Industrial Heritage

In 1951, the Hydraulic Laboratory De Voorst settled in the Dutch Noordoostpolder. There, scientists had a constant supply and drainage of water to test out scale models for hydraulic works.

A mechanical ore-washing plant was also established in the late nineteenth century near the Monteponi mining complex.

A steel water tower marks the site of the long-defunct coal mine Carolus Magnus in the Aachen mining district.

The iron headframe was preserved on the site where the French Compagnie des Mines de Liévin laid its first coal mine in 1858.

A ruined limestone kiln complex recalls the late-nineteenth-century exploitation of limestone at the Welsh quarry Gilwern.

A cooling tower rests next to steel company Carsid's mothballed power plant.

Four concrete cooling towers flank the former Beringen mine power plant, the only preserved mine cooling towers in the Limburg mining region.

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.

Flemish workers flocked to Mouscron during the interwar to work in textile factories. The city, therefore, had to pull out all the stops to cope with the growing population.