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The Industrial Heritage Trail () links tourist attractions related to the

industrial heritage Industrial heritage refers to the physical and intangible legacy of industrialisation, including buildings, machinery, workshops, sites, and landscapes of historical and technological significance. Stefan Berger and Steven High define industrial h ...

in the

Ruhr area The Ruhr ( ; , also ''Ruhrpott'' ), also referred to as the Ruhr Area, sometimes Ruhr District, Ruhr Region, or Ruhr Valley, is a polycentric urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population density of 1,160/km2 and a populati ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

. It is a part of the

European Route of Industrial Heritage The European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH) is a tourist route of the most important industrial heritage sites in Europe. This is a tourism industry information initiative to present a network of industrial heritage sites across Europe. The ...

. The series of routes were developed between 1989 and 1999, however additions are still being made.

The route

The trail network connects museums and exhibitions that present the industrial revolution during the last 750 years in the Ruhr area. It includes 400 km of road network and about 700 km of bicycle tracks.

The attractions

There are 52 main attractions on the trail. *

Bochum Dahlhausen Railway Museum The Eisenbahnmuseum Bochum-Dahlhausen is a railway museum situated south of the city of Bochum in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded by DGEG, the German Railway History Company in 1977 and is based in a locomotive depo ...

German Inland Waterways Museum The German Inland Waterways Museum (German: ''Museum der Deutschen Binnenschifffahrt'') is located in Ruhrort, Duisburg at the nucleus of Duisburg-Ruhrorter ports, which today make up the largest European inland harbour complex. The museum wa ...

* Villa Hügel *

Zeche Carl iMAGE:RouteIndustriekultur Hinweisschild schmal.svg, 150px, The Industrial Heritage Trail, Ruhr Industrial Heritage Trail Zeche Carl (Carl Mine) is a cultural centre set up by Essen#City council, Essen Council in a former coal mine. History The m ...

Visitor centres and anchor points

Duisburg Inner Harbour The Innenhafen (Inner Harbour) in Duisburg, Germany, is connected to the Rhine River, encompasses an area of . For over a hundred years during the high point of the Industrial Revolution, it was the central harbour and trading point of the to ...

* Oberhausen Industrial Museum *

Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord Landschaftspark is a public park located in Duisburg-Meiderich, Germany. It was designed in 1991 by Latz + Partner ( Peter Latz), with the intention that it work to heal and understand the industrial past, rather than trying to reject it. The ...

Gasometer Oberhausen The Gasometer Oberhausen is a decommissioned gas holder in Oberhausen, Germany, repurposed into a prominent exhibition venue. As an industrial landmark, it serves as an anchor point for both the European Route of Industrial Heritage and the Ind ...

* Aquarius Water Museum * Villa Hügel *

Nordsternpark Nordsternpark (lit. ''North Star Park'') is a park in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. It is located on the compound of former mine of Zeche Nordstern. After the closure of the mine in 1993 the area was redeveloped. In 1997, the Bundesgartenschau (Federal ...

* World Heritage Site

Zeche Zollverein The Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex (German Zeche Zollverein) is a large former industrial site in the city of Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The first Coal mining, coal mine on the premises was founded in 1847, and mining activ ...

Marl Chemical Park Marl Chemical Park () is an industrial park in Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the third largest industrial cluster in Germany and among the largest chemical industry, chemical production facilities in Europe. The site occupies over ...

* Henrichshütte * Centennial Hall Bochum * Recklinghausen Substation *

German Mining Museum __NOTOC__ The German Mining Museum in Bochum () or DBM is one of the most visited museums in Germany with around 365,700 visitors per year (2012).Auskunft der Pressestelle des DBM, 12 September 2013 It is the largest mining museum in the world,

* Zeche Nachtigall * Henrichenburg boat lift * German Occupational Safety Exhibition (DASA) * Hansa Coking Plant * '' Zeche Zollern II/IV'' * Hohenhof * Hagen Open-air Museum * Lindenbrauerei Unna * Maximilianpark Hamm *

Halde Rheinpreußen The Halde Rheinpreußen is a spoil tip in the German city Moers which lies above its ambit. It is part of the category ''Panoramas'' of the Ruhr Industrial Heritage Trail. In 1963, the spoil tip was heaped up with materials of the pit 5/9, i.e. ...

Theme routes

# Duisburg: Town and Harbour # Zollverein Industrial Landscape # Duisburg: Industrial Culture on the Rhine # Oberhausen: Industry makes the Town # Krupp and the Town of Essen # Dortmund: Dreiklang Coal, Steel and Bier # Industrial Culture on the Lippe # Erzbahn-Emscherbruch # Industrial Culture at Volme and Ennepe # Brine, Steam and Coal # Early Industrialisation # The History and the Present of the Ruhr # On the Way to the Blue Emscher # Canals and Shipping # Railways in the Area # Westphalia Mining Route # Rhenish Mining Route # Chemistry, Glass and Energy # Workers' Settlements # Entrepreneurial Villas # Bread, Grain and Beer # Myth of the Ruhr Region # Historic Parks and Gardens # Industry/Nature # Panoramas and Landmarks # Sacred Buildings #

Iron and Steel Ferrous metallurgy is the metallurgy of iron and its alloys. The earliest surviving prehistoric iron artifacts, from the 4th millennium BC in Egypt, were made from meteoritic iron-nickel. It is not known when or where the smelting of iron from ...

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Hamm Hamm may refer to: Places ;Germany: * Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia, a city north-east of Dortmund * Hamm (Sieg), a municipality in the eponymous ''Verbandsgemeinde'' in the district of Altenkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate * Hamm, Bitburg-Prüm, part ...

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