ZOLLVEREIN: From Europe’s most productive colliery to centre for the creative industry.

UNESCOWORLDHERITAGEZOLLVEREIN

BARBARA WENDLINGHEAD OF DEPARTMENTZOLLVEREIN BUSINESS.SERVICESSTIFTUNG ZOLLVEREIN

GERMANY > NORTH-RHINE-WESTPHALIA > RUHR> EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2010

> ESSEN > WORLD HERITAGE ZOLLVEREIN

Rendering by: RUHR.2010

1847 First vertical construction1932 Start of operations of shaft XII1963 Opening of coking plant1986 Last shift at Zollverein coal mine1989 First decade of refurbishment starts1993 Closure of coking plant2001 Inscription on UNESCO World Heritage List

Urban masterplan by Rem Koolhaas, OMA

Start of second decade of reprogramming EU large-scale project starts: Ruhr Museum, ENTRY2006 exhibition, Zollverein School, designparc, strategy for small-medium- sized enterprises, Zollverein Parc

FORMER COAL MINE AND COKING PLANT

PRESERVATION THROUGH CONVERSION>100 hectare-site>253 historical buildings>approx. 120 already redesigned and reused>among them 100% of area is rented

ZOLLVEREIN EU LARGE-SCALE PROJECT > Investment of 156.742.512 EURO from 2001 til

August 2008> Funds from :

> NRW EU Objective-2 Programme (2000-2006) including 30 million EURO from the European

Regional Development Fund (ERDF)> NRW town planning development programme> Emscher-Lippe ecology programme by NRW

> Approx. 8,5 Million EURO for supplementary projects

ZOLLVEREIN CENTRE OF CREATIVE INDUSTRIES

> 170 enterprises in total> approx. 1000 new employments> mostly in the field of services > approx. 70 % of Zollverein companies belong

directly to the creative industries > 10 of 11 segments of creative industries are on the

site> Stiftung Zollverein most important player in the

cultural and creative industries of Zollverein

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