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Specialty Museum 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. 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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  • 3. 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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  • 5. Red Dot Design Museum Essen
    The Red Dot Design Award is an international product design and communication design prize awarded by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany. There are prize categories for product design, design agencies, and design concepts. Since 1955, designers and producers can apply for the prizes with the winners being presented in an annual ceremony. Winning products are presented in the Red Dot Design Museum on the premises of the historical Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen. The Red Dot Design Museum Essen was built in 1997, it is also the first Red Dot Design Museum. The second Red Dot Design Museum was built in Singapore in 2005. In 2013, the Red Dot Design Museum Taipei was opened.The Red Dot Design Award had more than 15,500 submissions from 70 countries in 20...
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