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Ruhr (river) - MSN Encarta The Ruhr is a tributary of the River Rhine, rising in the west-central part of Germany, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The Ruhr River Basin and adjacent areas, usually regarded as comprising the region that extends east from the Rhine between Wesel and Düsseldorf, is one of the most intensely developed industrial regions in the world. Immense deposits of bituminous coal are in the Ruhr valley, and the district is traversed by extensive networks of railway lines and inland waterways, with direct access, along the Rhine, to the Atlantic Ocean. uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563766/Ruhr_(river).html   (416 words)

Ruhr- FREE Ruhr Information | Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information! It is an industrial center of the Ruhr district and a road and rail traffic hub. The major industrial center of the Ruhr district, it was the seat of the famous Krupp steelworks. Ruhr, 28, of Kingston, formerly of Marshfield, a pipe fitter... www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Ruhr   (1357 words)

Ennepe-Ruhr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis is a district in the middle of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the district-free cities of Bochum, Dortmund and Hagen, the districts of Märkischer Kreis and Oberbergischer Kreis, the city of Wuppertal, the district of Mettmann and the city of Essen. The district was created in 1929 by merging the former district of Schwelm with parts of the districts of Hattingen and Hagen. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ennepe-Ruhr   (224 words)

Ruhr – FREE Ruhr Information | Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information! Ruhr, region, c.1,300 sq mi (3,370 sq km), W Germany; a principal manufacturing center of Germany and formerly known as one of the world's greatest industrial complexes. The Ruhr's principal cities are, in the west, Duisburg, Mülheim, Essen, Oberhausen, Bottrop, Gladbeck, and Gelsenkirchen; and in the east, Bochum, Dortmund, and the smaller cities of Wattenscheid, Recklinghausen, Herne, and Witten. The Ruhr was occupied (1923) by French and Belgian forces during the dispute over reparations. www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Ruhr.html   (1379 words)

Portal Ruhr - statistics Ruhr is also the name of the river, a trunc of river Rhine, where mining and industrialisation began 200 years ago. The region is limited by river Ruhr in the south and river Lippe in the north. The Ruhr belongs to two regional associations, Westfalia in the east and the Rhinelands is the west. www.portal-ruhr.info /portal_zahlen_eng.html   (917 words)

Essen Located on the Ruhr River, its population of approximately 582,000 (as of December 31, 2006) makes it the 7th- or 8th-largest city in Germany. Essen is located in the center of the Ruhr Area, one of the largest urban areas in Europe (see also: megalopolis), comprising 11 independent cities and 4 districts with some 5.3 million inhabitants. Generally, large areas south of the Ruhr river (including the suburbs of Schuir and Kettwig) are quite green compared to the rest of the city and are often used as examples for rural structures in the otherwise more densely populated central Ruhr Area. www.ipedia.net /information/Essen   (4776 words)

Büro Kopernikus - German-Polish Cultural Projects The cityscapes in the Ruhr district were influenced by the destruction of war and the reconstruction taking place during period of the “Economic Miracle”, whereas the outward appearance of the Upper Silesian industrial region has until today survived largely unchanged. In the Ruhr area, as in Upper Silesia, the nature of the structural transition is clearly visible in the ruins of unfinished projects, incomplete streets, over-ambitiously planned regeneration zones and industrial wastelands all interspersed with fragmentary urban growth. In the “Ruhr Urban Region 2030”, a group of researchers developed a series of new visions for the core area of the Ruhr district. www.buero-kopernikus.org /en/article/31/6   (2787 words)

Übernachtungen accommodation Established in 852 as a ladies foundation for daughters of the high nobility, Essen was ruled for approx. Today, after undergoing a period of deep-seated change, the city on the Ruhr is home to the headquarters of nine of the top 100 German companies with the largest turnovers. With 800,000 overnight stays per year, Essen is the unequalled leader in the accommodation statistics for the Ruhr District. www.essen.de /english/Tourismus_E/uebernachtungen_E.htm   (163 words)

German Journal of Urban Studies (DfK) | Imprint+Contact | English Version In the Ruhr District the northern areas of cities are most affected, which are still strongly marked by the recent coal and steel past. Indicators of segregation in the urban districts of all county boroughs in North Rhine-Westphalia are shown in figure 5. Owing to the circumstances of life in the district and their own experience of life, mistrust and resignatory, apathetic pessimism about the efficacy of remedial action are presumably a rational attitude among the poor. www.difu.de /publikationen/dfk/en/04_1/04_1_strohmeier_bader.shtml   (4408 words)

Realbeer.com: Horst Dornbusch The Ruhr District was the crucible in which the coal from below was fused with iron ore hauled in by freighters, barges, and trains from all corners of the globe. It is obvious from this characterization of the Dortmund Export that this quaffing beer of the German miners and steelworkers in the Ruhr district was quite different from the Mild Ale, the quaffing beer of their British counterparts in the Midlands. In the early Middle Ages, brewing was the exclusive privilege of the clergy and nobility, a privilege, however, that was difficult to sustain after the emergence of a mercantile class at the beginning of the second millennium. www.realbeer.com /library/authors/dornbusch-h/dortmunder.php   (1240 words)

Dortmunder A Westphalian lager that originated in Germany's steel and coal district along the River Ruhr in the 19th century. Dortmund Export is a blond lager that evolved in the latter part of the 19th century in the Ruhr District of Germany. As we move into the globalized economy of the 21st century, a rapid socio-economic restructuring has taken place, which has led to the closure of all the coal mines, and the few steel mills that remain are in trouble, too. www.germanbeerinstitute.com /Dortmunder.html   (1409 words)

Villa Hügel Essen The Kulturstiftung Ruhr continued this tradition with the exhibition cycle "European capitals" which it launched in 1986 featuring cities which at their peak were of the highest cultural and artistic importance for the entire European continent, leaving a lasting imprint on its intellectual life. The tasks of the Kulturstiftung Ruhr as laid down in its articles also include the staging of art, cultural and industrial exhibitions relating to the Ruhr district or its history as a whole. The Kulturstiftung Ruhr sees its remit as extending beyond the themes already mentioned to the promotion and advancement of the visual arts, music, drama, literature and activities in the field of cultural and industrial history. www.villahuegel.de /english/trust.htm   (868 words)

Goethe-Institut Magazine KuBus - Previous issues - 1999 It denotes a miner‘s work area underground and is also used to describe the whole Ruhr District - the main region of heavy industry in the heart of Germany. For some 150 years, the Ruhr District was the industrial engine of the German economy. The development of the Ruhr District, with its 5.4 million inhabitants, from its former structure to a modern industrial region is now regarded as a model for the whole of Germany. www.goethe.de /wis/pro/kub/kwa/999/en157226.htm   (793 words)

Fussballregion Ruhrgebiet   (Site not responding. Last check: ) The Ruhr district is one of the largest and most compact football regions in Europe. The "Football Region Ruhr District — exhibition and event 2005/2006" is a travelling exhibition which was opened on April 26, 2005 in the world championship stadium in Gelsenkirchen. The development of the Ruhr district’s stadium landscape, the excitement of fans in large arenas and small stadiums are documented on four exhibition charts. www.fussballregion-ruhrgebiet.de /inhalt/english.php   (842 words)

Kultur macht Europa: Interview: Fritz Pleitgen and Oliver Scheytt Fritz Pleitgen and Oliver Scheytt are managing the "Ruhr 2010" programme for the Ruhr District, the European Capital of Culture in 2010. For RUHR.2010, that particularly means promoting identity, because the old industrial area of the Ruhr District is still in the process of reinventing itself and defining itself through culture, having had its roots cut and after many of its residents became "homeless" as a result of losing their jobs as the focus of their lives. Like the Ruhr District, Glasgow was also better than its reputation and took advantage of the Capital of Culture Year to show the world its young, culturally open and touristically attractive face, and to create new pictures of the city in people's minds. www.kultur-macht-europa.eu /47.html?&no_cache=1&L=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=145&cHash=d15e4578bb   (1540 words)

U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey: The Coking Industry Report on Germany The Ruhr district was the most important coking industrial district in Germany with 82 plants (out of a total of 115) producing approximately 70 percent of the total output of coke. Approximately 47 percent of the coke-oven gas produced in the Ruhr in 1943 was used in the steel plants; the balance was available to the Ruhr gas grid. The Ruhr gas grid, prior to 1939, extended east from the Ruhr to Hanover; but with the construction of the Herman Goering Works at Salzgitter in the beginning of 1940, the gas grid was extended farther east to Berlin. orbat.com /site/sturmvogel/ussbscoke.html   (8089 words)

Ruhr Area - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Ruhr Area, also called simply Ruhr, (German Ruhrgebiet, colloquial Ruhrpott) is an urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, consisting of a number of large formerly industrial cities bordered by the rivers Ruhr to the south, Rhine to the west, and Lippe to the north. These districts have grown into a large complex forming an industrial landscape of unique size, inhabited by some 5.3 million people, the fourth largest urban area in Europe after Moscow, Greater London, and Paris (see also: Istanbul). In January 1923 French forces occupied the Ruhr area as a means of reprisal after Germany proved incapable of fulfilling reparation payments demanded from her according to the Versailles Treaty. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ruhr_Area   (1130 words)

"Deutschland" Online Instead, Essen acts as a standard-bearer for the whole Ruhr District, and thus for a lively conurbation with eleven major cities and four administrative districts with 53 local governments. The Ruhr District has 5.3 million inhabitants and is thus one-and-a-half-times as large as Berlin. What the Ruhr District has undertaken is exemplary in character, and, according to Brussels, provides “the whole of Europe with an imaginative example”. www.magazine-deutschland.de /magazin/DE-Essen_3-06_ENG_E1.php?lang=eng   (628 words)

Historisches Centrum Hagen : Ruhr Pocket 1945 The conquest of the "armory of the German Reich", as the Ruhr area was called both on the German and the Allied side, thus came within reach. According to the Allied planning decided upon by General Eisenhower on 25 March 1945, the Ruhr area was to be enveloped in a pincers movement and the units of the German Wehrmacht remaining there were to be encircled. April 1945 the Ruhr area was encircled by American troops at Lippstadt. www.historisches-centrum.de /index.php?id=427   (811 words)

Ruhr - Research the news about Ruhr - from HighBeam Research The River Ruhr rises in the Rothaargebirge Mountains, and flows w for 235km... The Ruhr lies along, and north of, the Ruhr River (145 mi/233 km long), which rises in the... The Ruhr's principal cities are, in the west, Duisburg... www.highbeam.com /search.aspx?q=Ruhr&ref_id=ency_MALT   (1118 words)

The Royal Air Force - History Section   (Site not responding. Last check: ) The inhabitants and industry of the Ruhr rely to a very large extent on the enormously costly water barrage dams in the Ruhr District. There would be a large loss of electrical capacity in the Ruhr caused by destruction of hydro-electric plants, but also due to loss of cooling water for the large thermal plants. In the Weser district the destruction of the TARGET Y would seriously hamper transport in the Mittelland Canal and in the Weser, and would probably lead to an almost complete cessation of the great volume of traffic now using these waterways. www.raf.mod.uk /history/chastise_op1.html   (335 words)

Frieze Magazine | Archive | New Labour The Ruhr district, former backbone of Germany’s post-war industrial recovery, is undergoing a process of redefinition. The Ruhr is not just being repackaged along ecologically correct lines, it is also being recodified on a highly ideological level, its rhetoric suspended between the grammar of Pop and the vocabulary of corporate culture. The impending mass exodus of the remaining industries of the Ruhr basin is pre-ordained, yet the future of the Emscher Park isn’t. www.frieze.com /issue/article/new_labour   (1128 words)

VWI Hochschulgruppe Dortmund e.V. - ESTIEM ReCoM 2006 The region of the Ruhr is among the three largest conurbations in Europe. The Ruhr District has grown up as the result of immigration from every corner of Europe – a melting pot in which people from 140 nations have learned to live together cheek by jowl. Although the largest conurbation in Europe, the Ruhr District is not much more than 150 years old – and it is only in these last one and a half centuries that the region has taken on those specific characteristics that make it so unique. neu.vwi-dortmund.de /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6&Itemid=7   (1638 words)

Urban Design Project A public debate was conducted over whether the Ruhr District should have an “organization for innovation” like the IBA. But public support and the record of accomplishment of the IBA was sufficient to convince the new government to let Project Ruhr Ltd. continue the work. In March 2000, still another Ruhr coal mine was scheduled to close, idling an additional 6,000 workers in one fell swoop. urbandesignproject.ap.buffalo.edu /Rnf/res3.htm   (471 words)

RuhrTriennale 2008 - The RuhrTriennale Over the first three years, the idea of linking an international arts festival with the industrial heritage of the Ruhr District has been enthusiastically received. The Triennale is redeveloping the Ruhr District's great monuments to the age of industry and establishing a network of individual venues as an incomparable cultural location in the heart of Europe. It is this concept that has made the RuhrTriennale famous far beyond the borders of North Rhine-Westphalia and into what the New York Times has called a laboratory for new artistic developments that is unique throughout the world. www.ruhrtriennale.de /en/info   (269 words)

Regenerating the Ruhr - IBA Emscher Park project for the regeneration of Germany's Ruhr region Architectural Review, ... The Ruhr area has been dominated by coal mining and heavy industry for more than a century, and was left with enormous ecological and social problems after the industrial decline of the 1980s. Due to the risk of subsidence around the still existing network of mine shafts, the Ruhr district has until now not been able to construct an underground sewage system, and the Emscher and its tributaries are still in part simply concrete-lined open sewers. However, as only 13 pits of the 150 operating in the 1950s are still being worked, these open channels are in the process of being replaced by underground pipes, local water treatment plants are being constructed and the concrete embankments are removed to encourage rainwater seepage into the streams. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3575/is_1224_205/ai_54172205   (830 words)

RUB: CompEng » Living & Studying in Bochum The Ruhr University Bochum, founded in 1962, has obtained the reputation of a great traditional academic institution without loosing the pioneering spirit and dynamics of a new enterprise. The Ruhr District is one of the most diversified and culturally active regions in Germany. The Ruhr District, as a geographical term, refers to the area defined by the Rivers Ruhr, Emscher and Lippe. www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de /comp-eng/ce-studying.htm   (325 words)

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