The route of the industrial culture is a project of the regional association Ruhr (RVR) and connects the most important and routistic most attractive industrial monuments of the Ruhr district.

Generally

The net opens museums and exhibitions, which represent industrial developments of the past 150 years in the Ruhr district. Here it might concern the world-wide largest routistic network for the development of the industrialcultural inheritance of a region.

Since the entire net pulls itself by the very closely populated Ruhr district, it is very well routistic opened and offers a very good infrastructure, as a high density at hotels, youth hostels and camping sites.

It is out-described one to about 400 km long holidays road, which includes all attractions. The net covers altogether about 700 km cycle track in the context of the route of the industrial culture by wheel. Furthermore there are special routes for humans with handicaps as well as for children.

The route of the industrial culture in the Ruhr district is also as "“regional route so mentioned"” part of "“ERIH - European route OF Industrial Heritage"”, the European route of the industrial culture.

Attractions

Apart from 25 main attractions ("“points of anchor so mentioned"”), there are to six technique and socialhistorically meaning museums, nine lookout points with panorama view in the industrial landscape and twelve workers' housing estates, which can be visited. All goals can with car, bus and course be attained in addition, with the bicycle or by motorboat well.

Visitor centers

• Landscape park Duisburg north
• World cultural heritage bill customs union
• industrial museum bill Zollern II/IV

Points of anchor

of the west eastward

• Museum of the German inland waterway craft travel, Duisburg
• Interior port Duisburg
• Rheini industrial museum upper living, upper living
• Landscape park Duisburg north
• Gasometer upper living in the center
• Aquarius Wassermuseum, at the Ruhr
• Ruhr land museum, meal
• Mansion hill, meal
• North star park, gel churches
• World cultural heritage bill customs union, meal
• Chemistry park Marl, Marl
• Railway museum, Bochum
• industrial museum Hattingen
• , Bochum century-resounds
• Transformer station Recklinghausen, museum river and life, Recklinghausen
• German mining industry museum, Bochum
• Nightingale in Witten, a museum mine carouses
• industrial museum old ship lift Henrichenburg, Waltrop
• German industrial safety exhibition, Dortmund
• Coking plant Hansa, Dortmund
• industrial museum bill Zollern II/IV, Dortmund
• Mansion high yard, Hagen
• open air museum, Hagen
• Lime tree brewery, Unna
• Maximilianpark, Hamm

Topic routes

From the points of anchor 25 topic routes proceed, which background and views of various aspects of the industrial culture and - history of the Ruhr district obtain. The topic routes lead too over 500 industrie and technique monuments, give however many further Tipps to still more locations:

• Duisburg: City and port
• Industrielle culture landscape customs union
• Duisburg: Industrial culture on the Rhine
• Upperlive: Industry makes city
• Krupp and the city meal
• Dortmund: Triad coal, steel and beer
• Industrial culture at the lip
• Erzbahn Emscherbruch
• Industrial culture at Volme and Ennepe
• Circle Unna: Brine, steam and coal
• Early industrialization
• History and presence of the Ruhr
• On the way to the blue Em
• Channels and navigation
• Courses in the district
• mining industry route
• Rheini mining industry route
• Industrial chemistry and energy
• Workers' housing estates
• Entrepreneur mansions
• Bread, grain and beer
• Myth Ruhr district
• Historical parks and gardens
• Industrial nature
• Landmark art

Lookout points

• Waste dump Pattberg, Moers
• Alsumer mountain, Duisburg
• Waste dump Haniel, Bottrop
• Tetrahedron, Bottrop
• Waste dump Schurenbach, meal
• Waste dump run gene mountain, gel churches
• Waste dump Rhine Elbe, gel churches
• Waste dump Hoppenbruch, Herten
• Waste dump Schwerin, Castrop Rauxel
• Florianturm, Dortmund
• Hohensyburg, Dortmund
• Waste dump large wood, mountain-came
• Kissinger height, Hamm

See also

• List of the trip goals and objects of interest in the Ruhr district
• List of the objects of interest in the Ruhr valley
• Route of the industrial culture Rhine Main

Literature

• Local federation Ruhr district: Route industrial culture. Experience leader, 2001, ISBN 3932165233

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