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A former mining settlement. 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 ...
The community was renewed after the war, and a number of synagogues rebuilt. In 1946 Westphalia became a part of the modern federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. There were 924 Jews living there in 1970. In 1989 the nine Jewish communities in Westphalia numbered 745. In 2004 there were ten communities with 7,204 members.
German: Westfalen. Westphalia, historic region of northwestern Germany, comprising a large part of the present federal Land (state) of North Rhine–Westphalia. Germany in the 10th and 11th centuries. The ancient Saxons were divided into three main groups: the Westphalians, the Angrians (German: Engern), and the Eastphalians (Ostfalen).
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Gelsenkirchen, city, North Rhine–Westphalia Land (state), western Germany. It lies just north of Essen. Gelsenkirchen was a village of fewer than 1,000 inhabitants in 1850, but the opening in 1853 of its first coal mine and its favourable position on the Rhine-Herne Canal stimulated its rapid development as a Ruhr inland port and industrial ...
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North Rhine-Westphalia. The Province of Westphalia ( German: Provinz Westfalen) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia from 1815 to 1946. [1] In turn, Prussia was the largest component state of the German Empire from 1871 to 1918, of the Weimar Republic and from 1918 to 1933, and of Nazi Germany from 1933 until 1945.
Westphalia ( / wɛstˈfeɪliə /; German: Westfalen [vɛstˈfaːlən]; Low German: Westfalen [vεs (t)ˈfɔːln]) is a region of northwestern Germany and one of the three historic parts of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It has an area of 20,210 square kilometres (7,800 sq mi) and 7.9 million inhabitants.
Gelsenkirchen Germany is a city in the state North Rhine-Westphalia. It lies within the "Coal Heart" of Germany and has a population of 270,000 inhabitants. First documented in 1150, Gelsenkirchen remained a tiny village until the 19th century, when the Industrial Revolution led to the growth of the entire area.
