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Essen has a population of 586,608 and is the 2nd largest city in Ruhr area after Dortmund and the 10th largest city in Germany. Essen has also the largest urban density with cities such as Bochum, Gelsenkirchen and Oberhausen borders this city.
971 – Mathilde, granddaughter of Otto I becomes abbess of Essen Abbey. 1012 – Sophia, daughter of Otto II becomes abbottess of the Essen Stift. 1041 – Essen receives rights to a market. 1244 – The association of the ministeriales of the Essen Abbey and the citizens of the town of Essen arrange for the Essen town walls to be erected.
The Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region (German: Metropolregion Rhein-Ruhr) is the largest metropolitan region in Germany, with over ten million inhabitants. [2] A polycentric conurbation with several major urban concentrations, the region covers an area of 7,110 square kilometres (2,750 sq mi), entirely within the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Museum Folkwang is a major collection of 19th- and 20th-century art in Essen, Germany. The museum was established in 1922 by merging the Essener Kunstmuseum, which was founded in 1906, and the private Folkwang Museum of the collector and patron Karl Ernst Osthaus in Hagen, founded in 1902. [2]
The Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex (German Zeche Zollverein) is a large former industrial site in the city of Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.The first coal mine on the premises was founded in 1847, and mining activities took place from 1851 until December 23, 1986.
Essen City Hall (German: Rathaus Essen) is a 23-storey, 106 m (348 ft) skyscraper in Essen, Germany.When completed on 1 July 1979, it was one of the tallest city halls in Europe and is currently after New Town Hall (Leipzig) and Hamburg City Hall the third tallest city hall in Germany.
Essen Hauptbahnhof (German for "Essen main station") is a railway station in the city of Essen in western Germany. It is situated south of the old town centre, next to the A 40 motorway . It was opened in 1862 by the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn .
Essen Minster (German: Essener Münster), since 1958 also Essen Cathedral (Essener Dom) is the seat of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Essen, the "Diocese of the Ruhr", founded in 1958. The church, dedicated to Saints Cosmas and Damian and the Blessed Virgin Mary , stands on the Burgplatz in the centre of the city of Essen , Germany.