Industrial Heritage

For almost a century, the Veuve Van Enschodt bridge over the Rupel was the only connection between the Antwerp municipalities of Klein Willebroek and Boom.

Trains have been thundering over the Vierendeel bridge in Grammene between Deinze and De Panne for over a century.

In 1874, a cross-border railway connected the Belgian town of Péruwelz with the French municipality of Anzin. The aim was to export coal from the northern French mining basin to Belgium.

Today, no trains run along the former railway line 109 between Mons and Chimay, but historic steam locomotives and diesel and electric railways of the local railways in Belgium do.

One of the most exceptional mining complexes in French Alsace, where potassium or potash was brought to the surface, is the Carreau Rodolphe.

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?

You can still find a monumental remnant of a nineteenth-century lime kiln complex along the Scheldt.

A water tower in the Walloon Brabant village of Virginal-Samme still recalls the architecture of the 1940s.

After over half a century, a double staircase climbing up the railway embankment is the only reminder of the vanished Tertre Charbonnage train station.

A century ago, between 1923 and 1924, the Grandes Molinos Vascos was one of the first reinforced concrete structures on the banks of the Nervión River in the Spanish Basque country.