POINTS Industrial History of 51 countries HISTORY OF 19 INDUSTRIAL BRANCHES OVER 300 BIOGRAPHIES YOUR GUIDE TO EUROPE'S INDUSTRIALHERITAGE Listen ERIH , the EUROPEAN ROUTE OF INDUSTRIALHERITAGE , your [...] YouTube: 'IndustrialHeritage in Ukraine' News Listen 22-12-2025 | Industrial Culture 2.25: Exclusive second edition for ERIH members Northern Europe in Focus: The new English edition of “Industrial Culture” [...] Kundura La Louvière (Belgium), Museum of Mining and Sustainable Development World Heritage Site EXPLORE EUROPE'S INDUSTRIALHERITAGE WITH ERIH Please activate video Cookies in order to watch this video open cookie
along the milestones of European industrial history. What is ERIH ? ERIH is the European Route of IndustrialHeritage, a network of the most important industrialheritage sites in Europe. It is the common [...] 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 European Route of IndustrialHeritage (ERIH) is doing [...] the complete range of European industrial history. After that, they tell tourists what they can see at a local level. Visitors of all ages can relive their industrialheritage in the form of attractive guided
IMPRINT Listen Copyright and legal responsibility ERIH - European Route of IndustrialHeritage e.V. Dr Walter Hauser, President ERIH e.V. Office ERIH e.V. Christiane Baum Am Striebruch 42 | 40668 Meerbusch [...] United Kingdom (essay "Industrial Revolution", sites of European Theme Routes, biographies) Lorenz Töpperwien , Cologne, Germany (Achor Points, Regional Routes "Ruhrgebiet" and "Industrial Valleys", translations [...] Dokumentes in ihrem Inhalt und ihrer Gültigkeit davon unberührt. ['ERIH' - 'European Route of IndustrialHeritage' ® is registered as European Union Trademark] Since 2019 ERIH is certified as a "Cultural Route
cotton had begun. Today the Cromford Mill is a recognised World Heritage Site. The same goes for all the other remaining early industrial factories in the valley. Their buildings and machines bear witness [...] and factories and especially with the people who worked in the factories. The major burden of the Industrial Revolution – here and elsewhere – rested on their shoulders.
housed on the site of a disused generating station, is an impressive presentation of the city’s industrialheritage. Here you can see one of the most powerful steam engines in the world. Alongside it stands
as an industrial dinosaur. It extends over an area of 600,000 square metres and exemplifies the combined power of more than 100 years of iron and steel manufacturing. It was the first industrial monument [...] monument to be inscribed into the United Nations list of World Cultural Heritage Sites. No wonder it is packed with visitors. Here expert guides will take you on a tour through the labyrinths of blast furnaces [...] furnace was once charged with coke and ore, you can get the best view of the mill and the surrounding industrial landscape of the Saar valley. The many different artistic events presented at the Völklinger Hütte
and conveyor belts determined the lives of 5,000 miners and their families? The "Portal of IndustrialHeritage" translates this history to the entire Ruhr district: multimedia stations effectively showcase [...] Zollverein is the meeting place for past, present and future. The past is explored by the "Heritage Trail", bringing to life the history and technology of what was once Europe's largest coal mine. What [...] transformation in the Ruhrgebiet. In 2001 the site was inscribed into the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.
high technology stretching over more than six square kilometres. This is what the future of industrialheritage looks like. In the Chemical Industry Estate in Marl, on the northern edge of the Ruhrgebiet
a wealth of heritage that it is easy to overlook the variety of industrial buildings from all periods and particularly the nineteenth century that lie within the city centre. The industrial economy of Norwich [...] block at Stewarts & Patteson´s Pockthorpe Brewery can still be admired, though much important industrialheritage has been lost. Casualties include the famous Rowntrees Chocolate factory and redevelopment [...] collection of industrial and social memories, is itself housed in a former shoe factory and one-time prison. The building encapsulates the contradictions of this medieval and later industrial city. Make a
modern mining and conveying techniques during a trip on the colliery railway. A fine example of industrial architecture awaits visitors on the surface; the monumental processing plant designed by the architects [...] by vivid sound effects of everyday working conditions. The mine was inscribed as a World Cultural Heritage site in 1992 – along with the former Imperial Town of Goslar.
world’s largest copper mine and today the heart of a unique historic industrial landscape, which was designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. A path meanders around the mine and passes some cabins, which
acquired the colliery in 1810. Today, Grand Hornu is a true gem of European industrialheritage as well as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a major attraction for visitors from all over the world thanks to
was formally constituted in 1997. Its objectives are to promote research into the industrial and ecological heritage of the region, and to promote its interpretation, both to those who live there and
for the first time. Most surprising for visitors: the Fagus Factory, which was added to the world heritage list in 2011, is still in function. So it's not only history the exhibition explores but also a [...] displays, 3D visualisation, videos and a large number of exhibits illustrate past and present of the industrial plant. This includes the innovative architecture of the original buildings dating back to the years
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AZERBAIJAN The industrial history of Azerbaijan is largely a history of oil. Iron, copper and other ores also lie in the country's soil, but mining remained co [...] in glass manufacture ... more BELGIUM The industrial age of the European continent began in Belgium, where conditions were similarly good to those in England: coal had been mined in the valleys of the [...] Although Bosnia-Herzegovina is a land of fertile fields and significant natural resources, its industrial development did not commence until very late. As in other countries ... more DENMARK Not many nations
ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF BELGIUM Listen The industrial age of the European continent began in Belgium, where conditions were similarly good to those in England: coal had been mined in the valleys of [...] Charleroi and Namur introduced steam-powered pumps which enabled greater depths to be explored and industrial-scale coal mining began before the turn of the century. The economy in Flanders and Wallonia received [...] cotton spinning machine: the entrepreneur Lievens Bauwens had smuggled in a "spinning jenny" from England in 1798 and copied it. With a new canal to Terneuzen in the Scheldt estuary, the city had a direct
Robert Owen was one of the most influential figures of the Industrial Revolution, a successful and philanthropic factory owner, a pioneer of co-operation and a thinker who inspired socialist movements [...] followers met in numerous Owenite halls in the 1830s and 40s. The subsequent co-operative movement in England and in other European countries acknowledged him as a source of inspiration.
18th century industrial operations. Jan Verbruggen played an important role in transmitting technology from the state-owned concerns of the ancien regime to the entrepreneurs of the Industrial Revolution [...] foundryman through whom important machine tool techniques were transmitted from continental Europe to England where they profoundly influenced the development of the steam engine. Verbruggen was born in Enkhuizen [...] the foundry which led to a decade of controversy that concluded when, with his son, he migrated to England to work at the Woolwich arsenal in 1770. He completely reorganised the cannon foundry in the next
that was inherited by Friedrich Krupp (1787-1826). In 1811, when supplies of crucible steel from England were interrupted by Napoleon`s continental system, he established a steel foundry in Essen, although [...] almost ceased by the time of his death. The development of this small concern into the largest industrial company in Europe was due largely to his son, Alfred Krupp. When the building of main line railways [...] comprised 50% of the output of his company, which, with 20,200 employees was claimed to be the largest industrial concern in the world. Krupp gained a reputation as a benign employer. The company`s workers settlements
