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Gelsenkirchen (UK: / ˈɡɛlzənkɪərxən /, US: / ˌɡɛlzənˈkɪərxən /, [ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ]German: [ˌɡɛlzn̩ˈkɪʁçn̩] ⓘ; Westphalian: Gelsenkiärken) is the 25th-most populous city of Germany and the 11th-most populous in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia with 262,528 (2016) inhabitants. On the Emscher River (a tributary of the ...
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Highlights in Gelsenkirchen. Nature and culture in extraordinary places. Blue and green - that's Gelsenkirchen: Blue, of course, like the royal blue Schalke 04, in whose arena not only the ball rolls, but also international stars such as Ed Sheeran or Taylor Swift come to spectacular concerts. Or blue, like the famous sponge reliefs by Yves ...
- Zoom Erlebniswelt Gelsenkirchen
- Schloss Horst
- FC Schalke 04
- Nordsternpark
- Zeche Zollverein
- Schloss Berge
- Musiktheater Im Revier
- Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen
- Halde Rheinelbe
- Halde Rungenberg
The city’s award-winning zoo was founded in 1949 on bomb-damaged land beside the Rhine-Herne Canal and focuses solely on larger animals. For that reason there are only 60 or so species at the park, but these creatures are given big, panoramic habitats. There are polar bears, lions, orangutans, giraffes, timberwolves, chimpanzees and hippopotamuses,...
In the Horst district is an imposing Renaissance palace, one of the oldest and most important historical buildings in Westphalia. In the regional “Liperenaissance” style, Schloss went up in 1578, on the site of a medieval predecessor that had burned down. At that time it was one of the largest palaces north of the alps. Schloss Horst was the seat o...
Schalke are the third most successful club in the history of the Bundesliga and were Germany’s dominant club in the 1930s. Although Die Königsblauen (The Royal Blues) haven’t won a title since 1958 they’ve come close over the last decade, finishing runner-up in 2007 and 2010. You can learn about the 30s when they were the biggest team in the county...
On the Ruhr’s Industrial Heritage Trail, the Nordsternpark is a recreation area laid out on the former Zeche Nordstern colliery. The mine closed down in 1993, and in just four years the site had been regenerated in time for Gelsenkirchen to host the Bundesgartenschau in 1997 (Federal Garden Exhibition). The old conveyors have been turned into walkw...
Although strictly in Essen city limits, this awe-inspiring industrial park is only ten minutes by road from Schalke. Zeche Zollverein is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the main landmark on the Route of Industrial Heritage. It has been labelled “the most beautiful coalmine in the world”, and at the height of production employed a small army of 8,0...
Couched in large grounds, the moated castle, Schloss Berge dates back to the 1200s and was built to protect Gelsenkirchen’s Erle district. The property was made more luxurious down the centuries, and got its current mixture of Baroque and Neoclassicism at the end of the 18th century. Around that time it was the birthplace Maria Anna Wilhelmine, who...
A distinguished example of post-war architecture, the Musiktheater im Revier dates to 1959 and is listed as a German protected monument. There are two halls inside (Großes Haus and Kleines Haus), and the venue stages around 320 performances a year for ballet, opera, musical theatre and operetta. Werner Ruhnaus designed the building, which has a hug...
The city’s art museum is in a handsome Neo-Baroque villa with a modern glass extension and specialises in art from the 19th and 20th centuries. The museum was only founded in the 1950s but quickly set about compiling art by the Expressionist Lovis Corinth, Dadaist Max Ernst and Bauhaus teacher László Moholy-Nagy. But the focus of the collection is ...
In Gelsenkirchen’s southernmost district of Ückendorf there’s a mountain-like slagheap at the site of another disused mine, Zeche Rheinelbe. This colliery shut down in 1928, long before many of the others in the area. But it wasn’t until 1999 that its waste material was landscaped into this otherworldly peak. The crest of the heap is just over 100 ...
Also a fitting memorial for Gelsenkirchen’s industry is this 110-metre slag tip. What you see here is more than a century’s worth of mining spoil, piled into two pyramids. Nature has slowly started to take over, but as with Rheinelbe the upper portions are still bare. You can scale the 300 steps from the picturesque worker settlement of Schüngelber...
Gelsenkirchen [ɡɛlzənˈkɪrçən] ist eine Großstadt im zentralen Ruhrgebiet in Nordrhein-Westfalen und gehört zur Metropolregion Rhein-Ruhr. Die kreisfreie Stadt im Regierungsbezirk Münster ist in der Landesplanung als Mittelzentrum ausgewiesen. Sie ist Mitglied im Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe und im Regionalverband Ruhr.
Wissenschaftspark, modern glass architecture replaced old factories. Gelsenkirchen is a city of 260,000 people (2019) at the Ruhr region in the western part of the country, near major cities such as Düsseldorf and Cologne. Through coal mining, the Ruhr Region became the industrial heart of Germany and formed heavily populated cities.
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Contact Us. tourist information office in the Hans-Sachs-Haus Ebertstraße 11 45879 Gelsenkirchen Phone +49 209 169-3968 Phone +49 209 169-3969 touristinfo@gelsenkirchen.de.
