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Völklingen Ironworks

Kategorie
Cultural
Land
Germany
Einschreibungsjahr
1994
Kriterien
(ii)(iv)
UNESCO-ID
687

Beschreibung

The ironworks, which cover some 6 ha, dominate the city of Völklingen. Although they have recently gone out of production, they are the only intact example, in the whole of western Europe and North America, of an integrated ironworks that was built and equipped in the 19th and 20th centuries and has remained intact.