Industrial Heritage Route
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
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
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:
- Museum of German Inland Shipping , Duisburg
- Duisburg inner harbor
- LVR-Industriemuseum Oberhausen , vorm. Rhenish Industrial Museum (RIM)
- Landscape Park Duisburg-Nord
- Oberhausen gasometer
- Aquarius Water Museum , Mülheim an der Ruhr
- St. Antony Hut , Oberhausen (new from 2019)
- Villa Huegel , Essen
- Nordsternpark , Gelsenkirchen
- UNESCO World Heritage Site Zeche Zollverein (visitor center) and Zollverein coking plant , Essen
- Ewald colliery , Herten (new from 2011)
- Marl Chemical Park
- Bochum-Dahlhausen Railway Museum
- Henrichshütte , Hattingen
- Centennial Hall Bochum
- Recklinghausen substation
- German Mining Museum , Bochum
- Nightingale colliery , Witten
- Henrichenburg ship lift , Waltrop
- DASA - Working World Exhibition , Dortmund
- Hansa coking plant , Dortmund
- Zeche Zollern II / IV , Dortmund
- Hohenhof , Hagen
- Hagen Open Air Museum
- Lindenbrauerei , Unna
- Maximilian Park , Hamm
Panoramas
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":
- Stockpile Rheinelbe , Gelsenkirchen
- Tippelsberg , Bochum (new since 2011)
- Landscape Park Hoheward , Herten, Recklinghausen (new since 2011) with the Hoppenbruch / Hoheward heaps
- Schwerin dump , Castrop-Rauxel
- Heap of large wood , Bergkamen
- Kissinger Höhe , Hamm
- TV tower Florian , Dortmund
- Hohensyburg , Dortmund
- Berger memorial , Witten
- Tiger & Turtle , Duisburg
- Stockpile Rhein Prussia , Moers
- Halde Pattberg , Moers
- Alsumer Berg , Duisburg
- Haniel dump , Bottrop
- Tetrahedron , Bottrop
- Rungenberg dump , Gelsenkirchen
- Schurenbachhalde , Essen
Settlements
Numerous workers' settlements are listed in theme route 19 . Of these, 13 settlements are highlighted as particularly important:
- Seam Dickebank , Gelsenkirchen
- Dahlhauser Heide , Bochum
- Teutoburgia , Herne-Börnig
- Old Colony Eving , Dortmund
- Ziethenstrasse of the Prussian colliery , Lünen
- Long squad , Hagen-Eilpe
- Altenhof II , Essen
- Margarethenhöhe , Essen
- Rheinpreußen settlement , Duisburg
- Old Friedrich-Heinrich settlement , Kamp-Lintfort
- Eisenheim settlement , Oberhausen
- Welheim Garden City , Bottrop
- Schüngelberg settlement , Gelsenkirchen
Themed routes
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:
- Duisburg: city and port
- Industrial cultural landscape Zollverein
- Duisburg: industrial culture on the Rhine
- Oberhausen: Industry makes the city
- Krupp and the city of Essen
- Dortmund: triad of coal, steel and beer
- Industrial culture on the lip
- Erzbahn-Emscherbruch
- Industrial culture on Volme and Ennepe
- Brine, steam and coal
- Early industrialization
- Past and present of the Ruhr
- On the way to the blue Emscher
- Canals and shipping
- Lanes in the area
- Westphalian mining route
- Rhenish mining route
- Chemistry, glass and energy
- Workers' settlements
- Entrepreneur villas
- Bread, grain and beer
- The myth of the Ruhr area
- Parks and gardens
- Industrial nature
- Panoramas and Landmarks
- Sacred buildings
- Route of Industrial Culture - Iron & Steel
- Water: works, towers and turbines
- Bochum - industrial culture in the heart of the district
- Route of industrial culture - Gelsenkirchen
- 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
- List of sights in the Ruhr Valley
- Museums in the Ruhr area
- Route of industrial culture Rhine-Main
- History of the Ruhr area
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
- Site of the Route of Industrial Heritage
- The route of industrial culture from the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe. Westphalia regional
- General information on the route from the online magazine Ruhrguide.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Accessibility. Industrial heritage route, accessed on January 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Families on the route. Industrial heritage route, accessed on January 3, 2020 .
- ↑ RVR: St. Antony-Hütte is the new anchor point website of the RVR. Accessed January 2, 2020.
- ^ Iron & Steel. Industrial Heritage Route, accessed July 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Gelsenkirchen. Industrial Heritage Route, accessed July 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Bauhaus. RVR, accessed July 30, 2020 .