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Essen (other) , a city in the Netherlands
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Essen is a city in the Ruhr area of Germany. Essen may also refer to: * Spiel or Essen, a game fair held in Essen, Germany * Essen (surname) * Essen, Belgium, a municipality in Antwerp, Belgium * Essen (Oldenburg), a municipality in Cloppenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany * Essen, Groningen, a hamlet in the Netherlands * Essen, Gelderland, a village in Gelderland, the Netherlands * , a West German fishing trawler in service 1945-56 See also *Bad Essen, in the district of Osnabrück, Lower Saxony * Esen (other) * Assen Assen () is a municipality and a city in the northeastern Netherlands, and is the capital of the province of Drenthe. It received city rights in 1809. Assen is known for TT Circuit Assen, the motorcycle racing circuit, where on the last Sund ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essen
Essen (; Latin: ''Assindia'') is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and Dortmund, as well as the ninth-largest city of Germany. Essen lies in the larger Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region and is part of the cultural area of Rhineland. Because of its central location in the Ruhr, Essen is often regarded as the Ruhr's "secret capital". Two rivers flow through the city: in the north, the Emscher, the Ruhr area's central river, and in the south, the Ruhr River, which is dammed in Essen to form the Lake Baldeney (''Baldeneysee'') and Lake Kettwig (''Kettwiger See'') reservoirs. The central and northern boroughs of Essen historically belong to the Low German ( Westphalian) language area, and the south of the city to the Low Franconian (Bergish) area (closely related to Dutch). Essen is seat to several of the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spiel
Internationale Spieltage SPIEL, often called the Essen Game Fair after the city where it is held, is an annual four-day boardgame trade fair which is also open to the public held in October (Thursday to the following Sunday) at the Messe Essen exhibition centre in Essen, Germany. It began in 1983. With 1 021 exhibitors from 50 nations in 2016, SPIEL is the biggest fair for board games in the world. Many new games are released at the fair each year, especially (but not exclusively) European-style board games. At SPIEL board games are offered which are hard to find in retail because a lot of international and small exhibitors present their products. While the prices for buying the games at the fair do not tend to be significantly lower than those in retail, the games are typically available sooner than in regular board game shops, come with promotional materials (mostly extra cards or tokens with a few more game mechanics, but also T-shirts and similar merchandise) and it is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essen (surname)
Essen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * August Franz Essen (1720–1792), Saxonian diplomat * Hans Henric von Essen (1755–1824), Swedish officer, courtier and statesman *Louis Essen Louis Essen FRS O.B.E. (6 September 1908 – 24 August 1997) was an English physicist whose most notable achievements were in the precise measurement of time and the determination of the speed of light. He was a critic of Albert Einstein's ... (1908–1997), English physicist * Nikolai Essen (1860–1915), Russian naval commander and admiral * Siri von Essen (1850–1912), Swedish/Finnish actress, married to August von Strindberg 1877–91 * Thomas Von Essen (born 1954), commissioner of the New York City Fire Department {{surname, Essen German-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essen, Belgium
Essen () is a town and municipality in the Belgian province of Antwerp. As of september 2022, the municipality had 19,029 inhabitants. The municipality is bordered on three sides by the Netherlands. Essen belongs to the electoral canton of Brecht and the judicial canton of Kapellen. The municipality is located in the Noorderkempen. Toponymy The name "Essen" is also attested as ''Esshen'', ''Essche(n)'' or ''Esse''. It is generally assumed that Essen refers to high lying fields near a watercourse or settlements along a stream. The tree species ash is also related to the town name (As the name in Dutch is es). It was a toponym that already appeared in Old Dutch in the meaning of 'boat of ash wood'. People liked to use the ash tree for building ships. History Prehistory On Essens territory there are four locations where finds from prehistoric times have been found. On the basis of four sites it is not easy to draw conclusions. One thing is clear: around 8,500 years ago p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essen (Oldenburg)
Essen (Oldenburg) is a municipality in the district of Cloppenburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is on the river Hase, about north of Quakenbrück and southwest of Cloppenburg. Essen consists of the following villages: Addrup Addrup is a village in the district of Cloppenburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Geography Addrup borders the villages of Gut Lage, Uptloh, Bevern, Calhorn and Stadtsholte within the Essen (Oldenburg) municipality. To the east, Addrup borders Lüs ..., Ahausen, Barlage, Bartmannsholte, Beverdiek, Bevern, Bokel, Brokstreek, Calhorn, Darrel, Essen proper, Felde, Gut Lage, Herbergen, Hülsenmoor, Nordholte, Osteressen, Sandloh and Uptloh. The reference to Oldenburg serves to allow disambiguation with the much larger Essen (Ruhr). It is part of the official name as stated in the town constitution, which also prescribes the styling using parentheses. The mayor of Essen is Heinrich Kreßmann, first elected in 2016, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essen, Groningen
Essen is a small hamlet in the municipality of Groningen in the province of Groningen. It lies between the city of Groningen and the village of Haren. In 1215 a monastery was founded in Essen (or Yesse). It existed until 1594. During the Protestant Reformation it was closed down by the province of Groningen. It was known for having a miraculous statue of Mary (mother of Jesus). Only the terrain on which the monastery was built is recognisable. Today Essen counts twenty farms in a very rural countryside; it is hard to imagine that the centre of the city of Groningen Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of t ... is only away. The existence of Essen is being threatened by plans to build a new beltway, the ''Zuidtangent''. The municipality of Haren has so far resisted thes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gelderland
Gelderland (), also known as Guelders () in English, is a province of the Netherlands, occupying the centre-east of the country. With a total area of of which is water, it is the largest province of the Netherlands by land area, and second by total area. Gelderland shares borders with six other provinces (Flevoland, Limburg, North Brabant, Overijssel, South Holland and Utrecht) and the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The capital is Arnhem (pop. 159,265); however, Nijmegen (pop. 176,731) and Apeldoorn (pop. 162,445) are both larger municipalities. Other major regional centres in Gelderland are Ede, Doetinchem, Zutphen, Harderwijk, Tiel, Wageningen, Zevenaar, and Winterswijk. Gelderland had a population of 2,084,478 as of November 2019. It contains the Netherlands's largest forest region (the Veluwe), the Rhine and other major rivers, and a significant amount of orchards in the south ( Betuwe). History Historically, the province dates from states of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Essen
Bad Essen is a small municipality and health resort in the district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony. Bad Essen with its historical centre is located on the German Timber-Frame Road. Geography The town of Bad Essen is on the North German Plains, because of the transition of the low mountain range to the plains. The Wiehengebirge Range covers approximately the southern third of the town and reaches an elevation of 211m above sea level. The highest point of the Wiehengebirge Range is on the black Brink in Lintorf. The northern part of the town is flat, with an average elevation of 50m above sea level. The Hunte Hunte is a long river in north-western Germany (Lower Saxony), a left tributary of the Weser. The Hunte rises in the Wiehen Hills. In the North German Plain it flows through lake Dümmer. It flows generally northwards through the towns Bad E ... flows through the eastern part of Bad Essen northwards and crosses the Midland Canal in Wittlage. References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esen (other)
Esen may refer to: Given name * Esen Buqa I (1310 - c. 1318), Khan of the Chagatai Khanate * Esen Buqa II (1429–1462), Khan of Moghulistan * Esen Taishi, 15th-century Oirat leader of Northern Yuan dynasty Surname * Aydin Esen (born 1962), Turkish composer * Barış Esen (born 1986), Turkish chess grandmaster * Itır Esen (born 1957), Turkish actress * Emine Ecem Esen (born 1994), Turkish footballer * Nilay Esen Ersun (born 1987), Turkish marathon runner * Timuçin Esen (born 1973), Turkish actor Places * Esen, Belgium, a village in Belgium * Esen, Bulgaria, a village in Bulgaria * Esen, Haymana, a village in Turkey * Esen, Vezirköprü, a village in Turkey * Eşen, Manyas, a village in Turkey Others * ESEN, Escuela Superior de Economía y Negocios en El Salvador, Central America * Esen Air, an airline based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan See also * Esens (other) * Essen (other) Essen is a city in the Ruhr area of Germany. Essen may also refer to: * Spiel or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
