areas had taught people the vital importance of water supplies for fire-fighting. Sites of the Theme Route [...] ON THE HISTORY OF WATER MANAGEMENT Listen No European country has as close a relationship to water than the Netherlands. For this reason water construction technology developed here first. At the start

created anew every year. The music, an electronic dance or hip-hop song inspired by Beethoven's European anthem "Ode to Joy", is recomposed for each festival edition as well. Livestream and social media

will be the European Capital of Culture. One focus of the planned events in the Capital of Culture year will be industrial culture. Among other things, there will be industrial culture themed tours in museums [...] salt trade. The Traunsee-Almtal Tourism Association, a region in the Salzkammergut, has taken up the theme of industrial culture as it is a clear unique selling point for the region. From 2021, the "Long Night

1914 the complete Ford factory in Detroit was operating on the assembly line system. Sites of the Theme Route [...] of the birthplaces of the industrial age, the British textile area Lancashire; from then on, the route supplied the booming city of Manchester with coal. Other canals followed quickly, enabling coal to

The Old Town in Arhus, the principal city of Jutland, is unusual amongst European open air museums in that it consists largely of urban buildings rather than farmsteads that have been removed from their [...] er. There are displays illustrating the history of clocks, toys, silverware and pottery, and the theme of textile production can be followed throughout the museum. The Old Town is one of the most popular

transport routes. Since heavy industry boomed in the Ruhr area, transit trade across the Rhine had increased massively. To enable new, ever larger steamships serving the lucrative transatlantic route to use [...] plantations also boomed on the islands. Java and Sumatra were among the most profitable colonies under European rule until the 20th century. What role these revenues played as the technologies of the industrial

cartoon figure composed of tyres, otherwise known as the Michelin man. Six galleries based on the theme of mobility, portray the past, present and future of the company and its products. It includes exciting [...] forgotten include the railcars with pneumatic tyres with which the company was involved in several European countries in the 1930s. Due attention is paid to Michelin’s role in producing maps and guides to

between 1939 and 1940. Britannia Rail Bridge Robert Stephenson chose to build his magnificent Egyptian themed, tubular rail bridge at the second narrowest point on the Menai Strait. Begun in 1846, the bridge [...] tier steel arch truss design carrying not only the railway from London to Holyhead but also a major European roadway, linking Continental Europe to Ireland. The full history of the bridges and several artefacts

Visitors are invited to discover the varied aspects of the industrial monument by following several theme routes. The path of iron starts at the ore and coal bunkers, takes the elevator straight up the oldest

The theme of this year's edition of the festival is "Art (in) Industry". Indeed, INDUSTIRADA draws many exciting connections between the two sectors. One of the outstanding architectural achievements of

Invention of Textile The Heritage of the Textile Industry. Thematic Study for TICCIH Sites of the Theme Route [...] plantations in the south of the USA, picked by enslaved people forcibly transported from Africa by European traders. The first textile mill, however, was a silk twisting mill. The five-storey building in

Technology transfer Brochure "European Industrial Heritage" About ERIH Route System Anchor Points: Selection Criteria and Procedure Regional Routes European Theme Routes ERIH Association ERIH Membership [...] Europe" ERIH Industrial Heritage Barometer Exchange programme "Twinning of Sites" European Academy of Industrial Heritage European Industrial Heritage Summer School Succession Planning and Knowledge Transfer [...] Home I want to go there! How it started The Industrial Revolution in Europe Industrial History of European Countries Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria

sustainability. To this end, ERIH is in constant dialogue with the Network of European Museum Organisations (NEMO) and the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe. Further cooperation is being sought. ERIH members [...] tables is growing, as the increasing number of members indicates. Other ERIH activities like the “European Industrial Heritage Summer School” and different research projects are aimed at collaborating with

ice-skating and penny-slot machines; all of them just a few metres above the waves. Sites of the Theme Route [...] and the "Universum" in Berlin, built by the famous architect, Erich Mendelsohn. Pleasure parks in European capitals have an even longer tradition. They flourished in the 19th century. In London, "Vauxhall

is the first and only monument in the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate to be part of the European Route of Industrial Heritage: "We are proud that Sayner Hütte has joined the ranks of ERIH World Heritage

is founder and member of the European Mining Routes of Santa Barbara Federation, a network dedicated to promoting mining heritage across Europe. The Federation promotes routes that explore ancient mining [...] Trail, a hiking, historical, cultural and landscape itinerary of 500 km divided into 30 stages. The route runs along the mining paths walked by miners during the great mining epic. Walking along this Trail [...] tourism methods such as hiking, cycling, or horseback riding. These itineraries, located in various European mining regions, provide a unique opportunity to discover the rich industrial mining heritage in

traditionally was, only now in a more energy efficient, highly automated process. Sites of the Theme Route

the European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH) is doing. Come with us on an exciting journey of discovery along the milestones of European industrial history. What is ERIH ? ERIH is the European Route [...] simultaneously starting points for a variety of regional routes. Regionale Routes Each region has its own speciality. In this respect European industrial heritage is just like food. Its strength lies in [...] a number of less significant industrial monuments - the small cogs in the large machine. European Theme Routes Such as "The treasures of the Earth": what, where, when and how were they extracted from the

ERIH and it's (virtual) route system of Anchor Points, Regional Routes and European Theme Routes: Anchor Points: Selection Criteria and Procedure Regional Routes European Theme Routes [...] of sites spread across Europe. It just needs to be brought back to life - and that is what the European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH) is doing. Join us on an exciting journey of discovery through the [...] ERIH'S ROUTE SYSTEM: YOUR GUIDE TO EUROPE'S INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE Listen Where was the first factory in the world? Where was the biggest steam engine built? And where was the most modern colliery of its

The River Rhine has been the most important European trade artery during the industrial period. It is now a commercial navigation between Rotterdam and Basle. Its course through the Netherlands has been [...] Koln-Dusseldorfer Rheinschiffart company established a passenger service which proved popular as a route to Switzerland. The river was notable for the huge floats of timber that passed from its upper reaches