The Route of industrial culture - industrial culture on Volme and Ennepe lists stations of the Industrial Heritage Route along the Volme and Ennepe. The beginnings of industrialization took place in these side valleys of the Ruhr.
background
| Theme route 9 Industrial culture on Volme and Ennepe | |
 One of Anchor points: Hohenhof in Hagen | |
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| RIK | Theme route 9 |
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| Wikipedia | RIK # Route 9 |
The route of industrial culture represents as Holiday route in the Ruhr area special industrial monuments and areas of the industrial landscape in the form of road routes for motor vehicles and also for that bicycle in front. In addition to the Anchor points, which form the backbone of the route, convey the Themed routes always a special topic, a local area or something special in the history of the Ruhr area.
The themed route with the number 9 "Industrial culture on the Volme and Ennepe" consists of five individual tours in the Hagen and Ennepetal regions and in the Sauerland in the Mark region. These are small, interesting locations on the south-eastern edge of the Ruhr area, which often use the water power of the streams to drive mills, forging hammers, and rolling mills. The area was thus the nucleus of the later iron and steel industry in the Ruhr area. Important names in connection with this route Freiherrn vom Stein, Friedrich Harkort, Ernst Osthaus.
Volme and Ennepe are tributaries of the Dysentery, to which there is a separate themed route with the number 12 "Past and present of the Ruhr" gives.
preparation
The cities touched by the route Breckerfeld, Ennepetal, Hagen, Herdecke, Schwelm, Weather offer good service facilities and accommodation. If that's not enough or because it is fully booked or too expensive due to local events, you can go to the surrounding cities in the Ruhr area and Sauerland dodge.
Information on the individual stations of theme route 9 can be found in the official RIK travel guide (see literature), the respective anchor point or the corresponding one website.
The anchor points are also to be understood as the first point of contact for information seekers:
- 1 Hohenhof (Branch of the Osthaus Museum), 58093 Hagen-Eppenhausen, headband 10. Tel.: 49(0)2331 55990. At the beginning of the 19th century, the Hohenhof was a residential building, a total work of art and the hub of the Folkwang movement (Hagen Impulse) around the patron Karl Ernst Osthaus (1874-1921). Today it conveys the life's work and the history of the founder of the museum and publishing house, cultural reformer and artist colony farmer Osthaus.Open: Sat & Sun 11 am-6pm.Price: adults € 3, family € 6, children and reduced € 1.50.
- 2 LWL open-air museum Hagen (Westphalian State Museum for Crafts and Technology), 58091 Hagen, Mäckingerbach. Tel.: 49(0)2331 78070, Fax: (0)2331 7807120, Email: [email protected]. Various historic houses have been moved to the 42 hectare site. In the buildings there are numerous old workshops (blacksmiths, copper hammer mills, goldsmiths' workshops, zinc rolling mills, paper mills, sawmills, agate grinding shops, bakeries, skinning shops,.), In which demonstrations of the old techniques take place in some cases.Open: April to October Tue-Sun and Fe 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Sun until 6:00 p.m.Price: adults 7 €, children from 7 years. € 2, family € 15, LWL family annual ticket € 35.
getting there
The southern edge of the Ruhr area is easy to reach, nearby airports are in Dusseldorf or Dortmund, both have rail connections. The motorways, federal highways and railway lines are close to the Ruhr, along the tributary valleys run federal or state roads and some railway lines. The main train stations in Duisburg, Mülheim, Essen, Hagen and Dortmund are important hubs with long-distance connections. There are several motorways for motor vehicles (A 1, A 3, A 40, A 43, A 44, A 45) with corresponding departures, important: the Ruhr area is largely one Environmental zone, which only allows the entry of vehicles with certain badges (current status can be found in the respective city article under arrival!). You can do that by bike Ruhr valley cycle path use to drive close to the Ruhr and then turn into the side valleys.
Here we go
Tour 1: Industrial culture in Hagen and on Enneperstraße
- Hohenhof (Anchor point, see above)
- Houses on the headband and Villa Cuno
- Walddorfstrasse textile workers' settlement
- Elbershallen
- 3 Osthaus Museum, 58095 Hagen, Museumsplatz 3 (for GPS: Hochstr. 73). Tel.: 49(0)2331 2073138, Fax: (0)2331 207402, Email: [email protected]. Open: Mon closed, Tue, Wed, Fri 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thu 1 p.m. to 8 p.m., Sat / Sun 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.Price: Combined tickets in the Kunstquartier: adults. € 6, children and concessions € 2, family € 12.
- Stadtgarten Hagen - a place to relax between the city center and the city forest
- Buschey Cemetery
- Hagen Central Station
- Villa Post
- Cuno settlement
- Villa Springmann
- Lehnkering warehouse
- Distillery Eversbusch - Here the as Hasper Maggi known Double juniper produced.
- Viaduct of the Rhenish Railway
- Brandt rusk factory
- Former grain distillery Niedernberg and Krüner and Villa Niedernberg
- Collegiate house and distillery Saure
- Kruiner Tunnel - Tunnel between Ennepetal and Gevelsberg, which leads through a railway wall that was built up in the 19th century.
- Ennepetal station
Tour 2: Schwelm, Ennepetal, Breckerfeld and the surrounding area
- Martfeld House Museum
- Piano factory Rud. Ibach son
- Schwelm Brewery
- Heilenbeck dam
- Ennepetalsperre
- Krenz hammer
- Industry Museum Ennepetal
- Road Industry Museum Ennepetal
- Haspe-Voerde-Breckerfeld small railway line
- Hasper dam
- Mühlenhof Breckerfeld
- Glörtalsperre
Tour 3: In the south of Hagen
- Hagen open-air museum (Anchor point, see above)
- Long squad, Hagen-Eilpe, Riegestraße 6-18. Almost 350 year old row of houses (built 1666), former apartments and workshops of the Eilper blade forge, lovingly and detailed renovated half-timbered houses, lined up side by side along the Selbeck brook (Lange Riege = long row).
- 4 Historical Center Hagen, City Museum / City Archives, Wippermann-Passage, Eilper Strasse 71-75, 58091 Hagen. Tel.: 49 (0)2331 207 2740, Fax: 49 (0)2331 207 2447, Email: [email protected]. Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- crematorium
- Paper mill and Villa Vorster
- Foreman brewery
- Goldberg tunnel
- German Cold Rolling Museum
- Cold rolling industry in the Nahmertal
Tour 4: In the footsteps of Friedrich Harkort
- The listed building today House Harkorten in the Hagen district of Haspe still belongs to the former entrepreneurial family Harkort. The family resided in this manor complex, which is considered to be important in terms of art history for the Bergisch Rococo style.
- In the Harkort's factory Railway and bridge material as well as the Viennese rotunda were manufactured in the 19th century. It is considered the most important factory in the family.
- The Harkort coal railway was one of the first railway lines in Germany. Until 1966 coal and slag were transported through this.
- Castle weather and Harkorthaus
- Schede house
Tour 5: Up the Ruhr from Wetter to the Lenne estuary
- Schlebuscher Erbstollen
- Volmarstein community waterworks
- Harkort power plant
- Monument of the Minister Stein at the Rathaus Wetter
- Villa headmaster
- Villa Bönnhoff
- Herdecke energy industry hiking trail
- Herdecke Ruhr viaduct
- Hengstey run-of-river power plant
- Koepchenwerk pumped storage power plant
- Hengstey waterworks
- House end
- Niedernhof
- Bushmill
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trips
literature
- ; Regional association Ruhr (Ed.): Industrial culture on Volme and Ennepe; Vol.9. eat, 2003 (2nd edition), Industrial heritage route.
