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Vest Recklinghausen : Recklinghausen and its surroundings (from the Portsmouth-Duisburg Group)

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In the former Turmschule. In the shade of St. Peter's Church, the Icon Museum of Recklinghausen is worth a visit. This institute is the most important museum of its type outside the Orthodox lands. It was founded in 1956, on the basis of two private collections, which the Recklinghausen art gallery had offered for sale after an icon exhibition. Today the museum focusses primarily on three areas :. Classical" icons from Russia and the Balkan states. Schloss Herten is depicted below. The park has its origi...

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Dortmund (from the Portsmouth-Duisburg Group)

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The only brewery left in Dortmund is DAB. Is a former police police that has become notorious for its use by the Gestapo. It contains an exhibition of resistance to the Nazis. The former Zeche Zollern. Of the Gelsenkirchen Mining Company is the location of a museum. The Hansa Coking Works is being preserved as an industrial monument. 2013 Brian Daugherty Design by FreeCSSTemplates.org.

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Titels close to the Ruhr District (from the Portsmouth-Duisburg Group)

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Towns close to the Ruhr District. Possibly best known as the home of the Fern Uni. Deutschland's equivalent to the Open University. Wuppertal is the location of the famous Schwebebahn, or monorail, which primarily runs along the river. It was the home town of Friedrich Engels. A museum to Engels can be found on Friedrich Engels Strasse. Posibly the only German town to have a name beginning with the letter 'X'. It was a former Roman legionary center. 2013 Brian Daugherty Design by FreeCSSTemplates.org.

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Essen (from the Portsmouth-Duisburg Group)

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Theaters : Aalto and Philharmonie. In the small stadtgarten in the center of the Südviertel are sited two large houses of culture. The Saalbau on the Huyssen-Allee tends to operate under the name of "Philharmonie Essen". Wasserturm, Steeler Berg. That's not the end of the story though. The statue is liable to 'attack'- the image below shows his name being altered to Krüppel. It lies to the west of the Gruga. Short for the Gross Ruhr Garten Ausstellung (the great Ruhr garden exhibition). Since the 18th ce...

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Mülheim : what to see and do in Mülheim (from the Portsmouth-Duisburg Group)

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In the south of Mülheim is the Saarn Monastery. Its church today serves as a Catholic parish church under the name of St Maria Himmelfahrt. According to one not-totally-reliable document the church was consecrated in 1216 by Archbishop Engelbert of Köln. The monastery was in large part newly built in the 18th century and functioned after the secularization initially as a gun and wallpaper factory. In 1977, the U18 to Essen became the first part of the Rhein-Ruhr Stadtbahn. A water tower of 1892/95 in the...

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Dortmund (from the Portsmouth-Duisburg Group)

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The only brewery left in Dortmund is DAB. Is a former police police that has become notorious for its use by the Gestapo. It contains an exhibition of resistance to the Nazis. The former Zeche Zollern. Of the Gelsenkirchen Mining Company is the location of a museum. The Hansa Coking Works is being preserved as an industrial monument. 2013 Brian Daugherty Design by FreeCSSTemplates.org.

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Gelsenkirchen (from the Portsmouth-Duisburg Group)

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Gelsenkirchen is the northern terminus of the tram route 107. Kulturlinie) which runs through to Bredeny in southern Essen. Two monuments in Rotthauser Cemetery commemorate two further disasters at Dahlbusch with less lenient outcomes: the firedamp catastrophe of 20th May 1950 (78 dead) and of 3rd August 1955 (41 dead). After the mine was closed in 1966, only a few remains of the pithead still exist on the Zechenstraße. Lovable anecdotes circulated from the years of Schalke's rapid rise: Before important...

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Mülheim : what to see and do in Mülheim (from the Portsmouth-Duisburg Group)

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In the south of Mülheim is the Saarn Monastery. Its church today serves as a Catholic parish church under the name of St Maria Himmelfahrt. According to one not-totally-reliable document the church was consecrated in 1216 by Archbishop Engelbert of Köln. The monastery was in large part newly built in the 18th century and functioned after the secularization initially as a gun and wallpaper factory. In 1977, the U18 to Essen became the first part of the Rhein-Ruhr Stadtbahn. A water tower of 1892/95 in the...

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Along the River Emscher (from the Portsmouth-Duisburg Group)

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Along the River Emscher. The core of the Bottrop Arts Collection consists of 125 paintings as well as almost all of the graphic work of Josef Albers. Otherwise, the museum complex which consists of four large pavilions each of square plan, today houses a Medienzentrum. A modern gallery as well as the Museum for Early and Local History. In 1975, Herne merged with Wanne-Eickel, the latter being itself formed by a merger in 1926. Nevertheless, the main railway station is called Wanne-Eickel. In 1867, Thomas...

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Oberhausen (from the Portsmouth-Duisburg Group)

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People connected with Oberhausen. Formed a comedy duo called the Missfits. Here is a clip of them performing in Oberhausen (see below also). Neue Mitte (New Center). Oberhausen has built a 'new center' on the grounds of the Gutehoffnung iron works, adjacent to the Rhein-Herne Canal (which connects Duisburg to Dortmund). There you will find the CentrO. An arena etc. etc. The image to left shows the Gasometer. The founding of the St. Antony Hütte. Ironworks) in ca. 1758 is taken by several sources to m...