Industrial heritage in Germany

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?

An iron railway bridge has stretched across the Old Rhine close to the Dutch border for over a century and a half.

A control tower was erected at West Berlin's Joachimsthaler Platz to manage car traffic in 1956.

Several metres of reconstructed tram tracks recall the world's first electric tram ride in the German capital, Berlin. Werner von Siemens stood at the cradle of that world first. 

New Year's Eve 1874. Over a railway viaduct hundreds of metres long near Wesel, Germany, a first train thunders over what will become the transnational railway line between Paris and Hamburg.