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Landmark 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. 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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  • 13. Folkwang University of the Arts Essen
    The Folkwang University of the Arts is a leading university for music, theater, dance, design, and academic studies, located in 4 German cities of North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 1927, its traditional main location has been in the former Werden Abbey in Essen in the Ruhr Area, with additional facilities in Duisburg, Bochum, and Dortmund, and, since 2010, at the Zeche Zollverein, a World Heritage Site also in Essen. The Folkwang University is home to the international dance company Folkwang Tanz Studio . Founded as Folkwangschule, its name was Folkwang Hochschule from 1963 until 2009.
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  • 14. RWE Tower Essen
    RWE AG, until 1990: Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG , is a German electric utilities company based in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia. Through its various subsidiaries, the energy company supplies electricity and gas to more than 20 million electricity customers and 10 million gas customers, principally in Europe. RWE is the second largest electricity producer in Germany, and has increased renewable energy production in recent years.RWE previously owned American Water, the United States' largest investor-owned water utility, but this was divested in 2008. It also owned RWE Dea , which produced some of the oil and gas RWE sold (annual production is around 2 million m3 of crude oil and 3 billion m3 of natural gas a day.RWE confirmed in December 2015 that it would separate its re...
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  • 15. Rathaus Essen
    Rathaus Essen is a 22-storey, 106 m skyscraper in Essen, Germany. When completed on 1 July 1979, it was the tallest city hall in Europe, and is currently the tallest city hall in Germany. It has a base floor area of more than 69,000 m2 .
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