Heritage (ERIH) is co-created by post-industrial sites from 28 European countries. The route includes over 2,300 sites, and the association itself has over 400 members. The most important sites on the ERIH route
Among the region's most striking landmarks is the Oberhausen Gasometer . This unique cultural venue with its spectacular exhibitions reveals its full atmosphere to visitors who let the glass panorama
While the term "Ruhr area" was not coined until the 1930s, industrial pioneers such as Franz Haniel, Mathias Stinnes, Friedrich Krupp and Friedrich Harkort had collieries and blast furnaces popping up
framework agreements such as the European Green Deal or the Cultural Heritage Green Paper call for CO2 neutrality by 2050 (already 50% by 2030). There are also targets, benchmarks, demands and concepts at
region, is located at the transition of the Pyrenees into the Cantabrian Mountains and has more than 2.2 million inhabitants. Its prosperity owes much to industrialisation, which began in the 1840s with iron
previously undetected zinc deposits. Will this be the beginning of a new mining chapter? ERIH article in IK 2.23 (German): "Ein sprödes Metall verändert die Welt. Standorte der Zinkindustrie in Europa" (pdf)
The programme is vast: exhibitions, attractions for families and children, fireworks, special guided tours, cabaret & comedy, light & laser, street theatre & performance as well as hands-on activities
welcome. Eligible are all bachelor, master or doctoral/PhD students who have completed at least their 2nd semester and who are enrolled at a university. The SummerSchool is organised by ERIH, the Berlin Centre
A key component of the Shine4Future project is to engage young people and encourage them to discover industrial heritage sites as places to visit or even work. Only this can ensure successful generati
what this could potentially mean for other sites. Call for Papers (pdf download) Submissions (max. 2,000 characters) should be sent to conference@erih.net by 15 July 2025 at the latest . The ERIH board
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.
One focus of the project activities will be the generational change in industrial heritage, which is already in full swing: many of the people who have been involved in this field since the beginning
The very fact that the ERIH website presents more than 2,000 industrial monuments and museums in all European countries is proof of the lasting impact of 200 years of Industrial Revolution. Accordingly
survive. Together with Styal Village it represents an unrivalled example of an early factory colony. 2. An Extensive Archive A varied collection of objects, pictures and ocuments provide evidence about the
Atlantic convoys. Up to 10,000 civilian forced labourers worked on the construction. Approximately 2,000 died as a result of the physically strenuous work, inadequate care and inhumane living conditions
opened. The textile museum is on the most important museum of this kind in Italy. Covering an area of 2,400 square metres, the Textile Museum displays an extensive range of textiles, historic machinery and
fully ready as a museum in 2000. The total floor area of the museum centre is approximately 14,000 m2, half of which is devoted to exhibition facilities and premises open to the public. Vapriikki is housed
tutorials. Among the computers are awe-inspiring supercomputers from the 1980s and 1990s, the Cray-2 (of which only 29 were built) and the IBM Blue Gene. The Swiss computer industry is well represented
one by Dansk Automobilefabrik and one by Renault. They are laid out in a large building of 4,000m 2 . The site also houses a toy museum, a collection of model aircraft and the Frasses and Marianne Musikmuseum
