15.05.2008

"No comparable project in the whole world!"

"I know of no comparable project in the whole world where one can go so far into its mediation and staging as well as the maintenance and transformation of industrial cultural grounds as the World Cultural Heritage Site Voelklinger Hütte (in German spelled: Völklingen). The World Cultural Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte takes peak position in the international world of industrial cultural projects." (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ebert, Professor of Industrial Heritage Management, Istanbul)

At the time in 1994, when the Völklinger Ironworks was officially nominatedas a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site, no one thought that it would become one of the Europe's most important monuments of industrial culture.Today the World Cultural Heritage Site Völklinger Ironworks is a prominentanchor point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage – ERIH.

The World Cultural Heritage Site Völklinger Ironworks is now one of the favourite 100 places to visit in Germany (Baedeker publishers) and one of the 100 most important cultural monuments and is an outstanding location in the landscape of ideas (DuMont travel publishers).

Nearly 2 million people have visited the World Cultural Heritage Site Völklinger Ironworks up to the present day: twice as many as the actual population of Saarland.

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