Industrial heritage in Germany

In northern Saarland, near the French border, these buildings transport you back to the Prussian mining era.

Along the Moselle lie the silent remnants of a railway bridge that was once of great strategic importance. The bridge was part of the dense railway network that, from the late 19th century, connected Germany’s industrial regions.

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.