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Logo of the city of Essen. Essen (German pronunciation: ⓘ) is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany.Its population of 586,608 makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and Dortmund, as well as the tenth-largest city of Germany.
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.
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 Abbey (German: Stift Essen) was a community of secular canonesses for women of high nobility that formed the nucleus of modern-day Essen, Germany.
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 the third tallest city hall in Germany after New Town Hall (Leipzig) and Hamburg City Hall.
The Diocese of Essen (Latin: Dioecesis Essendiensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Germany, founded on 1 January 1958. The Bishop of Essen is seated in Essen Cathedral ( Essener Dom or Essener Münster ), once the church of Essen Abbey , and over one thousand years old.
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.
The seven-branched candelabrum in Essen Cathedral corresponds to the Jewish menorah and derives from the same Old Testament in the second book of Moses (Exodus 37:17-24). In early Christianity , the "seven" symbolized the unity of the divine and the earthly, as it united the "three" of the Trinity and the "four" of the earthly cardinal points.