The Berlin Center for Industrial Culture (bzi) is a joint institution of the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and the German Technical Museum Foundation Berlin. BZI networks actors of industrial culture [...] culture in Berlin, Brandenburg and the Federal Republic, researches Berlin's industrial heritage, develops tourist attractions, designs educational formats for young and old, advises and moderates questions

regulated shipping traffic. He also levies a Berlin customs duty. The city's location between the Oder and the Elbe river favours lively traffic on the waterways. Berlin becomes a trading city. At the beginning [...] But companies also appreciate a production location on Berlin's rivers and canals. Materials and finished products are shipped by the ton on Berlin's waterways. An exhibition on the custom barge "Renate [...] The Fischerinsel in Berlin-Mitte offers familiar views of the TV tower and the Nikolai district. However, if your gaze wanders to the Spree, you will notice historic ships, steam tugs and excursion boats

it was transformed into a nursing home and shelter for the homeless. After the Berlin blockade in 1948 that left West Berlin completely isolated, the city's Senate stored emergency supplies of hygiene articles [...] e. Between 1963 and 1988, the so-called "Senate reserves" were stored here. The Berlin Underground Assiciation (Berliner Unterwelten e.V.) offers guided tours of the Fichtebunker historical warehouse to [...] From the outside, Berlin's last preserved gasometer made of stone seems almost unchanged. But a guided tour of the interior of the colossus in Fichtestraße reveals an insight into 130 years of the city's

The plant was taken over in 1920 by the „Berliner Städtische Elektrizitätswerke Aktien-Gesellschaft“ (BEWAG), resulting from the establishment of Greater Berlin. The division of the city following World [...] How does electricity get into the socket? The Energy Museum in Berlin does not only vividly illustrate how electricity is generated and distributed, but it also traces the development of communication [...] it out for himself. The museum is part of a complex of buildings that is one of the best places in Berlin to study the rich history of public power supply. At the beginning of the last century Steglitz was

In Berlin, rubbish bins, garbage trucks and people wearing orange working clothes are ubiquitous. The municipal waste disposal company (Berliner Stadtreinigung BSR) dominates the urban landscape like no [...] no other institution. For almost 100 years, the Berlin refuse collection service has been ensuring clean streets, waste disposal and recycling. As far back as the 18th century, caretakers called "Stra [...] exhibited. With the help of documents, drawings and photos, the association researches the history of Berlin refuse collection and street cleaning. Changing exhibitions in the listed former BSR main workshop

Every day about two million passengers squeeze into Berlin's buses and trains. But how did the subway and tram lines emerge as an important part of public transport more than 140 years ago? In the historic [...] historic control center at the Olympia Stadium subway station, the Berlin Underground Museum provides a glimpse of the history, progress, and current operations of the subway system. In 1881, Siemens developed [...] developed the world's first electric tram and launched it in Lichterfelde, a suburb of Berlin at the time. "The Electric" soon became an integral part of the city. As the population grew rapidly at the end

the protection of the historic buildings. Guided by the slogan "Berlin under steam", the historic trains regularly go on round trips in Berlin and longer tours to more distant destinations. [...] At the end of the 19th century, Berlin grew into an industrial city. Apart from waterways, goods were mainly transported by rail. With the development of the railway network, passenger traffic also became [...] new technologies. Even before the railway depot was shut down by Deutsche Bahn, the Dampflokfreunde Berlin association used the site for its collection of historic locomotives. The volunteers are not only

before embarking on a commercial education in Berlin, which led him towards engineering. He worked on the assembly of steam engines at F A Egell`s Neue Berliner Eisengiesserei near the Oranienburger Tor, [...] ironwork for the domes of the Nicolai church in Potsdam and the Stadtschloss in Berlin. He set up a second works at Berlin-Moabit in 1847, and new machine shops and a foundry in Kirchstrase in 1850, by [...] Robert Stephenson in England, which stimulated orders. His 24th locomotive was exhibited at a fair in Berlin in 1844, and his 100th was completed two years later. He also manufactured water pumps, and structural

Prussian King Frederick the Great. He founded the Royal Porcelain Manufacture Berlin (Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur Berlin) in 1763 in order to always have access to best quality products. Seven kings [...] products still being handcrafted at at the company's historic location. KPM, Berlin's oldest operating craft business, is based in Berlin-Charlottenburg. The exhibition shows traditional pieces from four centuries

to industrial monuments in Berlin wrap up the programme. The Summer School is a programme of ERIH in cooperation with the Berlin Centre for Industrial Heritage and the Berlin University of Applied Sciences

The Friedrichshagen Waterworks in Berlin was considered the largest and most modern of its kind in Europe when it was completed in 1888. The pumping houses resemble palaces with their principal elevations [...] rotated by an electric motor. The waterworks is now a museum that tells the complex story of how Berlin has been supplied with water over the centuries, showing how the Friedrichshagen works came to be [...] be built, and how it was affected by the separation of the water supply to East and West Berlin after the division of the city in 1949. One section entitled ‘From carts to sewage treatment works’, shows

Tempelhof Airport was a symbol of hope and freedom for many West Berliners, since civil air traffic was the only way to travel directly from West Berlin to Germany. In 2008, aviation was eventually suspended. Guided [...] fly spans many millennia of human history. At the end of the 19th century, the Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin provided courageous aviation pioneers with a popular area for testing new types of aircraft. In 1909 [...] 1945 and subsequently transferred it to the US Air Force. From 1948 to 49, the Soviet Union cut West Berlin off from water and land supply routes, forcing the Allies to implement an airlift to bridge the supply

by the "Raisin Bomber" on its roof, a reminder of the Berlin Airlift era - is one of the largest museums of its kind in Europe and interlinks Berlin's rapid technological and industrial history with its [...] Fichtebunker" , Berlin's last surviving gasometer built of stone for so-called coal gas. Sites such as Pfefferberg , which owes its name to the Bavarian master brewer Joseph Pfeffer, reflect Berlin's close r [...] labour, based on large-scale criminal enslavement and racist violence. The documentation centre in Berlin-Schöneweide is the only institution of its kind in an almost completely preserved forced labour camp

lay in East Berlin. The museum building was restored in a makeshift fashion by the DDR government in 1958, and displays were opened to the public. A parallel museum in West Berlin, the Berliner Post- und [...] The museum of communications in Berlin claims to be Europe’s oldest postal museum. The collection was established in 1872 by the postmaster of imperial Germany, Heinrich von Stephan (1831-97), who, in

Exkursionen zu industriekulturellen Stätten in Berlin. Die "European Industrial Heritage Summer School" ist ein gemeinsames Programm von ERIH, dem Berliner Zentrum für Industriekultur (bzi) und der Hochschule [...] Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin (HTW Berlin). Dank eines großzügigen Stipendiums von ERIH konnten die Teilnahmegebühren für die Studierenden niedrig gehalten werden. ERIH lädt die Teilnehmerinnen [...] Heimatland - vorzugsweise einen ERIH-Standort - und stellten diese während ihres Aufenthaltes in Berlin ihren Kommilitonen vor. Die erste Woche der Summer School konzentrierte sich auf den Erwerb von Wissen

necessary steam. Berlin’s industrialisation, the rapid increase in population which accompanied it and new discoveries in the field of medicine led to a veritable boom in new hospitals in Berlin and surrounding [...] opened in 1893 in the formerly independent parish of Lichtenberg, was built according to the plans of Berlin’s director of town planning, Hermann Blankenstein. A form of self-sufficient energy supply was needed [...] via the boiler house. Even power was self-generated until the parish was incorporated into Greater Berlin in 1920 and connected to the municipal energy grid. Along with the technical exhibition about the

Baruth, south of Berlin, and through his work in glass technology did much to transform many aspects of 20th century life. At the age of 15 he went to work for Siemens & Halske in Berlin, and from 1890 gained [...] gained experience in the United States, before returning to Berlin to form R Burger AG in 1894, which manufactured thermometers, laboratory vessels and medical equipment. In 1901, in collaboration with

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SummerSchool is organised by ERIH, the Berlin Centre for Industrial Heritage and the Department of Culture and Design at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (HTW Berlin). The application portal is open

sites in Berlin. The 'European Industrial Heritage Summer School' is a joint program of ERIH, the Berlin Centre for Industrial Heritage (bzi) and the University of Applied Sciences Berlin (HTW Berlin). Thanks [...] country – preferably an ERIH site – which they present to their fellow students during their stay in Berlin. The first week of the Summer School focuses on acquiring knowledge about industrial heritage in [...] and a concept for telling the heritage of the former AEG Behrens-Ufer areal in the south-east of Berlin. A group of students developed a concept for “Sounds of Industry: Industrial Heritage x Club Culture”