (D) "Work it Out" ERIH [...] The dark sides of the Industrial Revolution Slavery and colonialism Nazi and other forced labour Workers' misery and labour movement Destruction of the environment Industrialised genocide Stories about [...] Projects Brochure "The International Story" Presentation "Change with an Impact" ERIH Dance Event "WORK it OUT" Objects and Stories "Linking Europe" ERIH Industrial Heritage Barometer Exchange programme
(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 Bochum (D). [...] Essen (D). Zollverein Coking Plant WHS Euskirchen (D). Müller Textile Works LVR Industrial Museum Euskirchen (D). Müller Textile Works LVR Industrial Museum Friedrichshafen (D). Zeppelin Museum Furtwangen [...] santralistanbul Kerkrade (NL). Continium Discovery Center Lage (D). Brick Works LWL Industrial Museum Lage (D). Brick Works LWL Industrial Museum Lanark (GB). New Lanark WHS Lemmer (NL). DF Wouda Steam
skylines in the coal regions were quickly covered in colliery towers and the chimney stacks of iron works. Workers poured into the new industrial centres and in a few years villages exploded into major cities: [...] damp cellars. Working hours were around 14 hours a day and the workers were slaves to the rhythm of the machines. Women were expected to work just as hard for less pay, especially in the collieries and textile [...] and women's work in Great Britain. France and Prussia followed. In order to damp down social conflicts the German government introduced sickness, accident and old age insurance for workers in the 1880s
site’s own history and visitor offers - other (industrial-) tourism attractions in the region - the work and offers of local/regional industrial heritage networks - the ERIH networkservice information such
highlight the economic resources of this heritage for sustainable development and to encourage voluntary work to protect and preserve this heritage. The Ministry of Urban Development and Monument Preservation [...] symbols of change. They are not only revitalised in a museum context, but also reused to live and work in. They are the setting for the creation of new and traditional products and even goods and services [...] the concept of 'regeneration through heritage'. Last but not least, the thousands of 'cathedrals of work' have become the most popular attractions of European cultural tourism, with millions of visitors
production landscape developed in the 1890s. Copenhagen, with its iron works, textile factories and expanding districts of workers’ housing, was its undisputed centre. Soon, one third of all Danes were [...] such as Hungary, Spain and Greece, which continued to depend on agriculture while coal mines, iron works and textile factories were becoming established, slipped into poverty. By contrast, Denmark developed [...] Coast (now part of Ghana) to three small Danish islands in the Caribbean, where most were forced to work in the sugar cane plantations. In addition to sugar, the merchants then brought tobacco and coffee
early on; and the powerful naval city of Venice, whose arsenals at times employed over ten thousand workers, began standardising components – the key prerequisite for mass production – for ship construction [...] tradition, become concentrated in the regions of the North. However, the productivity of the spinning works lagged dramatically behind that of the British industry. Later, a major industrial zone evolved when [...] remained the great exception to the North-South disparity. This city was home to shipyards and iron works, machine shops and vehicle makers. As a result,, Italy’s first railway was laid from Naples to the
partitioning of this nation occurred during the decisive 150 years in which Europe’s first textile works, coal mines and railways were built. During those years, parts of today’s Poland belonged to the [...] cotton textile industry there starting in 1820 – with all the adverse side effects: exploitation of workers and dramatic environmental pollution. At about the same time, a major centre of heavy industry emerged [...] Katowice which produced extremely tough wrought iron, and succeeded in establishing a steam engine works in Gleiwitz. Also, the deposits of zinc ore around Katowice were quite significant. During the 19th
for cement, fertiliser and chemicals in a bid to become independent of imports. The giant steel works in Ereğli on the Black Sea commenced operation in 1965. Among the increasing number of private start-ups [...] less-efficient state-owned companies have been privatised: for example Sümerbank, shares in the steel works in Ereğli, and the Tüpraş Group, which controls Turkey’s oil refineries. The food industry contributes
dramatic. The mechanisation of textile manufacture alone put hundreds of thousands of cottage workers out of work, and Inner Bohemia remained largely agrarian for a long time. As the population was growing [...] comprising industrial workers, impoverished tradesmen, carters and servants. At the same time, national conflicts became more acute: the influx of Czech-speaking rural workers from Inner Bohemia transformed [...] there, the city developed into one of the empire’s most important industrial centres. Mines and iron works were also established early on to exploit the rich deposits of coal and iron ore: centred in Bohemia
rapidly growing population. The villages along the Ruhr grew into towns with overcrowded and dark workers' quarters. On the Saar in Neunkirchen and Burbach, the ironworks also expanded. Industrialisation [...] also multiplied. In Silesia, a traditional stronghold of weaving, there were hunger riots by home workers, which drew widespread attention to the darker side of mechanisation. The chemical factories, which
the factory was located had its own housing estate for the workers, a kindergarten and the director’s villa. It even had its own electricity works at a time when the town of Luxemburg was still lit by gas
the crown subsidised operations such as the arms manufactories in Toledo and Trubia and the glass works at La Granja. Starting in the 17 th century, iron ore was refined in the Basque region. Aside from [...] the raw materials were worked as well. In the Basque province of Vizcaya however, mines and steel works proliferated, stimulated by Britain’s insatiable demand for iron. On their return trip, the freighters [...] exports and supported the expansion of the labour-intensive Asturian coal mines and Basque steel works. The INI attempted to keep the shipbuilding industry competitive by merging the major shipyards, while
An important advance in iron smelting was achieved in 1766 by the entrepreneur Henry Cort: his workers had to constantly stir ("to puddle") the pig iron on an open hearth, the "puddling furnace", so that
