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Landmark Attractions In Duisburg

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Duisburg is the fifth largest city of Germany's most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund and Essen, and its 499,845 inhabitants make it Germany's 15th largest city. In the Rhineland, at the confluence of the Rhine and its tributary Ruhr, it lies in the west of the Ruhr, Germany's largest urban area, of which it is the third largest city after Dortmund and Essen. The Ruhr itself lies within the larger Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region, one of Europe's largest conurbations. The city lies on both sides of the Rhine, with the city centre and most boroughs on the river's right bank, and is the only city of the ...
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Landmark Attractions In Duisburg

  • 1. Innenhafen Duisburg Duisburg
    The Innenhafen in Duisburg, Germany, is connected to the Rhine River, encompasses an area of 89ha. For over a hundred years during the high point of the Industrial Revolution, it was the central harbour and trading point of the town. Since the mid 1960s, the importance of the harbour declined and it lay in a disused condition for 20 years, before plans for renovation were drawn up. This former industrial area has been fundamentally transformed, a process which started as a part of the International Building Exhibition Emscher Park which ran from 1989 until 1999. The basis for this model of development in the Ruhr district was delivered in 1994 by the British architect Norman Foster. Since then, the Inner Harbor has transformed itself into a district combining employment, housing, culture a...
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