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Essen (German pronunciation: ⓘ) is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of 584,580 makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and Dortmund, as well as the ninth-largest city of Germany
- 116 m (381 ft)
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Welcome to Essen! Come and discover one of the greenest cities in Germany, at the heart of the Ruhr region. Whether you're planning a city break, a family holiday or a visit to a trade fair, Essen has so much to offer – from shopping in buzzing city streets to hiking and cycling in beautiful scenery, from art, culture and top-notch museums ...
- Museum Folkwang
- Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex
- Ruhr Museum
- Red Dot Design Museum
- Villa Hügel
- Essen Minster
- Essen Cathedral Treasury
- Grugapark
- Old Synagogue
- Philharmonie Essen
Essen’s renowned art museum presents every European movement from the Romantics in the 19th century to Abstract Expressionism after the Second World War. The museum was founded in 1902 in Hagen and moved to Essen in 1921 when its collection was sold to the city. It has a feast of art by household names like Caspar David Friedrich, Ferdinand Hodler,...
The Ruhr’s most celebrated industrial facility and a World Heritage Site, the Zollverein Complex is a vast coal mine and coking plant in operation from 1847 to 1993. Its heyday came in the post-war period when industry like this powered Germany’s Wirtschaftswunder (Economic Miracle). The Zollverein Complex has also been described as the most beauti...
The Bauhaus Coal Washery at the complex was turned into a museum for the whole Ruhr industrial area. First of all, the design of the museum is thrilling as it adapts to the plant and its network of towers and conveyor belts. To access the museum you take an exterior escalator to an upper level and then work your way down through the exhibitions. Th...
The Red Dot Design Award is an international industrial design prize receiving tens of thousands of worldwide entrants every year. The prize covers several product design fields like home appliances, tools, portable electronics, vehicles and furniture. To illustrate the award’s importance, the jury is normally composed of design’s leading lights, a...
At the start of the 1870s Alfred Krupp, of the famous family of industrialists, ordered a 269-room villa in 20 hectares of land over the Ruhr. Krupp himself was involved in the finest details of the design of this Neoclassical mansion, which despite its size has quite a bare facade. The villa was equipped with modern conveniences decades before the...
The must-see at Essen’s main church is the Golden Madonna of Essen. Sculpted in 980 and coated in gold leaf, this treasure is the world’s oldest sculpture of Mary, and the oldest free-standing medieval sculpture north of the Alps. The church’s monumental western section (westwork) and the crypt are also from the Ottonian dynasty in the 900s. The we...
The treasury chamber at the minster is open to the public and is famed for value and age of its liturgical objects. The treasury is maintained by the cathedral chapter and isn’t actually a museum, as the items you see still have a practical function where possible. It’s almost unbelievable how many Ottonian treasures there are from the 10th and 11t...
Less a typical city park than an assortment of green-themed attractions, Grugapark has to be one of your go-tos on warm days. First and foremost it’s a botanical garden boasting a pyramid-shaped tropical house, an alpine garden with waterfall, a Westphalian’s farmer’s garden, a rose garden, a forest valley with bonsai and a rhododendron garden. The...
When Essen’s sizeable Old Synagogue opened in the 1910s it catered to a Jewish community of more than 5,000. In Nazi times the interior was ransacked and burnt, but the exterior was unaffected and also survived the war. Following a spell as an industrial design museum , the synagogue’s interior mosaics and torah ark were restored and in 2010 this b...
The concert hall in at the Stadtgarten was inaugurated at the turn of the 20th century and went through a renovation costing €72m at the start of the 2000s. The main Alfred-Krupp-Saal seats an audience of 2,000 and now has superlative acoustics, fitting for its prestigious performers. If you know you have a trip to Essen coming up, look up the seas...
Apr 10, 2024 · Essen, city, North Rhine–Westphalia Land (state), western Germany. It is situated between the Rhine-Herne Canal and the Ruhr River. Essen was originally the seat of an aristocratic convent (founded 852), still represented by the cathedral (Münsterkirche; now the seat of a Roman Catholic bishop),
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Contents. Essen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. With almost 582,000 inhabitants (2020), Essen is a service and administrative city, with several large companies headquartered here. A highlight of Essen is Zeche Zollverein, a UNESCO World Heritage Site) with several museums.
Germany's third greenest city, Capital of Culture, European Green Capital and pulsating metropolis in the heart of the Ruhr region. Hardly any other German city stands for so many exciting contrasts. Essen is also the world's first city to use mixed reality glasses to let visitors travel through time. The worldwide unique city tour "Essen 1887 ...
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- 1. an industrial city in the Ruhr valley, in northwestern Germany; population 583,200 (est. 2006).
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