Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Constructed in 1933, the Karnin Lift Bridge is a railway bridge in Germany that allowed rail traffic over the Peenestrom River and opened up the seaside resorts on the Baltic Sea coast.
Industrial heritage in Germany
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Berlin
Electric street lighting, arc lamps, neon lights,... In 1932, the German capital Berlin was the best lighted city on earth, according to Mildred Adams, correspondent at The New York Times.
Aachen
Brander Wald is not only a 165-hectare nature reserve, it has also been a military domain since 1937, and that is no different today: you cannot enter it during weekdays because the Bundeswehr, the German army, still conducts exercises there.
Sachsen-Anhalt
Until 1989, the five-hundred-meter-wide GDR border split the German Harz Mountains in half.
Ruhr Area
The Schwelgern coke-oven plant, built in 2003 along the river Rhine in Duisburg, is one of the most modern, environmentally friendly and largest coke-oven plants in the world.
Berlin
Between 1974 and 1976, the GDR government built the lavishly decorated Palast der Republik, a showpiece project on Marx-Engels-Platz, which housed the East German Parliament, theater halls, several restaurants and a bowling hall.
Ruhr Area
The steel headframe is all that remains of the Thyssens' mining empire in the German town of Duisburg.
Berlin
In the Reichsbahnausbesserungswerk(RAW) train workshop in Berlin, more than 2,000 employees repaired freight and passenger wagons.
Berlin
A stone's throw from the Anhalter Bahn freight station in the German capital, Berlin, construction of a new cold storage warehouse began in 1900.
Ruhr Area
One of the oldest preserved blast furnaces in the Ruhr area, the Henrichshütte in Hattingen, was built in 1854.
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