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Germany's largest oil refinery is located in Karlsruhe, at the western edge of the city, directly on the river Rhine. The Technologieregion Karlsruhe is a loose confederation of the region's cities in order to promote high tech industries; today, about 20% of the region's jobs are in research and development .
A city is displayed in bold if it is a state or federal capital, and in italics if it is the most populous city in the state. The table below contains the following information: The city rank by population as of 31 December 2021, as estimated by the Federal Statistical Office of Germany; The city name; The name of the state in which the city ...
The city, called Willemstad, is still entirely surrounded by its seven sided city wall. Wijk bij Duurstede: Utrecht One or more individual structures (Bastions, gates, towers, etc.) remain. A portion of the moat remains, as do several fragments of the city wall facing the riverside. One city gate still stands as a windmill has been built on top ...
Shortly after the Thirty Years' War, Schriesheim's dramatically reduced population (only 20% had survived the Thirty Years' War) was purely Reformed, that is Calvinist, but in the years that followed, Catholics, Lutherans and Jews moved in alongside the favored Reformed Swiss immigrants to replenish the population.
Division of the province between Poland, Weimar Germany and Free City Danzig after World War I; West Prussia Area in 1910 in km 2 Share of territory Population in 1910 After WW1 part of: Notes Given to: 25,580 km 2 [17] 100% 1,703,474 Divided between: Poland: 15,900 km 2 [17] 62% [18] 57% [18] Pomeranian Voivodeship [Note 1] Free City Danzig ...
The region included some villages and castles, and was mainly agrarian: its loess soil made it one of the richer parts of western Germany. The free imperial city of Dortmund was the trading and cultural centre, lying on the Hellweg, an important east–west trading route, that also brought prosperity to the town of Duisburg.
In 2022, Germany's homeownership rate was 46.7%. [1] During World War II, 2.25 million homes were destroyed with another two million damaged, reducing overall housing stocks by 20%. In 1949, West Germany enacted its first housing law and by 1961 had reduced its housing shortage from 5.5 million units to only 658,000.
The Karlsruhe tramway network (German: Straßenbahnnetz Karlsruhe) is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Karlsruhe, a city in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Opened in 1877, the network has been operated since 1997 by Verkehrsbetriebe Karlsruhe GmbH (VBK), a company owned by the city of ...