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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.
Gelsenkirchen-Schalke is a quarter of Gelsenkirchen. In its current boundaries, it has an area of 2.968 square kilometres and 21,510 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2022). [ 1 ] Thanks to the local football club FC Schalke 04 , the district is at least as well known nationally as the city of Gelsenkirchen.
English: Tramway network of Bochum and Gelsenkirchen, Germany Deutsch: Topographischer Netzplan des Straßenbahnnetzes in Bochum und Gelsenkirchen This map was created from OpenStreetMap project data, collected by the community.
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.
The Bochum/Gelsenkirchen tramway network (German: Straßenbahnnetz Bochum/Gelsenkirchen) is a network of tramways focused on Bochum and Gelsenkirchen, two cities in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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.
Signpost of twin towns in Celle Map of Germany. This is a list of municipalities in Germany which have standing links to local communities in other countries, or in other parts of Germany (mostly across the former inner German border), known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
Map of the complete Rhine-Ruhr Stadtbahn systems network (Outdated) A tram of the Rhine-Ruhr Stadtbahn in Essen The Rhine-Ruhr Stadtbahn (German: Stadtbahn Rhein-Ruhr) is an umbrella system of all of the Stadtbahn lines included in the integrated public transport network of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR), which covers the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area in western Germany.