New Lanark
* This name is listed on the World Heritage List. ª The region is classified by UNESCO.
New Lanark in Scotland, located south of Lanark in the County of South Lanarkshire, is a former cotton manufacturing center on the River Clyde, which was built in 1785 by Draper David Dale as a novel industrial estate. The location was ideal, because the shooting through a narrow gorge waters of the Clyde could be used to drive.
History
New Lanark became famous by the visionary ideas of Dale's son and successor, Robert Owen (1771-1858) who led the operation from 1800 to 1825. Owen took the view that workers contribute to better social conditions for increasing the production process. He changed working and living in the cotton mill, including through the construction of a school for the children of the workers, restriction of child labor, abolition of corporal punishment, pension insurance and a kind of health insurance. On the site there was a village shop, whose prices were only slightly higher than the wholesale price. The " Institute for the Formation of Character" was the social center in Owen's community. There were a library with reading room, and housed a factory canteen and facilities for religious meetings and other events.
The closure of the textile factory was 1968., The plants were used as a junkyard between the closure of the mill and the founding of the New Lanark Conservation Trust in 1975. The building fell strongly. The New Lanark Conservation Trust was founded with the goal of rehabilitation and restoration of the former factory site. The facility is a listed building and is open to the public. To visit the mill itself, the school building, the Millworker 's House with workers' dwellings from the period around 1820 and 1930, a village shop, as well as the home of Robert Owen. The highlight of the exhibition is the award-winning visitor center ( housed in the former Institute for the Formation of Character ) by the New Millennium Experience Ride, an audio-visual presentation of Annie McLeod 's Story, which tells about the life of a factory girl in the era of Robert Owen. Furthermore, the canyon can be hiked with the spectacular waterfalls. The revenue of the New Lanark Conservation Trust be used for ongoing maintenance work in the area.
In an older building complex of factory building ( " Factory No. 1" from the 18th century) is now the New Lanark Mill Hotel and the former Waterhouses eight cottages have been furnished. The tract with the former workers' housing was renovated and converted into modern apartments, where currently about 200 people.
In December 2001, the plant was declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site.
New Lanark is the anchor point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH ).
Swell
- Spirallo Guide Scotland, Falk Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8279-0176-7, pp. 100-103
- New Lanark History ( book published by the New Lanark Trust) ISBN 978-0-9522531-0-5