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Regional Routes link landscapes and sites which have left their mark on European industrial history. Germany's Ruhrgebiet, for example. Or South Wales, a key region in the "world's first industrial nation"

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all about cars - and not common ones at all! A Horch 303 fire engine from 1927, for instance, with Germany's first standard eight-cylinder unit under the bright red bonnet. Or a DKW F 1 built in 1931, whose

The largest saltworks in Germany is located in Bavaria, at Bad Reichenhall on the Austrian border, 16 km south-west of Salzburg. The record of working salt in the area goes back to the year 682 ad, and

For many centuries Halle was one of the principal salt-producing cities in Germany. The city’s name is an ancient Indo-Germanic word for salt, and the first documentary reference to the brine springs in

operation since April 1900 – more than 70 years – linking the rural area of Selkant in the far west of Germany with the region around Aachen. The railway transported both passengers and goods. In Alsdorf the

The Völklinger Hütte (ironworks) in Germany’s Saarland, which was shut down in 1986, can be justifiably described as an industrial dinosaur. It extends over an area of 600,000 square metres and exemplifies

its migrant brick makers. Every year they would leave their homes to offer their services all over Germany, leaving their families behind to look after themselves. Life here was not at all easy. You can see

Waterways Museum was born. And in 1998 the historic baths celebrated a brilliant new opening – as Germany’s most complete collection of exhibits on inland waterways.

Dortmund. These four simple letters conceal one of the largest, most innovative and exciting museums in Germany. Visitors walk through the various sections of the museum as if they are travelling in a time machine

Dahlhausen was opened in 1977 and since then has grown continually. It is generally acknowledged to be Germany’s largest private collection of historical railway vehicles.

gallery and the furnace pond. The Luisenhütte is the oldest remaining complete blast furnace site in Germany. This was what an industrial plant looked like before the Ruhrgebiet stepped in to create an industrial

past and present. Inside you can see almost everything to do with the history of tool making in Germany and central Europe from a stone-age hand axe to computer-controlled machines. The star exhibits are [...] today? In helping to provide the answers the museum also includes other centres of tool making in Germany, and deals with the development of marketing and trade. The tools made in Remscheid were sold overseas

clean enough. Not like the old days when it gave rise to one of the oldest industrial regions in Germany. How the economic, social and cultural upheavals between 1750 and 1850 in the Wuppertal region all

below with ease. Today the 107 metre high Mungsten viaduct is still the highest railway bridge in Germany. And this, despite the fact that it is now over 100 years old. On 22nd March 1897 thousands of curious

Göttelborn was always right up to date in technical matters and in 1972 it was one of the top pits in Germany. In 1990 400 million Deutschmarks were invested in shaft number four (it was around 1200 metres deep)

difficult to believe that only a few years ago this was the centre of the brown coal industry in central Germany. At its high point 820 miners of both sexes were employed on the open-cast mining site at Golpa-Nord

World War, and, after observing the passage of trains carrying refugees from Czechoslovakia to West Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, crowds demonstrated in the streets calling for similar

fitters’ and joiners’ workshops dating back to 1900 and a brickworks from the time of the DDR (East Germany). Not forgetting the field railway museum, of course. There is a huge adventure playground for children