Aachen
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.
Aachen
A steel water tower marks the site of the long-defunct coal mine Carolus Magnus in the Aachen mining district.
Ruhr Area
Four wooden cooling towers cooled thousands of cubic metres of water produced by the Hansa coking plant near Dortmund daily.
Nordrhein-Westfalen
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?
Nordrhein-Westfalen
An iron railway bridge has stretched across the Old Rhine close to the Dutch border for over a century and a half.
Ruhr Area
In 1901, August Thyssen built a steel factory with a blast furnace, the Rheinische Stahlwerke zu Meiderich bei Ruhrort, in Duisburg, Germany.
Nordrhein-Westfalen
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.
Ruhr Area
The Hansa coking plant in the German city of Dortmund operated for 64 years, but the factory closed its doors in 1992.
Ruhr Area
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Consol - full name Zeche Consolidation - belonged to the largest coal mines in the Ruhr area. The shafts were spread throughout Gelsenkirchen.
Aachen
The Cockerillstraße in Stolberg, Germany, already reveals that the Cockerill family also established itself near Aachen in the early nineteenth century.
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