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| China | Kerkrade, Industriemuseum INDUSTRION |
| Ausstellung: Dampfloks für das Wirtschaftswunder | Dortmund, LWL-Industriemuseum Zeche Zollern II/IV |
| Ausstellung: Von Feuer, Wasser & bösen Wettern | Hoyerswerda, Sächsisches Industriemuseum Energiefabrik Knappenrode |
| Exhibition: Magical History Tour | Liverpool, Merseyside Maritime Museum am Albert Dock |
| Ausstellung: DAS AUGE DES HIMMELS | Oberhausen, Gasometer Oberhausen im CentrO |
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Welcome
to the European Route of Industrial Heritage, the tourism information network of industrial heritage in Europe.
Currently we present more than 830 sites in 29 European countries. Among these sites there are 66 Anchor Points which build the virtual ERIH main route. On ten Regional Routes you can discover the industrial history of these landscapes in detail. All sites relate to ten European Theme Routes which show the diversity of European industrial history and their common roots.
Anchor Point of the Day
Museum of Work | Hamburg
The telephone, the light bulb, the camera – what we now take for granted was revolutionary...
Do you know...
that it is possible to visit Europe's largest exhibition of fireplaces in the Knappenrode energy factory?
It’s the Gasometer in Oberhausen, Germany. The Gasometer (117.5 m. high, with a diameter of 67.6 m and a usable volume of 347.000 cubic metres) is also the largest gasometer in Europe. It was completed in 1929 as an interim store for waste gas from the nearby Good Hope Mill steelworks. Some time later it took up coking gas from the Osterfeld coking plant, and most of this was used to supply nearby industrial plants. The Gasometer was closed down in 1988. In 1999 Christo and Jeanne-Claude presented their spectacular art project "The Wall" in this highly unusual exhibition area.
