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Industrial Heritage Tourism
in Europe
Dr Wolfgang Ebert
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A new project
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• is a European project for

• Spatial development

• Industrial heritage

• Tourism

• part-financed by the

• EU-INTERREG-Programme

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Industrial Heritage

• Is an important part of the European heritage

• Is a chance for

• Regeneration through Heritage

• Sustainable tourism

• Industrial Heritage tourism with economic success

• Enhancing spatial and urban planning

• Future needs heritage !

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The Occasion

• The campaign of the EU

• Europe - Our Shared Heritage

• The example

• The Route of Industrial Heritage at The Ruhr,
  Germany

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A successful Network
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Working since 1999

• 25 Anchor points the Highlights

• 552 sites

• 25 Theme Routes

• The base is Network-Marketing

• More than 10 millions visitors per year

• An investment of more than 10 Billions

• At the Silicon Valley of the Heavy Industry

www.route-industriekultur.de
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The Profile of ERIH

• Industrial heritage tourism requires

• Understanding the industrial landscapes

• Attractive sites

• Customers

• A market

• A network of information and marketing

• A well known brand

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Planning and Organisationin the first Phase

• Building a network of information and partners

• Research work for sites and routes

• Thematic conferences

• Setting up a master-plan (end of 2001) for a
  part of Europe

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The Partners

• Are developing the vision since 1999

• Are financing the project together

• Are representing one (or more) single site(s)

• Are consultants for the research work for the
  whole of the country which they represent

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What do we offer ?
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The Network of ERIH wants to

• set up a structure offering professional
  services in and outside the network

• offer information and service about sites and
  routes to marketing organisations

• spread information and knowledge within the
  system of partners

• raise the quality of interpretation at the
  sites of the network

• work on better promotion of the sites

• work together with urban and spatial planners
  to spread the idea of Regeneration through
  Heritage

• offer direct information-services to
  customers about sites and routes

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Sites and Networks

• The most attractive industrial heritage sites

• With an outstanding history

• With tourist potential

• We call them "anchor points"

• They will be linked to the main route

• And more

• Sites which help to understand landscapes

• They will form the regional and thematic routes

• These routes start at the anchor points

• All in all a network - easy to use and promote

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Partners and sites
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The BritishSub-Group
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Anchor Points

• Blaenavon Big Pit National Mining Museum of
  Wales
• Caernarfon Welsh Slate Museum
• Sheffield Kelham Island Museum
• Stoke-on-Trent Gladstone Pottery Museum
• Brentford Kew Bridge Steam Museum
• Matlock Arkwright Society
• Manchester Saltaire Village
• Lanark New Lanark Conservation Trust
• Northwhich Lion Salt Works Trust
• Dundee Verdant Works
• Telford Iron Bridge Museums
• Bickley Waltham Abbey Gunpowder Mill
• Overton, Wakefield National Coal Mining Museum
  for England, Overton
• Newtongrange Scottish Mining Museum
• Birmingham Museum of Jewellery Quarter
• Chatham The Historic Dockyard
• Gloucester National Waterways Museum (at
  Gloucester Docks)
• Swansea National Waterfront Museum
• Truro Geevor Museum

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• Borough of Telford Wrekin

• Anchor point Ironbridge Gorge World
  Heritage Site

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• The Manchester University

• Anchor point Manchester and Salford Proposed
  World Heritage Site

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• Torfaen County Borough

• Anchor point Big Pit National Mining Museum
  of Wales Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
  World Heritage Site

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• Essex County Council

• Anchor point Royal Gunpowder Mill, Waltham Abbey

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Belgium

• Vereniging voor Industriële Archeologie en
  Textiel, Gent

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Anchor point

• MIAT - Museum of Industry and Textile, Gent

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Anchor points

• La Foundry, Brussels Museum of Industrial and
  Social History of the Brussels Region
• Westoria Tourist Centre, Diksmuide
• Museum of Industry and Textile, Gent
• Flemish Mining Museum, Behringen
• National Museum of Navigation, Antwerp
• The Masters of Fire, Amay
• Museum of Industry Forge La Providence,
  Charleroi
• Canal du Centre Shiplifts, La Louviere
  (Vistors Centre SENEFFE) World Heritage Site
• PASS Scientific Aventure Park Le Crachet, Mons
• Visitors Mine Blegny, Blegny
• Furnace St Michel, St Hubert

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The Netherlands

• Stichting Industriecultuur Nederland, Alkmaar

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Anchor Points

• Kerkrade Museum of Industry "Industrion"
• Tilburg The Dutch Museum of Textiles
• Burgh-Haamstede Oosterscheldekering-Neeltjejans
• Rotterdam Wilhelmina Quays
• Haarlemmermeer Seam Punping Station "De
  Cruquius"
• Amsterdam Heineken Experience - Heineken Brewery
• Zaandam Museum Zaanse Schans
• Hengelo Museum of Technology HEIM
• Enschede Museum of Textiles and Social Life
  Jannink
• Zenenaar Brick Works "De Panoven"

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Pictures
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The Saar

• World Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte Iron
  Works European Centre for Art and Industrial
  Heritage

• Consultants to the Government of the Saar

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Anchor Point

• Voelklinger Hütte Iron Works World Heritage
  Site

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More Anchor Pointsat the Saar-Lor-Lux Region

• Musée du bassin houiller lorrain
  Petite-Rosselle, France
• Industry and Railway Park Fond-de-Gras,
  Luxembourg

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The Lead Partner

• North-Rhine-Westphalian Board of Tourism

• The Secretariat of the Prime-Minister

• in co-operation with

• The Minister for Urban Planning, Housing,
  Culture Affaires and Sports (responsible for
  Monument Preservation)

• The Minister for Economic Affaires, Energy and
  Transport (responsible for Tourism)

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Anchor Points

• Colliery and Coking plant Zollverein, Essen
  (Ruhr) - World Heritage Site
• Landscape Park Duisburg-North, Duisburg
  (Ruhr)
• Westphalian Museum of Industry Colliery
  Zollern II/IV, Dortmund (Ruhr)
• Rhenish Museum of Industry Textile Mill
  Müller, Euskirchen
• Rhenish Museum of Industry Drop Forge
  Hendrichs, Solingen
• Westphalian Museum of Industry Brick Works
  Sylbach, Lage

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The Main Route

• will link all the anchor points

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Regional Routes

• Each anchor point will serve as an
  information point to promote the route it
  is representing

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TransnationalTheme Routes

• Mining The Assets of our Earth

• Iron and Steel Blast Furnaces Glowing

• Textile From Fabric to Factory

• Production and Manufacturing Goods
  for the World

• Application of Power What Makes Us Go

• Transport and Communication The Tracks of
  the Industrial Revolution

• Water Blue Gold

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Information-Systems

• Sites will be identified by symbols and signs

• Road signposting only at prominent places

• Or on regional routes (like at the Ruhr)

• Media will provide routes and information

• On the internet

• A tourist information system

• www.erih.net

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The First Step
First Launch was in September 2005 at Ironbridge
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The next Steps

• Establishing the working network step by step

• Setting up the network for more regions of Europe

• Including existing networks in some regions

• Completing the information-systems

• Co-operation with the tourist organisations

• for the further development of

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Thank you for your interest !