European Route of Industrial Heritage

The European Route of Industrial Heritage, short ERIH for European Route of Industrial Heritage, is a network of the most important sites of industrial heritage in Europe. On the ERIH website than 1,000 objects or cities or regions will be presented in 43 European countries.

Organization

The ERIH in the years 2003-2008 of eleven project partners with the financial assistance of the European Union ( Interreg III B funding - Northwest Europe) been built. To continue the network after the project funding ends, an association founded in the spring of 2008, under German law, the ERIH European Route of Industrial heritage eV Meanwhile, the membership of 17 founder members in over 150 from 17 European countries increased.

ERIH goals

The aim of the project is to strengthen the interest of the common European heritage of industrialization and their legacies to imagine regions, places and objects of industrial history and to establish in the leisure and tourism sector as excursion and destination.

Anchor points are the main route

The - virtual - main route form the so-called anchor points, the industrial history important and attractive tourist sites of industrial heritage. During the initial stage, the route led through the countries of Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Czech Republic and Germany, whose industrial history is also briefly presented. Meanwhile, lead around 80 anchor points of the milestones of the industrial culture of 12 countries in Europe. Among them are:

  • The Ironbridge Gorge Museum ( UNESCO World Heritage ) in Telford, United Kingdom
  • The model village of Saltaire ( UNESCO World Heritage ) in Bradford, UK
  • The VLF transmitter Grimeton ( UNESCO World Heritage ), Sweden
  • The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, United Kingdom
  • The Gladstone Pottery Museum in Stoke -on- Trent, United Kingdom
  • The Musée du Carreau Wendel Petite- Roselle, France
  • The Heineken Experience in Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • The Dutch Textile Museum in Tilburg, The Netherlands
  • The Steam Pumping Station Cruquius in Cruquius, Netherlands
  • Écomusée the Bois -du -Luc in La Louviere, Belgium
  • The Flemish Mining Museum in Beringen, Belgium
  • The mine Blegny Blegny, Belgium
  • Of Industry and Railway Park Fond-de -Gras in Differdange, Luxembourg
  • The Norwegian hydropower and industrial city museum in Tyssedal / Odda, Norway

As well as in Germany

  • The German Watch Museum and the German Clock Road in Furtwangen, Baden- Württemberg
  • The DB Museum in Nuremberg, Bavaria
  • The National Textile and Industry Museum ( tim) in Augsburg, Bavaria
  • The Industrial Museum of Brandenburg an der Havel, Brandenburg
  • The visitor mine overburden conveyor bridge F60 lights near field, Brandenburg
  • Brickyard Park Mildeberg at Zehdenick, Brandenburg
  • The Museum of Work and its branch office in the warehouse district, Hamburg
  • The Historical- Technical Museum ( HTM) in Peenemünde, Mecklenburg- Vorpommern
  • The North German Wollkämmerei & Kammgarnspinnerei ( Nordwolle ) in Delmenhorst, Lower Saxony
  • The iron ore mine Rammelsberg ( UNESCO World Heritage ) in Goslar, Lower Saxony
  • The Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Lower Saxony
  • Zollern Mine II / IV in Dortmund, North Rhine -Westphalia
  • Landscape Park Duisburg -Nord, North Rhine -Westphalia
  • The World Heritage Site Zeche Zollverein ( UNESCO World Heritage ) in Essen, North Rhine -Westphalia
  • The Müller woolen mill in Euskirchen, North Rhine -Westphalia
  • The brick layer, North Rhine -Westphalia
  • The Gasometer Oberhausen, North Rhine -Westphalia
  • The Hendrichs Drop Forge in Solingen, North Rhine -Westphalia
  • The World Cultural Heritage Site, Saarland
  • The Industrial Museum Chemnitz, Saxony
  • The energy factory Knappenrode, Saxony
  • The August Horch Museum in Zwickau, Saxony
  • The museum Ferropolis in Graefenhainichen, Saxony -Anhalt
  • The Adventure Mine, Thuringia

European Theme Routes

Thirteen European Theme Routes show the whole variety of industrial cultural landscapes in Europe and their common roots:

  • Mining: The treasures of the Earth
  • Iron and steel: The glow of the blast furnaces
  • Textile: From fiber to factory
  • Production: goods for the world
  • Paper
  • Salt: White Gold
  • Energy: What brings us into gear
  • Transport and Communication: The tracks of the industrial revolution
  • Water: Blue Gold
  • Housing and Architecture: Life and Work
  • Service and leisure industries: After the shift
  • Industry and War
  • Industrial landscapes: A new face for the world

Regional Routes

Regional routes open up the history of regions and areas that have been particularly affected by industrialization. In Germany were nominated as regional routes of European importance:

  • Ruhr
  • Rhine -Main region
  • Northwest Germany
  • Valleys of the industry - Rhenish Slate Mountains
  • Euregio Meuse-Rhine (cross-border )
  • Saar -Lor -Lux (cross-border )
  • Lusatian Industrial Culture

Biographies

History is always made by people, which is also true for the age of the Industrial Revolution. Therefore ERIH provides a choice of 101 personalities which have shaped the European industrial history of the last 250 years, including well-known names of inventors, engineers and entrepreneurs, but also writers, social reformers and ordinary workers, as Peter Behrens, Robert Bosch, Carl Benz, Rudolf diesel, Gustave Eiffel, Friedrich Engels, Alfred Heineken, Alfred Krupp, Reinhard Mannesmann, Karl Marx, Heinrich Nestle, Alfred Nobel, Robert Owen, Gerard Philips, Walther Rathenau, Werner von Siemens, Margarete Steiff, Thomas Telford, August Thyssen, James Watt, Carl Zeiss or Émile Zola.

Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord Heineken International Museum De Cruquius German Clock Museum Zollern II/IV Colliery August Horch Museum Zwickau The Industrial Heritage Trail Rhenish Massif Saar-Lor-Lux Freddy Heineken James Watt
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