From Simpli-City

to Multipli-City

Kurt C. Reinhardt DWBmemofaktur Zollverein

7° 2` 38`` East

51° 5` 8`` North

Where is Ruhr?

Ruhr

Germany

Northrhine-Westfalia

Ruhr 1840

Ruhr 1970

What was Ruhr?

An Icon of Change

from coal & coke

to culture, creativity & commerce

Brief DescriptionThe Zollverein industrial complex in Land Nordrhein-Westfalen consists of the complete infrastructure of a historical coal-mining site, with some 20th-century buildings of outstanding architectural merit. It constitutes remarkable material evidence of the evolution and decline of an essential industry over the past 150 years.

Justification for Inscription

Criterion (ii): The Zollverein XII Coal Mine Industrial Complex is an exceptional industrial monument by virtue of the fact that its buildings are outstanding examples of the application of the design concepts of the Modern Movement in architecture in a wholly industrial context.

Criterion (iii): The technological and other structures of Zollverein XII is representative of a crucial period in the development of traditional heavy industries in Europe, when sympathetic and positive use was made of architectural designs of outstanding quality.

ZOLLVEREIN spelled …

Arts & Architecture

Business & Beauty

Culture & Creativity

Design …

… Entrepreneurship, Event & Education

… Inspiration & Innovation

…Research & Recreation

…Tourism

….

…ZOLLVEREIN

1958

1996

2006

ARBEITEN IM PARK WOHNEN INDUSTRIEKULTUREMSCHERSYSTEMLANDSCHAFTSPARK

1993

1999

2002

Metamorphosis

Change by culture

Culture by change