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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 the deepest point in Holland lies seven metres below sea level?
That said, the Dutch have dried up huge areas of land and continue to reclaim new areas from the water. More than half of the province of North Holland alone consists of reclaimed areas. At the same time the South province is the most densely populated and industrialised region in the whole of the Netherlands. How this came to be so is made clear by the Holland Route, one of the regional routes along the European Route of Industrial Heritage. Today the museum in the old De Cruquius pumping station shows how three steam-driven water drawing machines reclaimed an area of more than 18.000 hectares from Lake Haarlem.
