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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...
where the tallest exhibition area in the Europe can be found?
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.
