Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park
Tourismus NRW e.V., Johannes Höhn, Industrial panoramas can be seen in many places in the Ruhr region. The outline of the Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park is particularly beautiful at dawn.

Industrial culture in NRWVenues for art, culture and the creative industries

NRW's industrial heritage is huge: no other federal state has such a wealth and variety of industrial monuments. Themed routes lead right across the state to collieries, gasometers, coking plants, blast furnaces, production sites and hoists. The disused industrial sites not only keep industrial history alive, but also bear witness to structural change and today provide a setting for art, culture and the creative industries. Follow in the footsteps of industry and experience the creative novelties of industrial culture in your NRW!

  • Zollverein World Heritage Site
    Tourismus NRW e.V., Johannes Höhn, The Zollverein colliery and coking plant were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List on 14 December 2001 as the ‘Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex’.
    Smelters, collieries, coking plants
    Ironworks, collieries and coking plants are witnesses to NRW's mining history. Formerly workplaces, today they are places of interest for exhibition, history and culture fans.
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  • Looms in the Textiltechnikum Mönchengladbach
    Tourismus NRW e.V., At the beginning of the 20th century, 20,000 mechanical looms clattered in the factories of today's textile technology center. Some of them can still be admired by guests
    Craft, power station, hoist
    From the glassworks to the textile factory to the ship lift: industrial culture is diverse in NRW. Former production sites and logistics centers are now museums.
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  • On the Haniel slag heap in Bottrop, guests will find the Totems artwork by Agustin Ibarrola and an amphitheater for events
    Tourismus NRW e.V., On the Haniel slag heap in Bottrop, guests will find the Totems artwork by Agustin Ibarrola and an amphitheater for events
    Landmarks
    Slag heaps and gasometers are landmarks in North Rhine-Westphalia and evidence of the industrial past. Over the years, they have been transformed into cultural sites.
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