Industrial city

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The highly industrialized Barmen in 1870. Painting by August von Wille (detail).

The industrial city or factory city is a type of city that emerged in the course of industrialization in the 19th century . The railroad and a grid-shaped road network appear as the transport system. Other characteristic features are often tenements and villa areas . It is also noticeable that a spatial separation of work and living is achieved, but this ultimately still exists closely together.

Germany

Early German industrial cities were Chemnitz , Zwickau and Berlin . Chemnitz was by far the most developed in Germany. The textile industry was the basis of their rise. This is why Chemnitz was also known as the “Saxon Manchester”.

Nowadays, most of the large cities in Germany can be described as industrial cities , even if their development does not correspond to the actual definition of the term. The city of Hamburg is now an industrial city, although its origins should be called a trading city .

Also, Dortmund and Duisburg in the Ruhr had in the Middle Ages importance as trading towns and then grew rapidly during the industrialization of. Examples of “real” industrial cities are, along with many other cities in the Ruhr area, Herne and Gelsenkirchen , which were only small villages in the pre-industrial era; similar to Katowice in what is now Polish Upper Silesia .

Distribution of machine tool factories in Germany in 1846:

• Chemnitz / Zwickau = approx. 135 factories
• Dresden = approx. 60 factories
• Berlin = approx. 38 factories
• Leipzig = approx. 18 factories
• Cologne = approx. 5 factories
• Düsseldorf = approx. 5 factories
• Middle Franconia = approx. 5 factories

Switzerland

The northern Swiss city of Winterthur is an example of a place that is heavily influenced by large-scale industry . Many of the huge buildings and halls date from the 19th century and were converted for cultural purposes after the fall of the dominant machine industry in the 1980s.

Web links

Wiktionary: Industrial city  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Footnotes

1. ↑ Duden | Industrial city | Spelling, meaning, definition. Retrieved August 14, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Hans J. Naumann et al. (Ed.): Machine tool construction in Saxony: from the beginnings to the present. Chemnitz, 2003.
3. ↑ Winterthur: An industrial city had to change - SWI swissinfo.ch. In: swissinfo.ch. December 26, 2006, accessed December 18, 2016 .