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The Euregio Maas-Rhine Regional Route
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The three-nation region around Liège, Maastricht and Aachen, known as the Euregio Maas-Rhine, has often been described as ?Europe on a small scale?. It comprises three countries, three languages and five regions ? (the Belgians contribute one Walloon and one Flemish province, as a well as a German-speaking community) ? and its rich multiplicity, huge potential and small problems mirror all the distinctive features of Europe as a whole. |
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ERIH Annual Conference 2010 27th to 29th October 2010 in Barcelona, Spain
The registration for the ERIH conference is now open until 30th September 2010.
Guido Coal Mine awarded
ERIH Anchor Point Guido Coal Mine in Zabrze (Poland) awarded as Ambassador of Silesia
Days of Industrial Heritage in the Rhine-Main area
10 to 15 August 2010 more than 240 events at 150 sites will take place in the region between...
Welcome
to the European Route of Industrial Heritage, the tourism information network of industrial heritage in Europe.
Currently we present more than 850 sites in 32 European countries. Among these sites there are 72 Anchor Points which build the virtual ERIH main route. On thirteen 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
The mine, The Carreau Wendel Museum | Petite-Rosselle
The sheer size of the central tip is enough to give you an idea of what was going on here...
Do you know...
that an abbot in Belgium built a blast furnace?
In 1771 Dom Nicolas Spirlet, the last abbot of the St Hubert Benedictine monastery, had the St Michael blast furnace built in the wooded area of Fourneau Saint-Michel. It was in operation until 1942. 10 years later the historic industrial site was given the status of a monument. The blast furnace is one of the best maintained furnaces of its type in Europe, and still contains a shaft, a foundry and charcoal sheds. Since 1977 the "Musée du fer" (Museum of Iron) has one of the units in the adjacent "Musee de la vie rural en Wallonie", an open-air museum containing fifty typical regional buildings.
