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    The Ruhr (/ˈrʊər/ ROOR; German: Ruhrgebiet [ˈʁuːɐ̯ɡəˌbiːt] , also Ruhrpott German pronunciation: [ˈʁuːɐ̯pɔt] ), also referred to as the Ruhr area, sometimes...
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    Bochum (category Ruhr)
    city of the Ruhr after Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg. It lies at the centre of the Ruhr, Germany's largest urban area, in the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan...
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    ON Ruhrgas were later added. The Westenergie Tower in Essen is the tallest office building in the Ruhr region. In March 2024, the city of Essen adopted...
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  • actual boundaries of the Ruhr vary slightly depending on the source, but a good working definition is to define the Lippe and Ruhr as its northern and southern...
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    opened in the framework of RUHR.2010 – European Capital of Culture. Dortmunder U-Tower with roof construction Dortmunder U-Tower at dawn The formation of...
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    this shaft and especially its characteristic winding tower that were to become a symbol of the Ruhr area's structural change. In 1937, Zollverein employed...
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    Wetter (Ruhr) is a town in western Germany, in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the district of Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis. The river Ruhr flows through...
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    population) of the Ruhr as well as the largest city of Westphalia. It lies on the Emscher and Ruhr rivers (tributaries of the Rhine) in the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan...
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    A transmission tower (also electricity pylon, hydro tower, or pylon) is a tall structure, usually a lattice tower made of steel that is used to support...
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    on 15 February 1870. The building is constructed out of Ruhr sandstone with a three-storey tower on the entrance side. Like many monumental buildings of...
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    Ruhrpolen (redirect from Ruhr Polish)
    (German: [ˈʁuːɐ̯ˌpoːlən], “Ruhr Poles”) is a German umbrella term for the Polish migrants and their descendants who lived in the Ruhr area in western Germany...
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    Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area, the largest urban area in Germany and the fourth-largest on the European continent. The location of the Rhine-Ruhr at the...
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    Museum zur Vorgeschichte des Films (category Round towers)
    Lower Ruhr Valley Railway. The turntable of the roundhouse and other buildings of the RAW were destroyed in an air raid in 1943, but the water tower remained...
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    Examples were created all over the Ruhr, including industrial architecture (assembly halls, office buildings, water towers, etc.) and residential buildings...
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    Herdecke (category Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis)
    of Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It is located south of Dortmund in the Ruhr Area. Its location between the two Ruhr reservoirs...
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    The RWE Tower in Essen is the highest building in the Ruhr area, and one of the highest buildings in Germany. It is tennanted by RWE. As it shows the cultural...
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    had become the deepest in the Ruhr area at 624 m. Ewaldstrasse was eventually built on the other side of the Malakow tower from shaft 1, but he plans for...
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    large part of the border of Dahlhausen is formed by the river Ruhr. South of the Ruhr is the district of Burgaltendorf of the city of Essen. Dahlhausen...
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    Düsseldorf and some 20 kilometres (12 mi; 11 nmi) southwest of Essen in the Rhine-Ruhr area, Germany's largest metropolitan area. Düsseldorf is the fourth-busiest...
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    Industriekultur) links tourist attractions related to the industrial heritage in the Ruhr area in Germany. It is a part of the European Route of Industrial Heritage...
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    Rhine-Ruhr, the second biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union, that stretches from Bonn via Cologne and Düsseldorf to the Ruhr (from...
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    Syberg (category Towers in Germany)
    The Syberg is a hill in the Ruhr in the southern part of Dortmund, 240 m above sea level (NN), which is part of the Ardey Hills. The Syberg is home to...
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    on the southeastern edge of the Ruhr area, 15 km south of Dortmund, where the rivers Lenne and Volme meet the Ruhr. In 2023, the population was 197,677...
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    The Exzenter-Haus in Bochum is the tallest office building in the Central Ruhr region. In Bochum itself, there are currently two buildings that reach or...
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    [ˈɛsn̩] ) 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...
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    around 80 Bachelor's and master's degree programs. It is situated in the Ruhr area, the fourth largest urban area in Europe. The university pioneered the...
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  • observer: René Roy PACA Blauvac 628 Turtle Star Observatory Src NRW Mulheim-Ruhr 629 Szeged Observatory, JATE Observatory - Szeged Observatory 630 Osenbach...
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    Möhne and Edersee dams were breached, causing catastrophic flooding of the Ruhr valley and of villages in the Eder valley; the Sorpe Dam sustained only minor...
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  • Turtlestar 1997 PK2 Turtle Star Observatory (obs. code 628) located in Mülheim-Ruhr, Germany. It was built in 1995, by Andreas Boeker, his wife Karolin, Axel...
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    Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof (category Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn stations)
    station is integrated into the Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn network and local traffic operates under the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr transport association. The subterranean...
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