The Ermen & Engels power plant is on winter break until 23.3.2024 and is closed.
During guided tours, group work or activity-oriented options which appeal to all the senses, children and adolescents get to know the historic Kraftwerk Ermen & Engels (Power Plant) and the Oelchenshammer (Forging Hammer) and develop motoric and social competence through the museum education programmes.
Options at the Kraftwerk Ermen & Engels (Power Plant)
During a guided tour around the Power Plant of the former cotton spinning mill the children learn how electricity was generated with turbines, water power and a steam engine in one of the first electric Power Plants in Germany and how this changed the work in the factory and the everyday lives of the people.
Age: 6 – 19 years / 1st – 13th class
(The programme is adapted to the age of the group)
Duration: approx. 1 hour
Price per group: 40 € per group
We recommend that two tours be booked for groups with more than 20 participants and the group split up accordingly.
Electricity comes from the plug socket. But how does it get there, how is it generated and what does that mean for the environment and for the wallet? These are questions which the children and adolescents can actively study at the LVR-Industriemuseum Kraftwerk Ermen & Engels (Power Plant): in the Electricity Workshop.
During this guided tour the children and adolescents experience one of the last functioning water-powered forging hammers in the Oberbergisches Land in a unique manner. With the idyllic mill pond, the waterwheels, hammers and chimneys, the complex which is more than 200 years old presents a lively picture of how steel was once produced using fire and water.
Age: 6 – 19 years / primary schools and secondary schools (the programme is adapted to the age of the group)
Duration: approx. 1 hour
Price: 50 € per group (40 € for school classes)
During this guided tour the children and adolescents experience one of the last functioning water-powered forging hammers in the Oberbergisches Land in a unique manner. With the idyllic mill pond, the waterwheels, hammers and chimneys, the complex which is more than 200 years old presents a lively picture of how steel was once produced using fire and water.
Age: 6 – 19 years / primary schools and secondary schools (the programme is adapted to the age of the group)
Duration: approx. 1 hour
Price: 50 € per group (40 € for school classes)
The museum is an out-of-school place of learning useful for all types of schools and classes and for excursions, project weeks, interdisciplinary learning and events for the (open) full-day school.
We would be pleased to advise you personally on how to integrate the options which we offer into your lessons and we can also compile a special programme for you. We also offer teacher further training upon request. Contact us under Tel. 02263/92850 (Mon-Fri 9-16 hours).
The LVR-Industriemuseum Kraftwerk Ermen & Engels (Power Plant) is a partner of KulturScouts Bergisches Land. Girls and boys from school classes 5 to 10 can find out at five interactive stations how power is generated and how it can be used sensibly.
