Industrial heritage in Germany

Thanks to its red colour, the Delbrück II headframe is a true landmark in the Saarland mining landscape.

The former VEB Schultheiss-Brauerei Schönhauser Allee today houses everything except a brewery. Brewing beer had already come to an end in the GDR era.

Aircraft development in Germany gained momentum after Adolf Hitler came to power in early 1933.

Between 1909 and 1911, the German coal mine Camphausen was expanded with a fourth headframe in reinforced concrete, a worldwide first at the time.

A fence of precast concrete elements borders a former GDR-run horticultural farm in the German capital, Berlin.

An offshoot of the South Limburg coal vein extends far beyond the German border. That explains why you can also find coal mines north of Aachen.

A steel water tower marks the site of the long-defunct coal mine Carolus Magnus in the Aachen mining district.

Four wooden cooling towers cooled thousands of cubic metres of water produced by the Hansa coking plant near Dortmund daily.

In Lanckensburg, on the German island of Rügen, German architect Paul Imberg erected an imposing granary tower in 1913.

In 1973, the foundation stone of the nuclear power plant of the future was laid in Kalkar, Germany. However, power was never produced there. Where did it go wrong?