Route of industrial culture - Gelsenkirchen
Gelsenkirchen is the name of theme route 30 of the Route of Industrial Culture - a project of the Regionalverband Ruhr (RVR) , which as a tourist theme route connects industrial monuments of the Ruhr area and includes 56 main attractions. Theme route 30 - Route of Industrial Culture - Gelsenkirchen - is in preparation.
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- Description of this themed route (unpublished) as part of the Route of Industrial Culture
Visitor center and anchor points (from west to east): Museum of German Inland Shipping | Inner harbor Duisburg | LVR Industrial Museum Oberhausen | Landscape Park Duisburg-Nord | Gasometer Oberhausen | Aquarius Water Museum | St. Antony Hut | Villa Huegel | Nordsternpark | Zeche Zollverein World Heritage Site and Zollverein Coking Plant | Ewald colliery | Marl Chemical Park | Railway Museum Bochum-Dahlhausen | Henrichshütte | Centennial Hall Bochum | Recklinghausen substation | German Mining Museum | Nightingale colliery | Henrichenburg ship lift | DASA | Hansa coking plant | Zeche Zollern II / IV | Hohenhof | Hagen Open Air Museum | Lindenbrauerei Unna | Maximilian Park Hamm
Themed routes (in ascending order by number): 1. Duisburg: City and Harbor | 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 coal, steel and beer | 7. Industrial culture on the Lippe | 8. Erzbahn-Emscherbruch | 9. Industrial culture at Volme and Ennepe | 10. Brine, steam and coal | 11. Early industrialization | 12. The 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. Myth of the Ruhr Area | 23. Parks and Gardens | 24. Industrial nature | 25. Panoramas and Landmarks | 26. Sacred buildings | 27. Iron & Steel | 28. Water: works, towers and turbines | 29. Bochum - industrial culture in the heart of the district | 30. Gelsenkirchen | 31. Industrial Culture and Bauhaus Route | by bike