called the Pfander, is one of many in the Alps. Its unique feature is that there is a museum at the lower station which explains the technology used, and shows how the cable car system fits into the development [...] the Bodensee (Lake Constance). The cable cars began operation in 1927 and carry visitors from the lower station, 419 m above sea level, to the summit at 1022 m above sea level. The trip takes six minutes [...] Vienna, and can carry up to 80 passengers. The museum is located in a range of new buildings at the lower station constructed in 1994-95.

established in Vienna in 1843, and subsequently set up a factory around a manor house at Weitra in Lower Austria, 8 km south-east of Gmund. At its peak in the early 20th century the factory employed 500 [...] l Textilstrasse, a route that links together all the historical textile sites and collections in Lower Austria.

the time when Wałbrzych (formerly called Waldenburg) used to rank first among the mining works in Lower Silesia. The title of the multicultural theme park, "Old Mine", goes back to the former "Julia" coal [...] elaborately restored buildings house, amongst others, a multimedia museum illustrating the history of the Lower Silesian coal industry. The exhibits feature mining equipment and machines as well as the living

quarrying sites, including a 137 m inclined paved way along which large blocks were slid down to lower levels from which they could be transported to Athens and other cities.

accommodated 2500 people and there were stables for the menagerie at the rear. The mechanisms for lowering the ring and filling it with water remain intact. The Hippodrome is still a venue for circus and

better adapted to the landscape (but thus has 102 curves) and the construction costs were one third lower. In 1997, freight traffic was discontinued for economic reasons. In 2003, the 1st Steam Narrow Gauge

the middle to form a protective canopy. It is hard to believe that this smart area of Brieske in Lower Lusatia started out as a “workers’ colony”, whose inhabitants earned a living in the adjacent Marga [...] impoverishment of the industrial conurbations. It was a highly ambitious project, all the more so as Lower Lusatia was known as the “dust bowl” of Brandenburg at that time and was correspondingly sparsely

The tobacco plant was once commonly grown on the lower slopes of the mountains of Andorra, and its leaves were processed locally and made into products for smoking. This museum occupies the multi-storey

documenting, preserving and communicating the industrial history of the town of Lohne and its region in Lower Saxony. The present museum opened in 2000 to bring together existing collections. Some of the local

ferro-concrete aqueduct, 375 m long and 24 m wide that was completed in 1914. Vessels are raised and lowered the 13 m between the two waterways are by locks. The aqueduct was restored after damage by bombing

to the mining gallery (a walk of 180 m) while the second includes an additional tour of 500 m at a lower level.

of Leipzig. His father ran a business selling wool. While he was still a child the family moved to Lower Austria and finally to Vienna. When he was 18 he ran away to the United States, where he spent two [...] regional iron and steel cartel. The following year, he bought the St Egydi iron and steel company in Lower Austria. He then brought together the scythe-making industry of Upper Styria as the Vereinigte Sensenwerke

1945, but were subsequently re-built. In 1961 the museum was taken over by the land government of Lower Saxony. Heinrich Ottenjann was succeeded as director of the museum by his son Helmut Ottenjann (1931-2010) [...] The original object of the museum was to display the peasant house types of the western part of Lower Saxony (the Oldenburger Munsterland), and to demonstrate traditional crafts. The museum extends over

Wiesmoor is a town in Lower Saxony that now has a population of more than 30,000. It lies 30 km south-west of Wilhelmshaven, not far from the border with the Netherlands. It stands within an expanse of [...] since 1988, contains many buildings that show the new colonisation of the moorland landscapes of Lower Saxony from the mid-18th century to the early 20th century. It also shows the history of the peat

engineering feature on the canal is a lift at Scharnebeck, 10 km north-east of Luneberg, which raises and lowers boats 23 m in two counterweighted caissons that work independently. The caissons measure 100 m x

that traces the history of the brickmaker's trade, the nature of brick as a material and its use in Lower Normandy. Visitors can see the clay storage pits, the machines for preparing the clay, equipment used

The town of Kidderminster on the lower reaches of the River Stour in Worcestershire gave its name in the seventeenth century to ‘Kidderminster Stuff’, a fairly heavy woollen fabric used for curtains and

ever built, with a length of only 66m. It takes one minute to travel from Tomićeva Street in the lower town to the 13th-century landmark, the Lotrščak Tower, in the upper town or Gradec. The height is

generally operates from April to October. A small museum is housed in the former toilet building at the lower station.

consists of two independent counterweighted caissons measuring 112 m x 12 m, that are raised and lowered 73.15 m between the two levels of canal. There is a visitor centre which serves as a base for boat