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Map of the Ruhr area; in Green is a stricter or narrower definition of the Ruhr, comprising municipalities that are members of the Ruhr regional institution. The urban landscape of the Ruhr extends from the Lower Rhine Basin east to the Westphalian Plain and south to the hills of the Rhenish Massif.
The Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region (German: Metropolregion Rhein-Ruhr) is the largest metropolitan region in Germany, with over ten million inhabitants. [2] A polycentric conurbation with several major urban concentrations, the region covers an area of 7,110 square kilometres (2,750 sq mi), entirely within the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Deutsch: Lage von Regionalverband Ruhr in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland English: Locator map of Regionalverband Ruhr in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany . Date
The four metropolitan areas of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, Germany's most populous metropolitan region: Essen, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, and Cologne Berlin Hamburg. Sorted alphabetically: Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region; Central German Metropolitan Region; Frankfurt/Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region; Hamburg Metropolitan Region
There are five Ruhr reservoirs on the river, often used for leisure activities. Hengsteysee between Dortmund and Hagen, surface area: 1.36 km 2, height of the weir 4.5 m; Harkortsee between Herdecke and Wetter; surface area: 1.37 km 2, height of the weir 7.8 m; Kemnader See between Witten and Bochum; surface area: 1.25 km 2, height of the weir 2 m
Map of the occupied Rhineland. In the north, the eastward-bulging area around Duisburg, Essen and Dortmund (dotted) largely corresponds to the Ruhr region that was occupied in 1923. As a consequence of Germany's failure to make timber deliveries in December 1922, the Reparation Commission declared Germany in default. [9]
It's a classic tale: You have last-minute guests coming over for dinner or a bake sale fundraiser you didn't find out about until the night before—and now you need to concoct some tasty treats ...
1995 – The Ruhr becomes a part of the newly defined European metropolitan area Rhine-Ruhr. 1995 – The last base of the British Army of the Rhine in the Ruhr, Suffolk Barracks in Dortmund, closes on 17 November. 1996 – On 11 September, the CentrO shopping centre in Oberhausen is opened.