Abandoned Industrial Sites

Images of historical factories and mining structures, presenting decaying infrastructure and remnants of past industrial activity in various settings.

Saxon Industrial Museum, Knappenrode Energy Factory

The briquette factory is a piece of the region's industrial history. Coal from the open-cast mine in Wyhra used to be processed into briquettes here. In the 1970s, the plant was used to generate heat for the Bockwitz opencast mine

Glueckauf colliery, winding tower, pit bank and engine house, potash mine, Sonderhausen, Kyffhaeuserkreis, Thuringia, Germany, Europe

Ziegelhuette Ziegelhuette Copyright: xZoonar.com/VolkerxRauchx 21185372

Europe, Scandinavia, Sweden. Goeteborg. Electric central. Rosenlundsverket

Dortmund, Hansa coking plant

Essen, Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex, Shaft XII

Ehemaliger Lastenkran auf Schienen im Csepel Werk, Ungarn *** former Load Crane at Rails at Csepel Plant, Hungary 1033902845

Saxon Industrial Museum, Knappenrode Energy Factory

Former Thyssen AG steelworks, blast furnaces

Industrial factory in Duisburg, Germany. Industrial factory in Duisburg, Germany. Public park Landschaftspark, landmark and tourist attraction. Copyright: xZoonar.com/NIKOLAYxOKHITINx 14578817

Mining tower of the Asse" mine, a research mine for radioactive waste near Wolfenbuettel in Lower Saxony Germany, grey sky

Residential area Duisburg-Bruckhausen, behind industrial scenery with blast furnace of Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Germany, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Essen, Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex, shaft tower,

Construction sites of the Lingner area on the former Roboton site. The urban quarter Am Blueherpark is now being built there

Old long brick chimney against blue sky,old factory industrie with barbed wire. Old long brick chimney against blue sky,old factory industrie

Lage, Brickworks, LWL Industrial Museum

Dortmund, Westphalian Industrial Museum, Zollern II/IV Colliery

View of the Voelklinger Huette, former ironworks, Voelklingen, Saarland, Germany, Europe

Europe, Belgium, Charleroi. Marcinelle, Le Bois du Casier

Zeche Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex, Shaft 12 Essen Ruhr area North Rhine-Westphalia, North Rhine Germany

Turntable with 15 permanent ring engine sheds, former railway depot, Deutsches Dampflokmuseum Museum, Neuenmarkt, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Former loading crane, Osthafen bridge, Osthafen, Ostend, Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany, Europe

Closed Anna coal mine in Pszow, Poland, Europe

Germany, Essen, view to Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex

Industrial factory in Duisburg, Germany. Public park Landschaftspark, landmark and tourist attraction.

Steag combined heat and power plant in Herne-Baukau

Honey factory, Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg, Germany, Europe

Track renovation at the Dresden railway junction. Dresden, Saxony, Germany, Europe

World Cultural Heritage Site Völklingen Ironworks, Ore Square, Völklingen, Saar, Saar Valley, Saarland, Germany

Industrial factory in Duisburg, Germany. Industrial factory in Duisburg, Germany. Public park Landschaftspark, landmark and tourist attraction. Copyright: xZoonar.com/NIKOLAYxOKHITINx 14723841

Industrial factory in Duisburg, Germany. Industrial factory in Duisburg, Germany. Public park Landschaftspark, landmark and tourist attraction. Copyright: xZoonar.com/NIKOLAYxOKHITINx 14750008

Sugar refinery, Barbados

The Louise briquette factory in Domsdorf, a district of the southern Brandenburg town of Uebigau-Wahrenbrück in the Elbe-Elster district, is the oldest briquette factory in Europe and a technical monument. Steam storage locomotive

Zeche Zollverein, former coal mine, UNESCO World Heritage Site, headframe, Shaft 1-2-8 and Shaft 12, Ruhrmuseum at the back, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Major construction site, Landesarchiv NRW, North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive, Germany's largest archive building, Innenhafen harbour, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Tui Brewery, Mangatainoka, Wairarapa, North Island, New Zealand

Renaturation of the Isar River, European Patent Organisation and Deutsches Museum at back, Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Brick factory. The old factory. Industrial landscape. Brick pipes.

LWL Industrial Museum Zeche Zollern, Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Motala Verkstad, the cradle of Swedish industry near Motala on the Goeta Canal

Medicine Hat, Alberta - July 11, 2021: The historic Medalta Potteries factory has been refurbished and turned in to a museum & national historic site

Double strut frame with machine hall in Consol Park, industrial monument, former Consolidation mine, Gelsenkirchen, Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Medicine Hat, Alberta - July 11, 2021: The historic Medalta Potteries factory has been refurbished and turned in to a museum & national historic site

Old industrial plant with shaft framework, surrounded by lush green vegetation and extensive grounds, Westerholt, Herten Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Novaky, thermal power plant in Slovakia,

Coking plant, Unesco world heritage site Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex, Essen, Germany, Europe

A historical factory that house the first manufacturer of automo

Zeche Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex, Shaft 12 Essen Ruhr area North Rhine-Westphalia, North Rhine Germany

Zeche Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex, Shaft 12 Essen Ruhr area North Rhine-Westphalia, North Rhine Germany

View of a mix of industrial buildings, cranes, and silos reflecting in the tranquil water under a blue sky with wispy clouds, Stadthafen, Muenster, Germany.

Collier Friedrich Heinrich Schacht 1/2 with laundry, demolition, headframe, Kamp-Lintfort, Lower Rhine, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

France, Ile de France, Seine-Saint-Denis, Saint-Ouen. Docks district. Saint-Ouen CPCU power plant. Cpcu terminal pellets

Medicine Hat, Alberta - July 11, 2021: The historic Medalta Potteries factory has been refurbished and turned in to a museum & national historic site

Neustädter Hafen is an inland port in Dresden, the capital of Saxony, on the eponymous Neustädter side of the Elbe in the Leipziger Vorstadt. It was the first port in Saxony with a connection to the railway network and has been a listed building since 1993. Decaying harbour crane

Factory facilities of the belt and strap weaving mill Gueth & Wolf, Guetersloh, East Westphalia, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

BUGA 97, coal mixing plant, coal bunker and footbridges

Dortmund, Hansa coking plant

Moabit cogeneration plant, Friedrich-Krause-Ufer, Moabit, Berlin, Germany, Europe

The Oelsnitz Ore Mountains Mining Museum

Industrial factory in Duisburg, Germany. Public park Landschaftspark, landmark and tourist attraction.

Glasebach Mine Visitor Mine in the Selketal Harz Mountains

Solvay Chemicals, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Europe

Old shiploader, boat loader for loading porphyry gravel from quarry onto riverboats on the Vaudemont Canal, Lessines, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium, Europe

Solingen, Hendrichs drop forge, LVR Industrial Museum

Circulating Plant Of Shaft 12 In The Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Combined heat and power plant Minden-North, Minden, East Westphalia, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Factory facilities of the belt and strap weaving mill Gueth & Wolf, Guetersloh, East Westphalia, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Crochet mill manufacturers in Rinteln

The briquette factory is a piece of the region's industrial history. Coal from the open-cast mine in Wyhra used to be processed into briquettes here. In the 1970s, the plant was used to generate heat for the Bockwitz opencast mine

The new bridge on the Pirna southern bypass will be 916 metres long, 70 metres high and require 7, 250 tonnes of steel. DEGES is building the 3.8 kilometre long route. The route leads from the 172a to the B 172 on the Sonnenstein near Krietzschwitz and is intended to relieve Pirna city centre of through traffic in the future. For this purpose, a 50 metre long and 140 tonne heavy pre-build spigot will be pushed from the abutment on the Sonnenstein over the pillars that are already in place. The final push has been successfully completed and now the finishing work is underway, Gottleuba Valley Bridge, Pirna, Saxony, Germany, Europe

Recycling aluminum car wheels at an old industrial site, Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland

Weighing a closed river lock with a resting river water and industrial buildings.

Papierfabrik Julius Schulte Soehne GmbH & Co. KG, Duesseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

New building area housing construction

Genk, mine with winding towers

Exclusion zone, in the uninhabitable 30-kilometre zone around the Chernobyl power plant and the workers' settlement of Pripyat, monument in front of the accident reactor of the nuclear power plant, Ukraine, Europe

A picture of the Lower Vítkovice industrial complex, with the GONG Hall, the Blast Furnace Pipes, the Water Reservoir and the Small World of Technology in the distance

Mining Museum in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Aerial view, Zeche Friedrich Heinrich 1-2 colliery, Kamp-Lintfort, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Allotment gardens in the residential area of Duisburg-Bruckhausen, behind industrial scenery with blast furnace of Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

World Heritage Voelklinger Huette ironworks industrial factory historic steel World Heritage Voelklinger Huette ironworks industrial factory historic steel Copyright: xZoonar.com/AndreasxMuthx 22591340

(Fagus) Works, Alfeld, Lower Saxony

The Himmelfahrt Fundgrube is a former ore mine in Freiberg. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Ore Mountains since 2019. The Himmelfahrt Fundgrube is the last permanently open mine in the Freiberg mining area. However, no ore has been mined since 1968. The TU Bergakademie Freiberg uses the Himmelfahrt Fundgrube with its Reiche Zeche and Alte Elisabeth shafts as a teaching and research mine and is the mine's operator. Since 1991, the Himmelfahrt Fundgru

Grimma flood protection wall under construction. After another flood in 2013, the construction of the not uncontroversial flood protection wall continues in Grimma

Blooming flowers near an industrial winding tower in front of a cloudy sky, mining tower of a disused colliery in the green Ruhr area, Herten, Germany, Europe

The hard coal-fired power plant - Grokraftwerk Mannheim, Mannheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Baustellencontainer Wohncontainer *** Site container Accommodation container 1098601283

Historical transformers in a transformer station, the electrical energy from the medium -voltage network with an electrical voltage of 10 kV to 36 kV is transformed to the 400/230 V used in low -voltage networks for general care.

Godthaab Hammervaerk Museum of Industry, forge of the former tool and agricultural equipment manufacturers Zinck, near Aalborg, northern Jutland, Denmark, Europe

Dortmund, Hansa coking plant

One of four new blast furnaces which produce 11.5 million tonnes of pig iron annually, ThyssenKrupp Steelworks, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Landscape with construction site and blue sky

Germany, Baden Wurttemberg, Sindelfingen, Construction site with cranes

Old crane and logs in Medvezshegorsk, Karelia, Russia

Salzgitter AG steelworks. Salzgitter AG, Avacon and Lime tree launch the operation of industrial hydrogen production based on electricity from wind power. With the operation of the Wind Hydrogen Salzgitter - WindH2 project, green hydrogen will be produced on the site of the Huettenwerk in the future, 12/04/2022

Coal mine 1923 by Erich Basarke, Mining Museum

View from the blast furnace, Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, formerly Meiderich Ironworks, Duisburg, Ruhr Area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Monument with winding wheel and lorries at mining, lorry, Luther city Eisleben, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Europe

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