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The Ruhr Museum at Zollverein

  • The identity of Germany’s Ruhr area has been shaped by industrialisation, which transformed the former rural landscape and small towns into a centre of the industrial revolution on the continent. However, the history of civilization in the Ruhr stretches back to the early middle ages. All this is examined at the Ruhr Museum Essen, including the preconditions for and the serious consequences of industrialisation in in terms of the environment, as well as the long and largely unknown history ofThe identity of Germany’s Ruhr area has been shaped by industrialisation, which transformed the former rural landscape and small towns into a centre of the industrial revolution on the continent. However, the history of civilization in the Ruhr stretches back to the early middle ages. All this is examined at the Ruhr Museum Essen, including the preconditions for and the serious consequences of industrialisation in in terms of the environment, as well as the long and largely unknown history of the Ruhr area before industrial times.show moreshow less

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Document Type:Article
DOI:https://doi.org/10.25626/0025
Creator and project details
Author:Ulrich BorsdorfGND
Editor:Joachim von PuttkamerGND, Michal KopečekGND, Włodzimierz BorodziejGND
Publishing Institution:Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung – Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
Title details
Title (English):The Ruhr Museum at Zollverein
Parent Title (English):Cultures of History Forum
Release Date:2020/08/24
Date of Publication (online):2020/02/20
Date of first Publication:2014/06/05
Language:English
Subject indexing
DDC-Classification:9 Geschichte und Geografie / 90 Geschichte / 900 Geschichte und Geografie
Collections:Cultures of History Forum (Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena)
Tag:Germany; Ruhr area; industrialisation; local history; memory; museum; public history
GND Keyword:Deutschland; Ruhrgebiet; Industrialisierung; Ruhr Museum; Umweltbelastung
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File Size:23065 KB
MIME-Type:application/pdf
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