Industrial Heritage Route

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Information sign on the route. This is listed by name directly at the anchor point.

The Route of Industrial Culture is a project of the Regionalverband Ruhr (RVR) and connects the "most important and touristically most attractive" industrial monuments of the Ruhr area as a tourist themed route . The RVR selects the stations listed.

General

Map of the route at a local information point

Despite the name Route of Industrial Culture, it is not a single route, but a network that connects museums, exhibitions, panoramic viewpoints and historically significant settlements. The individual locations represent the industrial developments of the past centuries in the Ruhr area. This is probably the world's most extensive tourist network for the development of the industrial and cultural heritage of a coherent region. There is a separate network of trails for cyclists.

An approximately 400 km long holiday route is signposted, which includes all attractions. The network comprises a total of around 700 km of cycle paths as part of the Route of Industrial Culture by Bike . There are also special routes for people with disabilities and families.

The RVR regularly revises the stations in the network, so thematic routes are expanded or corrected and new anchor points are opened. At the end of 2019, a completely new themed route was added with route no. 31 “Route Industrial Culture and Bauhaus”. Also at the end of 2019, the St. Antony Hut was upgraded from a station to an anchor point. Since the entire network runs through the very densely populated Ruhr area, it is very well developed for tourism and offers a very good infrastructure, as well as a high density of hotels, youth hostels and campsites.

The route of industrial culture in the Ruhr area is also part of the so-called "Regional Route" of "ERIH - European Route of Industrial Heritage", the European Route of Industrial Heritage .

Attractions

Anchor points are marked with a yellow circle with a brown border
The visitor center is marked with a yellow circle with a brown border and a brown dot inside
Panoramic view of the Duisburg-Nord landscape park
Panorama of the model of the Zeche Zollverein
Zollern colliery

The 56 main attractions include

  • 26 anchor points, including several museums of technology and social history,
  • 17 viewpoints with panoramic views of the industrial landscape and
  • 13 important workers' settlements.

All destinations can be easily reached by car, bus and train, but also by bike or, in some cases, even by motorboat. The main attractions are indicated by brown signs with white letters.

Anchor points and visitor center

The central visitor center is the Zollverein World Heritage Site in Essen. With the "Portal of Industrial Culture" it offers extensive information options. The anchor points are places of experience and hubs for information. Listed from west to east:

Panoramas

Icon for the panoramas
"Geluchter" by Otto Piene on the Rheinpreußen dump , Moers

In theme route 25, the landmarks and panoramas are described, which are often located on heaps or other elevated points. Some of them are designed as new symbols of landmark art. The 17 most important are highlighted as "panoramas of the industrial landscape":

Settlements

Symbol for the settlements
Eisenheim before 1910

Numerous workers' settlements are listed in theme route 19 . Of these, 13 settlements are highlighted as particularly important:

Themed routes

1: Duisburg: City and port : Duisburg's inner harbor at night
7: Industrial culture on the Lippe : The glass elephant in Maximilianpark , Hamm
17/19: Workers' settlements : The Repelen settlement

Themed routes emanate from the anchor points, providing background information and insights into diverse aspects of industrial culture and history in the Ruhr area. The themed routes lead to over 900 industrial and technical monuments, but give many more tips on even more locations:

  1. Duisburg: city and port
  2. Industrial cultural landscape Zollverein
  3. Duisburg: industrial culture on the Rhine
  4. Oberhausen: Industry makes the city
  5. Krupp and the city of Essen
  6. Dortmund: triad of coal, steel and beer
  7. Industrial culture on the lip
  8. Erzbahn-Emscherbruch
  9. Industrial culture on Volme and Ennepe
  10. Brine, steam and coal
  11. Early industrialization
  12. Past and present of the Ruhr
  13. On the way to the blue Emscher
  14. Canals and shipping
  15. Lanes in the area
  16. Westphalian mining route
  17. Rhenish mining route
  18. Chemistry, glass and energy
  19. Workers' settlements
  20. Entrepreneur villas
  21. Bread, grain and beer
  22. The myth of the Ruhr area
  23. Parks and gardens
  24. Industrial nature
  25. Panoramas and Landmarks
  26. Sacred buildings
  27. Route of Industrial Culture - Iron & Steel
  28. Water: works, towers and turbines
  29. Bochum - industrial culture in the heart of the district
  30. Route of industrial culture - Gelsenkirchen
  31. Route of Industrial Culture - Route of Industrial Culture and Bauhaus

After the RVR published a new themed route for the first time in several years with the route “Sacred Buildings” in May 2013, the “Bochum” theme was added at the end of March 2014; at the same time, three more new routes were announced. In January 2016, the “Water” route was filled with locations, “Gelsenkirchen” and “Eisen & Stahl” are still in preparation. Route 31 “Route Industrial Culture and Bauhaus” was published in October 2019; it was created through research as part of the “Bauhaus in the West” program for the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus .

See also

Portal: Route of Industrial Culture  - Overview of Wikipedia content on Route of Industrial Culture

literature

  • Christiane and Uwe Ziebold: Ruhr area - 19 day tours on the route of industrial culture . Bike guide. Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7654-4833-1 .
  • Delia Bösch: Ruhr Area - Industrial Culture Discovery Tour . Travel Guide. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8375-0447-7 .
  • Industrial heritage route. Adventure guide . Municipal Association of the Ruhr Area , 2001, ISBN 3-932165-23-3 .
  • Daniela Tobler: Industrial tourism in the Ruhr area with special consideration of the "Route of Industrial Culture" . Master's thesis at the University of Lüneburg Germany. Diplomica Verlag, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 978-3-8386-3175-2 .

Web links

Commons : Route of industrial culture  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Route of Industrial Heritage  - Travel Guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Accessibility. Industrial heritage route, accessed on January 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Families on the route. Industrial heritage route, accessed on January 3, 2020 .
  3. ↑ RVR: St. Antony-Hütte is the new anchor point website of the RVR. Accessed January 2, 2020.
  4. ^ Iron & Steel. Industrial Heritage Route, accessed July 30, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Gelsenkirchen. Industrial Heritage Route, accessed July 30, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Bauhaus. RVR, accessed July 30, 2020 .