is the official working group of volunteers, trainees, students, interns, postgraduates and young professionals in their first four years of employment. This category of membership provides a platform [...] to offer advice and support for a dynamic exchange of ideas and experiences. Regular roundtable discussions are held for YP members on a variety of topics, with open discussion. A new format is 'My day [...] day at work', where ERIH site staff present their day-to-day work and raise interest in industrialheritage as a potential career option. Young Professionals also attend ERIH Board meetings as advisors
ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM Listen The Industrial Revolution began in the fields of British farmers. Thanks to new cultivation methods, they were able to increase their yields in the [...] up-and-down motion of the steam engine into rotation so that it could set tens of thousands of spindles in motion on a single spinning machine. The spinning rooms and dust towers of the "spinning mills" [...] Isambard Kingdom Brunel, one of the most colourful personalities of the era. Around the middle of the 19th century, full industrialisation was achieved when cheap mass production of iron and steel began and
the territory of the modern country was in the hands of three different foreign powers. The fertile black-earth region to the west of the Dniepr was long held by the great power of the Poland-Lithuanian [...] be seen in the Kyiv Aviation Museum. Soon, the Ukraine was producing around half of all the USSR’s tanks and missiles, making the country a centre of the military-industrial complex. However, as in the [...] was a union republic of the 'Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)', which was dissoluted in 1991. Therefore, for completeness, also read our articles on the industrial history of the other former soviet
ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF TURKEY Listen By the beginning of the 20th century, the once-glorious Ottoman Empire had deteriorated for all practical purposes into an agricultural colony of the West. Due [...] santral istanbul energy museum – was established in Istanbul under the Ottomans, the new era saw the construction of numerous power and hydroelectric plants. After the Great Depression of 1929, the government [...] 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 was the first bakery of sweets manufacturer
there and a densely populated industrial region developed around the cities of Kerkrade and Heerlen. Even the crises of the interwar period could not stop the momentum of the upswing: in 1919 the airline [...] ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS Listen Industrialisation came late: on the one hand, because the Netherlands had only small deposits of the key raw materials coal and iron ore, and on the [...] revenues played as the technologies of the industrial age gradually took hold in the Netherlands is still unclear. In any case, they contributed to the construction of the railway network, which began in
HISTORY OF TEXTILES PRODUCTION Listen The eighteenth century cotton mills in Britain with their rows of spinning frames and thousands of rattling bobbins heralded the coming of the Industrial Revolution [...] ion of the textile industry began with spinning. The striking lack of yarn in the wool industry, one of the most important sectors of the British economy, led to attempts to mechanise the work of the spinners [...] important stock exchange, and the expanding industrial city of Manchester made the county of Lancashire the leading textile region in the world. Hundreds of thousands of workers abandoned the countryside for
demand also drove mechanisation of the textile industry, particularly in the region centred on Borås and the expanding industrial city of Norrköping. Towards the end of the century, Sweden profited greatly [...] ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF SWEDEN Listen Sweden’s long road to becoming an industrial nation followed a familiar path in that the process began with agricultural surpluses and a consequent population [...] state intervention and large-scale exports of the plentiful raw materials of iron ore and wood. By contrast, Sweden has very few coal deposits. Until the end of the 17th century, copper from the long-established
and management ofindustrialheritage requires a wide range of knowledge and skills. Industrialheritage is more than just industrial buildings and machinery, the "tangible" remains of industry. It also [...] knowledge of how to operate and maintain machinery, a wide range of techniques and skills, as well as sector-specific social routines and intangible heritage. But this knowledge is in danger of being lost [...] over time. Today, heritage organisations are increasingly facing the retirement of their first generation of professionals and volunteers - people who experienced life in these industrial communities at first
different image of the world of work, based on the ideas of self-responsibility and the market economy. This meant the concept of the "free worker" instead of the slave economy and free trade instead of customs [...] because of the lack of zinc. As early as the 16th century, Portuguese merchants had millions of brass bracelets made in the German Rhineland to pay for the slaves supplied to them by the kings of Benin. [...] sabre-rattling of the powerful industrial nations, which increasingly rivalled aggressively for colonies, were the needs of the dominant industries. Industrialisation also changed the ideological side of colonialism:
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dealing with industrialheritage. more LINKS Our link list: websites from all over Europe which present the industrialheritageof a country or a region – most of them from a tourism point of view. more [...] has been conducting surveys ofindustrialheritage sites in Europe in partnership with the Regionalverband Ruhr. more EXPERTS DATABASES Following you will find a selection of links to expert databases and
European Route ofIndustrialHeritage (ERIH) is doing. Come with us on an exciting journey of discovery along the milestones of European industrial history. What is ERIH ? ERIH is the European Route of Industrial [...] Industrial Heritage, a network of the most important industrialheritage sites in Europe. It is the common link between them all. From disused production plants to industrial landscape parks and inter-active [...] isation changed the face of Europe. Consequently it has left us a rich industrialheritage. A gigantic network of sites spread all over the continent. It only has to be brought back to life. That is what
the face of Europe. It has left us with a rich industrialheritage. A vast network of sites spread across Europe. It just needs to be brought back to life - and that is what the European Route of Industrial [...] Industrial Heritage (ERIH) is doing. Join us on an exciting journey of discovery through the most important sites of Europe's industrial history. Read more about ERIH and it's (virtual) route system of Anchor [...] SYSTEM: YOUR GUIDE TO EUROPE'S INDUSTRIALHERITAGE Listen Where was the first factory in the world? Where was the biggest steam engine built? And where was the most modern colliery of its time? Industrialisation
REGIONAL ROUTES OPEN UP THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF A REGION Listen In many European regions there are few industrialheritage sites with touristic potential. Each of this regions has its own specialisms [...] European industrial history. Germany's Ruhrgebiet, for example. Or South Wales, a key region in the "world's first industrial nation". Both these areas comprise a number of less significant industrial monuments [...] the times of Austria-Hungary in the 19th century and still today is one of the ... more Regional Routes in Finland Berlin At the beginning of the 20th century, Berlin had evolved into one of the largest
PROJECTS ERIH INDUSTRIALHERITAGE BAROMETER Since 2018 ERIH in cooperation with the Regionalverband Ruhr carries out surveys ofindustrialheritage sites in Europe. All industrialheritage sites are invited [...] comprises the twinning of thematically similar sites or networks to share experience and good practice and to develop skills and competences. more EUR ACADEMY OFINDUSTRIALHERITAGE Aim of the project is to [...] to attract young people to European industrialheritage as a career option. For this ERIH organises courses in cooperation with universities. more INDUSTRIALHERITAGE SUMMER SCHOOL The 14-day Summer School
impression of the European Route ofIndustrialHeritage? Do you need assistance with an individual research? Please do not hesitate to contact us: ERIH - European Route ofIndustrialHeritage e.V Office
Zollverein Mine World Heritage Site in Essen. It complements the multimedia information offered by the "Portal ofIndustrialHeritage", which presents the "Route ofIndustrialHeritage in the Ruhr Area" and [...] with an Impact" illustrates the transformation of industrialized regions in Europe and gives an impression of the diversity of Europe's industrialheritage. This is realized on information boards, which [...] interesting industrialheritage sites in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the industrial properties on UNESCO's World Heritage List and all ERIH Anchor Points in Europe. A mobile version of the presentation
ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF POLAND Listen Industrialisation within the territory of today’s Poland was extremely disparate as repeated partitioning of this nation occurred during the decisive 150 years [...] Congress of 1815 and subject to the Czar of Russia. As in many European nations, population growth generated a large reservoir of labour here. However, even after the changes following the liberation of the [...] the deposits of zinc ore around Katowice were quite significant. During the 19th century the output of zinc from Upper Silesia exceeded that of all other European regions. Even the amount of sulphuric acid
