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Völklingen Ironworks

Furnaces and Cowper Stoves at Völklingen.

The Völklingen Ironworks is a former blast-furnace complex located in the German town of Völklingen, Saarland. Pig iron production occurred at the site from 1882 through 1986. As one of the only intact ironworks surviving from the 19th and early-20th centuries in Europe and North America, it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994 because of its exceptional preservation and its testimony to ferrous metallurgy and the Industrial Revolution.
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GrahamH said:

Timely! This site: whc.unesco.org/en/list/687 Thanks for showing.
I was reading yesterday about Sloss Iron Works, www.slossfurnaces.com/history in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
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