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Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex
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Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex

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Rank: 1001 UNESCO
Wonder Type: Cultural
Country: Germany
Best of: Mine
Description:
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. [More Details]
This article uses material from UNESCO World Heritage List article "Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 IGO License.