Iron and steel

The monastic ruins of Tintern Abbey rest on the banks of the Wye in Wales. Like the abbey of Villers-la-Ville in Belgium, Tintern Abbey was populated by monks of the Cistercian Order.

With the dynamiting of the two blast furnaces of the Usine de Senelle, the last witnesses of the steel basin in Longwy, France, disappeared in the summer of 1991. Or almost everything.

Only a dozen pylons remain of the cable car between the iron mine in Öttingen, France and the blast furnaces of Terres Rouges in Differdange, Luxembourg.

While the Krupp family ruled the roost in the German Ruhr area, the Stumm family was in charge in the Saarland. The cradle of their steel empire was in Neunkirchen.