HERITAGE RECORD · 975

Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen

埃森的关税同盟煤矿工业区

The official record, selection criteria and sourced cultural context.

World Heritage record

The 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.

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Wikidata reference

QIDQ122026 ↗

Inception1847

Administrative areaQ54803602

WikipediaZollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex ↗

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Selection criteria

This property was inscribed under the following World Heritage Convention criteria.

(ii)An important interchange of human values in architecture, technology, arts, town planning or landscape design.

(iii)A unique or exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or civilisation.

Cultural archive

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Brief synthesis The Zollverein XII Coal Mine Industrial Complex is an important example of a European primary industry of great economic significance in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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