way, combining various functions, we were awarded in 2021 with the prestigious title of Best of the World by National Geogrpahic Traveler in the Sustainable Development category. This is a source of great [...] Heritage (ERIH) is co-created by post-industrial sites from 28 European countries. The route includes over 2,300 sites, and the association itself has over 400 members. The most important sites on the ERIH route

colliery , the district's only World Heritage Site, doesn't really need much more to be said about it, considering its reputation as the ‘most beautiful colliery in the world’ and the flagship of an industrial [...] transition. With the completion of Central Shaft XII in 1932, one of the most efficient coal mines in the world entered the stage of the Ruhr region. Not long after its demise in 1986, today's ERIH Anchor Point

ERIH Anchor Points National Waterfront Museum in Swansea, World Heritage Big Pit National Coal Museum in Blaenavon and National Slate Museum World Heritage Site in Llanberis. A number of five-minute project [...] for Wales, presented previous efforts to implement the regional route "Valleys that changed the World". The potential of ERIH in supporting its members was the subject of the lecture "Industrial heritage [...] Heritage Park in Rhondda (Darren Macey, Managing Director). The book "Coal, Beer and Chartism: The World of Zephaniah and Joan Williams" was the subject of another five-minute lecture, given by Les James

region, is located at the transition of the Pyrenees into the Cantabrian Mountains and has more than 2.2 million inhabitants. Its prosperity owes much to industrialisation, which began in the 1840s with iron [...] d by the Bilbao Maritime Museum and – further downstream in Getxo – by the Puente Colgante , the world's first transporter bridge. Getxo is also home to the mansions of wealthy tycoons, whose history is

previously undetected zinc deposits. Will this be the beginning of a new mining chapter? ERIH article in IK 2.23 (German): "Ein sprödes Metall verändert die Welt. Standorte der Zinkindustrie in Europa" (pdf)

Special highlights this year include giant 3D mappings, a skywalk tour, a light show featuring works by world-famous artists such as Gustav Klimt and Hundertwasser, and various music acts set against a spectacular

in Italy, which - despite recession and mass dismissals - remained in business after the Second World War, producing mainly sugar, locomotives and dockside cranes. Today, the 26-hectare industrial site

Rathenau established the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) in 1887. After the Second World War, the same neighbourhood became the largest inner-city industrial district in the GDR. In 2009, the

Nuremberg Declaration on German Industrial Heritage, and one year later, at ERIH Anchor Point Zollverein World Heritage Site , they passed a resolution to formally establish the federal association, which was [...] Courtesy LWL / Philipp Harms From left to right: Thies Schröder (Managing Director of Ferropolis Ltd., 2nd Chairman), Constanze Roth (INNOVENT e.V. / Head of the Vogtland Pioneers Alliance, Member), Prof. [...] President and Director LVR Industrial Museum, Member), Jürgen K. Enninger (Head of Culture Dept., World Heritage and Sport, City of Augsburg, Member).

Before World War I, the "Elektropolis Berlin" was considered emblematic of a modern, hyper-connected city. After World War II, the long-term "deep sleep" of many industries helped preserve the often iconic

The Valentin memorial preserves the remains of a concrete bunker from the Second World War for building submarines on the river Weser near Bremen. In just twenty months – from summer 1943 to spring 1945 [...] Atlantic convoys. Up to 10,000 civilian forced labourers worked on the construction. Approximately 2,000 died as a result of the physically strenuous work, inadequate care and inhumane living conditions

opened the first of them in Burg Altena in 1912. After serving in the German army during the First World War he founded the German national organisation of hostels in 1919, and became involved in the international

opened. The textile museum is on the most important museum of this kind in Italy. Covering an area of 2,400 square metres, the Textile Museum displays an extensive range of textiles, historic machinery and [...] cloths from other Italian and European cities as well as traditional costumes from all over the world illustrate the worldwide influence of the local textile industry. A special highlight is the continuously

of a military air base in Charlais Park, served as a workshop for making balloons in the First World War, and for many years was an outpost of the air museum at le Bourget airport. It is designated as [...] (1847-1905) and Arthur Constantin Krebs (1850-1935), and is reckoned the first of its kind in the world. Its metal doors were designed by Henri de Dion (1828-78) for the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878 [...] an historical monument, and was inscribed on the French tentative list for designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2002. After falling into disrepair it is now well-maintained. The restoration work

voyage” in a historic train. And don’t miss the “Caves of the Steel Animals” which is the name of two World War II bomb shelters. Children take the mini-train to go around the site. The roundhouse of 1924 offers [...] locomotives given as loans from the European nations, thus adopting the role of ambassadors. The “World of Steam Locomotives” addresses a conglomeration of technology including a “Transparent Workshop for

like those of other Scandinavian countries, in the period of Romantic nationalism before the First World War, at a time when Finland formed part of the Russian Empire. It was founded in 1909 on Seurasaari

Skansen, was re-located to its present site around the old Fredriksberg School House after the Second World War. It consists of a collection of cottages, cabins and other rural buildings removed from their original [...] displayed in reconstructed interiors of rural dwellings, including some showing life during the Second World War. There are also reconstructions of shops from the 1920s and 30s, and a working smithy and a dairy

mechanic. He rescued many old aircraft and vehicles. He died in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, but his mother Dorothy Shuttleworth continued to develop the collection. All the aircraft are kept [...] aircraft through the first half of the 20th century. The museum’s Blériot XI biplane from 1909 is the world's oldest aeroplane that still flies. Among other aircraft are an Avro 504K from 1918 and a 1941 Spitfire

translated melodiously for the world market as “Saxon Lace”, “Plauen Lace” and “Dentelles de Saxe”. Embroidery had its heyday in the Belle Époque, the forty years before World War I, but there are still around [...] As early as 1810, commercial hand embroidery in Plauen was well-known, and in 1828 more than 2,000 people were employed in whitework embroidery. The industrialization of the craft proceeded just as quickly

de south of Berlin was the home of the Daimler-Benz aircraft engine factory. During the Second World War, the plant made engines for Luftwaffe aircraft using forced labour. The plant was bombed and after