European Route of Industrial Heritage
The European Route of Industrial Heritage , or ERIH for European Route of Industrial Heritage , is a network of the most important locations of Europe's industrial heritage. More than 1,000 objects, cities or regions in 43 European countries are presented on the ERIH website. In 2019 the route was certified as a cultural route by the Council of Europe .
organization
The ERIH network was set up in the years 2003–2008 by eleven project partners with financial support from the European Union ( INTERREG III B funding program - Northwest Europe). In order to continue the network after the project funding expired, an association under German law, the ERIH-European Route of Industrial Heritage eV, was founded in the spring of 2008. The number of members has now grown from 17 founding members to over 150 from 17 European countries.
ERIH goals
The aim of the project is to strengthen interest in the common European heritage of industrialization and its legacy, to present regions, places and objects of industrial history and to establish them as excursion and travel destinations in the leisure and tourism sector.
Anchor points form the main route
The - virtual - main route is formed by the so-called anchor points, the most important industrial heritage sites and the most attractive tourist sites in industrial culture . In the first phase, the route led through Great Britain , France , Belgium , the Netherlands , Luxembourg , the Czech Republic and Germany , whose industrial history is also briefly presented. In the meantime, around 80 anchor points lead to the milestones of industrial culture in 12 European countries. They include:
- the Ironbridge Gorge Museum ( UNESCO World Heritage ) in Telford, UK
- the model settlement of Saltaire (UNESCO World Heritage) near Bradford, Great Britain
- the long-wave transmitter Grimeton (UNESCO World Heritage), Sweden
- the silver mine Tarnowskie Góry (UNESCO World Heritage), Poland
- the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester , UK
- the Gladstone Pottery Museum in Stoke-on-Trent , UK
- the Musée du Carreau Wendel in Petite-Rosselle , France
- the Heineken Experience exhibition in Amsterdam, Netherlands
- the Dutch Textile Museum in Tilburg , Netherlands
- the De Cruquius steam pumping station in Cruquius, the Netherlands
- the Ecomusée Bois-du-Luc in La Louvière , Belgium
- the Flemish Mining Museum in Beringen, Belgium
- the Blegny mine in Blegny , Belgium
- the industrial and railway park Fond-de-Gras near Differdange, Luxembourg
- the Norwegian Hydroelectric and Industrial City Museum in Tyssedal / Odda , Norway
as well as in Germany
- the German Clock Museum and the German Clock Route in Furtwangen, Baden-Wuerttemberg
- the DB Museum in Nuremberg, Bavaria
- the State Textile and Industry Museum (tim) in Augsburg, Bavaria
- the Porzellanikon in Selb and Hohenberg an der Eger , Bavaria
- the Brandenburg Industrial Museum on the Havel , Brandenburg
- the visitor mine overburden conveyor bridge F60 near Lichterfeld, Brandenburg
- the Mildenberg brickworks park near Zehdenick, Brandenburg
- the Museum of Labor and its branch in the Speicherstadt, Hamburg
- the Historical-Technical Museum (HTM) in Peenemünde, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- the North German wool combing & worsted spinning mill ( north wool ) in Delmenhorst, Lower Saxony
- the ore mine Rammelsberg (UNESCO World Heritage) in Goslar, Lower Saxony
- the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg, Lower Saxony
- the Zeche Zollern II / IV in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia
- the landscape park Duisburg-Nord , North Rhine-Westphalia
- the World Heritage Site Zeche und Kokerei Zollverein (UNESCO World Heritage Site) in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia
- the cloth factory Müller in Euskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia
- the brick factory Lage , North Rhine-Westphalia
- the Oberhausen gasometer , North Rhine-Westphalia
- the drop forge Hendrichs in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia
- the Völklinger Hütte (UNESCO World Heritage), Saarland
- the Chemnitz Industrial Museum , Saxony
- the Knappenrode energy factory , Saxony
- the August Horch Museum in Zwickau, Saxony
- the Ferropolis Museum in Graefenhainichen, Saxony-Anhalt
- the Merkers adventure mine , Thuringia
European themed routes
Thirteen European themed routes show the full diversity of Europe's industrial and cultural landscapes and their common roots:
- Textile : from thread to factory
- Mining : the treasures of our earth
- Iron and steel : the glow of the blast furnace
- paper
- Salt: white gold
- Production and Trade: Goods for the World
- Energy: what moves us
- Transport and Communication: The Tracks of the Industrial Revolution
- Water: blue gold
- Industry and war
- Living and architecture: living and working
- Service and leisure industries: After the shift
- Industrial Landscapes: A New Face for the World
Regional routes
Sixteen regional routes reveal the history of regions and areas that have been particularly shaped by industrialization. Eight of them are in Germany:
- Route of industrial culture in the northwest - between the Weser and Ems
- The regional route "Ruhr area"
- Regional route " Valleys of Industrial Culture " - in the Rhenish Slate Mountains with the Bergisches Land , the Märkisches Sauerland and the Siegerland
- Industrial culture in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine - the three-country region around Liège, Maastricht and Aachen
- Saxony-Anhalt - the Central German innovation region
- ENERGY route of the Lausitz industrial culture
- Route of industrial culture Rhine-Main
- Regional route Saar-Lor-Lux - the region along the Saar, Lorraine and Luxembourg.
The rest are
- the Holland Route in the Netherlands,
- the Regional Route Catalonia in Spain,
- the route of technical monuments in the Silesian Voivodeship in Poland,
- as well as five regional routes in Great Britain:
- the North West England Regional Route - the "Cradle of the Industrial Revolution "
- the " Heart of England " route in the English Midlands
- the South Wales Regional Route
- " The Industrial East "
- Cornwall's Route of Industrial Heritage .
literature
- Douet, James (Ed.): Industrial Heritage Re-tooled: The TICCIH guide to Industrial Heritage Conservation . Carnegie, Lancaster 2012, ISBN 978-1-85936-218-1 .
- Herrmann, Hans-Walter, Rainer Hudemann and Eva Kell (eds.) With the collaboration of Alexander König: Research task industrial culture . Saarbrücken 2004, ISBN 3-923-754-99-X .
- Initiative Völklinger Hütte (ed.): Die Völklinger Hütte , Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2008.
- Oevermann, Heike, Harald A. Mieg (eds.): Industrial Heritage Sites in Transformation: Clash of Discourses . Routledge, London / New York 2014, ISBN 978-0415745284 .
