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Blast Furnace Belval
Blast Furnace Belval
Blast Furnace Belval
Blast Furnace Belval
Blast Furnace Belval
Blast Furnace Belval
Blast Furnace Belval
Blast Furnace Belval
Blast Furnace Belval
Blast Furnace Belval
Blast Furnace Belval
Blast Furnace Belval
Blast Furnace Belval
Blast Furnace Belval
Blast Furnace Belval
Blast Furnace Belval
Blast Furnace Belval
Blast Furnace Belval
Blast Furnace Belval
Blast Furnace Belval
Blast Furnace Belval
Blast Furnace Belval
Blast Furnace Belval
Blast Furnace Belval
Phone:
+352 26 84 01

Address:
6 Avenue des Hauts-Fourneaux, 4362 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

This list of preserved historic blast furnaces contains decommissioned blast furnaces, of which substantial remains survive. The furnaces are preserved in a park or museum, or as a site otherwise open to visitors, or intended to become such. While pre-20th-century blast furnaces already have a long history of monument preservation, the perception of 20th century mass production blast furnace installations as industrial heritage is a comparably new trend. For a long time, it has been normal procedure for such a blast furnace to be demolished after being decommissioned and either be replaced with a newer, improved one, or to have the entire site demolished to make room for follow-up use of the area. It has only been in recent years that numerous countries have realized the value of blast furnaces as a part of their industrial history.Historically, the first such blast furnace not to be demolished stands in Starachowice, Poland , followed by the last blast furnace of Yahata Steel Works in Yahatahigashi-ku, Kitakyūshū, Japan and the Carrie Furnaces in Homestead, Pennsylvania in the United States . One of the two blast furnaces in Neunkirchen in Germany was the first blast furnace worldwide to be not just preserved, but actively refurbished for the purpose of preservation. For 20th-century mass production blast furnaces, the degree of accurate preservation versus integration into new structures, or even re-purposing, differs between the various sites. Colorful illumination installations at night are common.
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