Carbonia (I). Italian Centre for Coal Mining Culture Cedegolo (I). Museum of Hydroelectric Energy Chemnitz (D). Museum of Industry Telford (GB) Coalport China Museum Cornella de Llobregat (E). Water Museum

the Rhineland, Silesia and Saxony. The first German spinning machine was constructed in 1782 in Chemnitz, an early centre of mechanical engineering. Coal mining and iron processing developed mainly in

‘Oldham-style’ mills were built in India, at Enschede in the Netherlands and in Germany at Bocholt, Chemnitz and Rheine.

interests. Bernhard and his brother owned a cotton spinning mill at Harthau, now part of the city of Chemnitz. They invited Evans to bring his expertise to Saxony. He redesigned and mechanised their spinning

in 1800 in the monastery at St Gallen, he became fascinated. He studied examples of machinery at Chemnitz in Saxony and designed spinning machines of his own. In 1805 he began a cotton-spinning company

the son of a locomotive engineer, Louis Adolf Golsdorf (1837-1911), a Viennese who was trained in Chemnitz and Dresden, and became chief mechanical engineer of the Austrian Sudbahn. Karl Golsdorf was born

experience as a journeyman. At the age 23 he arrived at Chemnitz in Saxony, where he worked for Carl Gottlieb Haubold (1783-1856), founder of the Chemnitzer Maschinenbau company who is regarded as the father [...] father of mechanical engineering in the city. He was recognised as a citizen of Chemnitz from 1837 which enabled to set up his own business, a workshop repairing cotton spinning machines, with a partner and [...] parts continued until 1990. The former engineering building is now the Richard Hartmann Halle in Chemnitz, and the building that was once the company headquarters is now used by the police service. Some

At Frankeberg near Chemnitz in Saxony the Time-Work-City Experience (ZeitWerkStadt) is a museum about technical inventions that affected the life of the region – an exploration of pioneering spirit. It

Saigerhutte in Olbernhau, 32 km south-west of Chemnitz, was once a self-contained village of timber-framed buildings devoted to the processing of copper, which originated in 1836, and was the principal

Tin ore was discovered in the region of Ehrenfriedersdorf, 34 km south of Chemnitz, in the 13th century and was mined until the early 1990s. Some silver was also extracted from the local mines, as well

such as the Heros motorcycles made at Oderwitze, and the Presto cars and motorcycles produced in Chemnitz, are now largely forgotten. One of the objectives of the Museum of Saxon Road Vehicles is to perpetuate

Niederwiesa, 12 km. east of Chemnitz in the Erzgebirge, dates from soon after 1800. It was owned from 1910 by Martin Tannenhauer, who established a textile business in Chemnitz in 1883. The mill became a

are now known only to specialists. In the Saxon Commercial Vehicle Museum in Hartmannsdorf near Chemnitz, approximately 50 restored pieces from the much larger inventory of the association are shown in [...] changing exhibitions and a functional setting. The spectrum ranges from the Presto, built in 1913 in Chemnitz, to the most recent exhibit, a Robur LO 3000 from 1991.

In 1906 the Dane Jorgen Rasmussen Skafte came from Chemnitz to Zschopau and tried to develop steam-driven vehicles for the German military in 1916/17. What remained after the war were only prototypes and

Limbach-Oberfrohna, a medium-sized town, 19 km. west of Chemnitz and 36 km. east of Zwickau, is one of the historic centres of the textile industry in Saxony, and is particularly important for its role

Limestone has been extracted from the hills around Lengefeld, 23 km south-east of Chemnitz, since the 16th century. The burning of limestone to make lime ceased in the area in 1975, although cement is

The railway museum at Chemnitz is located in the Hilbersdorf locomotive depot which closed in 1992. Its buildings, now designated historical monuments, include two roundhouses with 20 m turntables, water [...] kingdom of Saxony and the former DDR. It includes two steam locomotives with particular links to Chemnitz, a 2-cylinder 2-10-0 of class 43, built by Henschel in 1926, of a type which worked from the Holbersdorf [...] Festival (Heizhaustage) every August when preserved locomotives from all over Germany are displayed at Chemnitz.

The museum of Oederan, a small village 20 km East of Chemnitz, presents the textile history of the Ore Mountains. Under the guidance of museum staff and on hand and power looms, visitors can learn various

The adjoining towns of Hohenstein and Ernstthal west of Chemnitz in Saxony were formally united in 1898. Both have been associated with the manufacture of textiles over several centuries. Mining prospered

interior designer, who at the time was still largely unknown as an architect, to build a villa in Chemnitz, which van de Velde in 1911 again extended and largely furnished himself. Van de Velde's wife Maria