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Municipal forest of Buer (Buerscher Stadtwald) A former mining settlement. Gelsenkirchen (UK: / ˈ ɡ ɛ l z ən k ɪər x ən /, US: / ˌ ɡ ɛ l z ən ˈ k ɪər x ən /, [3] [4] [5] German: [ˌɡɛlzn̩ˈkɪʁçn̩] ⓘ; Westphalian: Gelsenkiärken) is the 25th-most populous city of Germany and the 11th-most populous in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia with 262,528 (2016) inhabitants.
Gallery of Beauties The Nymphenburg Palace seen from its park. The Gallery of Beauties (German: Schönheitengalerie) is a collection of 38 portraits of the most beautiful women from the nobility and bourgeoisie of Munich, Germany, gathered by King Ludwig I of Bavaria in the south pavilion of his Nymphenburg Palace. [1]
The following pictures have all been featured pictures at Commons:Featured pictures. Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Germany Saturn V and Wernher von Braun
Bertha Beckmann (1815–1901), possibly Germany's first professional woman photographer; Katharina Behrend (1888–1973), see Netherlands; Sibylle Bergemann (1941–2010), chronicler of social life in East Germany; Ella Bergmann-Michel (1896–1971), abstract painter, photographer, filmmaker
In 1928, the adjoining cities of Buer, Gelsenkirchen, and Horst merged to form Gelsenkirchen-Buer, which was renamed Gelsenkirchen in 1930. [ 1 ] The Scholven /Buer synthetic oil plant was a bombing target of the Oil Campaign of World War II [ 2 ] The Buer town hall however survived in nearly original form.
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Eight people were temporarily detained following a brawl between Serbia and England fans in Gelsenkirchen ahead of the two countries' opening European Championship match, police said Monday.
About 2000 Hungarian Jewish women were held in this subcamp, and were given the task of clearing the area of the Gelsenberg Benzin AG of rubble in the summer 1944. Approximately 150 of them were killed during heavy bombing attacks on the hydrogenation plant in September 1944. A few badly injured survivors were taken to Gelsenkirchen hospitals.