in Italy, which - despite recession and mass dismissals - remained in business after the Second World War, producing mainly sugar, locomotives and dockside cranes. Today, the 26-hectare industrial site

Rathenau established the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) in 1887. After the Second World War, the same neighbourhood became the largest inner-city industrial district in the GDR. In 2009, the

Nuremberg Declaration on German Industrial Heritage, and one year later, at ERIH Anchor Point Zollverein World Heritage Site , they passed a resolution to formally establish the federal association, which was [...] Courtesy LWL / Philipp Harms From left to right: Thies Schröder (Managing Director of Ferropolis Ltd., 2nd Chairman), Constanze Roth (INNOVENT e.V. / Head of the Vogtland Pioneers Alliance, Member), Prof. [...] President and Director LVR Industrial Museum, Member), Jürgen K. Enninger (Head of Culture Dept., World Heritage and Sport, City of Augsburg, Member).

Before World War I, the "Elektropolis Berlin" was considered emblematic of a modern, hyper-connected city. After World War II, the long-term "deep sleep" of many industries helped preserve the often iconic

one of the oldest oil regions in the world. Oil, and later gas, was first extracted here in the 19th century. However, it was not until after the Second World War that the oil industry really took off

Europe’s great mountain passes, and in 1998 became the first transport route to be designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. There is a monument on a rocky slope near Semmering station to Karl Ritter von Ghega [...] visitors. The most imposing of the hotels is the Sudbahnhotel-Semmering on the slope of Kartnerhogel, 2 km north of Semmering station.

the largest Citroën collection in the world. It extends from the Type ‘A’s after the First World War to recent vehicles and includes many examples of the influential 2CV and DS ranges. The cars are arranged

Saint-Martin-d'Aubigny. Due to competition from other building materials and the start of the Second World War, the brickworks closed in 1939. It was saved from demolition and conservation began for it to open [...] sheds and the large circular kiln inside a cover building with a tall chimney. A brickworks was opened 2km away at Périers in 1872. When the clay there ran out, the processes were gradually relocated between

and vegetables were cultivated, and the town became known as the ‘flower city’. During the Second World War there was a forced labour camp in the area whose inmates were forced to labour in the peat workings

airships by the German navy at Nordholz in 1912. It was used heavily by aircraft during the Second World War. The start of a collection of historical objects began here in 1967 but the initiative to create [...] Exhibitions continue indoors with five main themes: the technology and history of airships, airships at war, civil airships, the history of the base at Nordholz and finally naval aviation.

grandson of the company founder, Joseph Opinel, assembled the Opinel pocket knife. During the First World War the production moved to a former tannery in Cognin near Chambéry, followed by the relocation to

people and material between the two locations. In the First World War, the tunnel was used for ammunition production, and in the Second World War, the employees found shelter during air raids. The AEG site