Rheinhausen () is a district of the city of

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, with a population of 78,203 (December 31, 2020) and an area of 38.68 km². It lies on the left bank of the river

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. Rheinhausen consists of the neighbourhoods: Rumeln-Kaldenhausen, Hochemmerich (including Asterlagen), Bergheim (including Trompet-Oestrum), Friemersheim, and the central part: Rheinhausen-Mitte, which has a population of 10,666. It has railway stations,

Rheinhausen station Rheinhausen station is located in the Duisburg suburb of Rheinhausen in the Lower Rhine region of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It lies on the Duisburg-Ruhrort–Mönchengladbach railway and is the starting point of the Lower Rhine ...

and Rheinhausen Ost station on the Osterath–Dortmund Süd railway.

History

In the surroundings of Rheinhausen, there are traces of settlements dating back to the Roman period. Remains of a guardhouse on the Roman boundary, the

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, have been found during

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works. Later, the Irish bishop

Ludger Ludger ( la, Ludgerus; also Lüdiger or Liudger) (born at Zuilen near Utrecht 742; died 26 March 809 at Billerbeck) was a missionary among the Frisians and Saxons, founder of Werden Abbey and the first Bishop of Münster in Westphalia. He h ...

is said to have done

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work in this region. Until administrative reorganisation in 1975 Rheinhausen had been an independent city. It had received city rights in 1934, but the original city charter has been lost because of fire during

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. On May 8, 1945 the

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Engineer Group A, led by Col. Swenholt commanding officer of the

332nd Engineer General Service Regiment 332nd Engineer General Service Regiment or 332nd Engineer Regiment was activated as a Special Service Regiment in May 1942, as a unit in the United States Army. Later this unit was redesignated a General Service Regiment. The unit was formed ...

, constructed the Duisburg-Hochfeld rail bridge on the Duisburg-Ruhrort–Mönchengladbach line across the River Rhine between Duisburg and Rheinhausen. The bridge was 2,815 feet (0.86 kM) in length, and took six days, fifteen hours and twenty minutes to construct, a record time. The Bridge was named "Victory Bridge". Rheinhausen had long been an industrial city, with coal mines and steelworks. The large steel company

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owned a plant in the city. It was closed in 1986. Near the Rheinhausen central is the City-Hall-Rheinhausen, The Alpha-Haus and a school, which is called Realschule Rheinhausen I (Körnerplatz).

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History

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