Essen     

- A city with a history -

  "It's true that the Ruhr area (Essen) has won a  reputation as an economic center since
  the explosive industrialisation of the 19th century not without good reason, whose lifeblood
  coal and steel was and still is. But soot and dust may often have obstructed the sight for
  the old cultural landscape, that can be found here, whose history and traditions go far
  back."

     ( Quotation: Wolfgang Schulze )

Contents:

From the foundation to the beginning of the 20th century
The turn of the century
World War I
The Twenties
The Third Reich
The Reconstruction
The economic alteration
Essen today

     But first of all: Essen - What, where, who?
 

Essen:
 
City in Northrhine - Westfalia, in the Ruhr area. Founded 852 by bischop Altfrid von Hildesheim. With about 630,000 inhabitants Essen is the sixth biggest city of Germany today. In former times Essen was important because of the coal mining and the processing iron and steel industry (e.g. Krupp). Today Essen is well known and a popular city for shopping, the seat of many authorities and associations as well as the headquarters of many main centrals of well known companies. As in many other cities, there are a university and further technical colleges in Essen. Furthermore, Essen has some more to offer in the cultural area. There are several theaters and the museums Ruhrland and Folkwang. Essen is a diocesan town since 1958.

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