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The Best Attractions In Essen

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Essen is the fourth largest city of Germany's most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, and its population of approximately 589,000 also makes it the ninth largest city of Germany, as well as the third largest city of the Rhineland after Cologne and Düsseldorf. On the Ruhr and Emscher rivers , it lies at the centre of the Ruhr, Germany's largest urban area, of which it is the second largest city after Dortmund. The Ruhr is itself part of the larger Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region, the most highly populated area in Europe with a population of 13,400,000. Essen lies in the Low German and Low Franconian dialect areas. Essen is seat to several...
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  • 1. Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen Essen
    The Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex is a large former industrial site in the city of Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It has been inscribed into the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites since December 14, 2001, and is one of the anchor points of the European Route of Industrial Heritage. The first coal mine on the premises was founded in 1847, and mining activities took place from 1851 until December 23, 1986. For decades, starting in the late 1950s, the two parts of the site, Zollverein Coal Mine and Zollverein Coking Plant , ranked among the largest of their kinds in Europe. Shaft 12, built in the New Objectivity style, was opened in 1932 and is considered an architectural and technical masterpiece, earning it a reputation as the “most beautiful coal mine in the world”.
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  • 2. Grugapark Essen Essen
    The Grugapark is a central park in the city of Essen. It was first opened in 1929 as the first Große Ruhrländische Gartenausstellung. Adjacent to the Grugapark is the Grugahalle concert hall and the Messe Essen exhibition centre.
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  • 4. Museum Folkwang Essen
    Museum Folkwang is a major collection of 19th- and 20th-century art in Essen, Germany. The museum was established in 1922 by merging the Essener Kunstmuseum, which was founded in 1906, and the private Folkwang Museum of the collector and patron Karl Ernst Osthaus in Hagen, founded in 1902.The term Folkwang derives from the name of the afterlife meadow of the dead, Fólkvangr, presided over by the Norse goddess Freyja.Museum Folkwang incorporates the Deutsche Plakat Museum , comprising circa 340,000 posters from politics, economy and culture. During a visit in Essen in 1932, Paul J. Sachs called the Folkwang the most beautiful museum in the world.In 2007, David Chipperfield designed an extension, which was then built onto the older building.
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  • 6. Lichtburg Essen
    Lichtburg has been a popular name for cinemas in Germany. Those in Berlin, Essen and Düsseldorf have been particularly famous; the Lichtburg in Oberhausen is the site of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, and Quernheim is the smallest municipality in Germany with a cinema, also called Lichtburg.
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  • 7. Ruhr Museum Essen
    The Ruhr is a polycentric urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population density of 2,800/km2 and a population of over 5 million , it is the largest urban area in Germany, and third-largest in the European Union. It consists of several large, industrial cities bordered by the rivers Ruhr to the south, Rhine to the west, and Lippe to the north. In the southwest it borders the Bergisches Land. It is considered part of the larger Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region of more than 12 million people, which is among the largest in Europe. From west to east, the region includes the cities of Duisburg, Oberhausen, Bottrop, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Bochum, Herne, Hagen, Dortmund, Hamm, Dinslaken, the southern town of the more rural district Wesel, Recklinghausen, Unna ...
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  • 11. Hespertalbahn Museumseisenbahn Essen Essen
    The Hesper Valley Railway is a German heritage line running steam locomotive services between Kupferdreh Old Station and Haus Scheppen on the Baldeneysee lake in Essen. As a narrow gauge wagonway it linked opened up Erzgruben in 1867, and the Pörtingsiepen mine in 1877. The upgrading of part of the line to standard gauge followed in 1918. In 1973 the line was closed. In June 1975 the Hesper Valley Railway Preservation Society saved the route and has since operated it as a heritage railway. The top speed on the line is 15 km/h. The Hesper Valley Railway is part of the Route der Industriekultur, route 12 and route 15 .
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  • 15. Old Synagogue Essen
    The Old Synagogue is a cultural meeting center and memorial in the city of Essen in Germany. It is located in the center of the city on Edmund-Körner-Platz 1 , close to the present city hall. The memorial center was founded in 1980 and is accommodated in the pre-war Jewish community's synagogue. The synagogue, together with the attached Rabbinerhaus , which today houses the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute, was finished after a two-year construction period in 1913. It was originally consecrated as the Neue Synagoge . Today the building is one of the largest, best preserved and architecturally most impressive testimonies to Jewish culture in pre-war Germany.
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