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". Both these
It focuses on close interactions between the two neighbouring regions. This becomes evident in the St. Anthony ironworks in Oberhausen, built in 1758, which is considered the cradle of the coal and st
August Thyssen was one of the principal entrepreneurs in the iron and steel industry of the Ruhrgebiet, whose influence spread throughout Europe. He was born in the mining town of Eschweiler near Aachen [...] Thyssen sought to expand the company in other countries and by the acquisition of other firms in the Ruhrgebiet. The company began to produce pipes for gas mains, to roll sheet iron, and to operated a galvanizing
and the Saar region: other isolated works arose in the countryside, like those in Wetter in the Ruhrgebiet and Rasselstein, near Neuwied. But the German economy only really began to get moving in 1834 with [...] Customs Union. Within the space of a few decades a close-knit industrial topography sprang up in the Ruhrgebiet, dominated by pithead towers, blast furnaces and working-class housing settlements. In 1828 a Scotsman [...] to use iron ore areas like Lorraine, for example; but the region which profited the most was the Ruhrgebiet. Here the steelworks were able to produce huge amounts of wire, pipes, and construction steel -
Luxemburg came from Germany. On the other hand the iron and steel produced here was sent to the Ruhrgebiet for further processing. The dependency on Germany was also clear from the fact that, at the start
productive heavy industries developed in the mining regions of upper Silesia, in the Saarland and the Ruhrgebiet. At the same time the building of the railways gave a decisive boost to expanding steel production
Mulvany was an Irish surveyor and entrepreneur who prospered in the Ruhrgebiet, and did much to transfer British mining technology to Germany. He was born in Dublin, brother to William Thomas Mulvaney [...] Britain into his collieries, and was particularly successful in finding new markets for coal from the Ruhrgebiet, in part by securing the improvement of transport facilities. At Gelsenkirchen he built some miners`
complete blast furnace site in Germany. This was what an industrial plant looked like before the Ruhrgebiet stepped in to create an industrial landscape par excellence. The blast furnace is 10 metres high [...] further renovations. But all this was in vain. The technology was hopeless behind the times. In the Ruhrgebiet furnaces had long started using coke whose heating qualities were infinitely superior to that of [...] as a direct link between the ore reserves in the Siegerland region and the blast furnaces in the Ruhrgebiet. The Luisenhütte gradually receded into the sidelines, closed down in 1864 and has remained unaltered
viewing platform from where there is a panoramic view of the surrounding industrial landscape of the Ruhrgebiet including an additional attraction right next door: the Centro, one of the largest shopping malls
fresh impulse to industry in the Ruhrgebiet. It’s working. Anyone who visits the Chemical Industry Estate in Marl will come away with a completely new idea of the Ruhrgebiet. [...] industrial heritage looks like. In the Chemical Industry Estate in Marl, on the northern edge of the Ruhrgebiet, it is already part of the present. One of Europe’s largest chemical sites is booming here on the [...] mind-boggling view over the length and breadth of this gigantic estate, including the town of Marl, the Ruhrgebiet and the southern areas of Munsterland. The Chemical Industry Estate in Marl has a long history
of high-power industrialisation and simultaneously a symbol of structural transformation in the Ruhrgebiet. In 2001 the site was inscribed into the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.
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". Both these
