Gazi University Journal of Science Part B: Art Humanities Design and Planning, cilt.11, sa.1, ss.197-207, 2023 (Hakemli Dergi)
Industrial culture has been evaluated as a part of collective memory in Europe since the 1970s
and has been included in the conservation area. Coal and lignite mines, which are widely found
in industry-leading Germany, have also been urban artifacts that have an important place in the
collective memory of the German society. These structures, programmatic elements and their
landscape have been re-functionalized with a wide variety of functions for the conservation of
industrial culture. Ferropolis Golpa Nord and Bitterfeld Goitzsche Landscape Park, which are the
subject of this article, are examples of how the giant pits opened by surface mining are evaluated
to become rich re-use areas. The two routes of European Industrial Heritage Route ERIH and the
Coal Steam Light will be evaluated as a system of connecting inspiring projects in the present
paper.