Germany

Europes largest car plant, built beside the planned Stadt des KdF-Wagens before the war and rescued afterward by the Beetle. Volks...

Daimlers flagship plant near Stuttgart, building the S-Class and other top models since the early 1950s. Tens of thousands work in...

Carl Zeiss opened a small workshop for microscopes and, with physicist Ernst Abbe and glass chemist Otto Schott, created modern op...

Friedrich Krupps cast steel works grew into the Essen cannon works that armed Prussia and imperial Germany, a company town unto it...

A complete iron smelting works preserved on the Saar: blast furnaces, cowper stoves, sinter plant, and conveyor galleries frozen a...

Thyssen blast furnaces shut down in 1985 and reborn as Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, the flagship of Ruhr industrial heritage. Di...

The first hard paste porcelain works in Europe, founded after alchemist Johann Friedrich Bottger unlocked the Chinese arcanum unde...

The largest chemical complex on earth: about ten square kilometers of interconnected plants, power stations, and docks. From coal ...

August Borsig beat Stephenson imports in a famous 1844 trial and his Berlin works became one of the largest locomotive builders of...

The most beautiful coal mine in the world: Shaft 12, a cathedral of steel and brick in the New Objectivity style by architects Sch...

A family shipyard founded in 1795 in the inland town of Papenburg, now one of the leading builders of large cruise ships. Its gian...

Founded in 1747 under the Bavarian elector and moved to a pavilion at Nymphenburg Palace in Munich in 1761, where it still works. ...

BASF built this plant near Merseburg during the First World War to make ammonia by the Haber-Bosch process for explosives and fert...