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This Gelsenkirchen event is scheduled for every second weekend in September. Bands from all over the world descend upon Gelsenkirchen to play their own particular version of jazz music. Some years boast as many as 200 musicians who come to play at the Jazz Days.
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In Gelsenkirchen, you can go on a "trip around the world in one day" at ZOOM. The adventure worlds of Alaska, Africa and Asia have been created on an area of more than 30 hectares. The only zoological adventure world in Europe with a consistently natural design offers more than 900 animals in over 100 species an almost natural home.
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- 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...
Every July, the Castle Park Fest is a popular Gelsenkirchen attraction. The venue is the famous Schloss Berge (Berge Castle). The fifty-year tradition brings throngs of guests to this always-popular spot and culminates in a huge fireworks display. Learn more about Gelsenkirchen Events; 4. Gaining Knowledge At The Gelsenkirchen City Museum
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 ...
Nordsternpark will be the perfect spot to go with friends, family and colleagues throughout the tournament. 📍 Location Nordsternpark, Am Bugapark 1, 45899 Gelsenkirchen. Open in Google Maps ...
