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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 German mining museum in Bochum is the most important mining museum in the world?
With around 400.000 visitors a year it is also one of the most popular museums in Germany. A major attraction is the replica of a mine twenty metres below the ground, complete with coal seams, galleries, shaft equipment and huge mining machines. The German Mining Museum is a part of the Ruhrgebiet regional trail on the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
