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Meiderich
Meiderich is a quarter of the city of Duisburg. It is divided into Unter-, Mittel- and Obermeiderich. Meiderich belongs to the city district Meiderich/Beeck, which started in 1975, during the course of municipal reorganization. On 31 December 2004, 75,000 people lived in the district. Meiderich/Beeck has seven quarters: Beeck, Beeckerwerth, Bruckhausen, Laar, Mittel-, Ober- and Untermeiderich. Meiderich was first mentioned in the beginning of the 10th century as "Medriki", that means "moist area", in a document of the Werden Abbey. The first church was built in the 13th century. In the Middle Ages there was the village Meiderich surrounded by seven areas of accumulated farms: Berchum, Berg, Borkhofen, Dümpten, Lakum, Lösort and Vohwinkel. The association-football club MSV Duisburg, currently taking part in the third division ("Dritte Liga") in Germany is based in Meiderich; the club's name MSV is derived from "Meidericher Spielverein". Public transport ''Meiderich Bf.'' is a ...
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Duisburg
Duisburg (; , ) is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Lying on the confluence of the Rhine (Lower Rhine) and the Ruhr (river), Ruhr rivers in the center of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, Rhine-Ruhr Region, Duisburg is the 5th largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, 15th-largest city in Germany. In the Middle Ages, it was a city-state and a member of the Hanseatic League, and later became a major centre of the iron, steel, and chemicals industries. For this reason, it was heavily bombed in World War II. Today it boasts the world's largest inland port, with 21 docks and 40 kilometres of wharf. Status Duisburg is a city in Germany's Rhineland, the fifth-largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund and Essen) in the nation's most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Its 500,000 inhabitants make it Germany's List of cities in Germany by p ...
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DEU Meiderich COA
DEU may refer to: *Deutsche Eislauf-Union, the figure skating governing body in Germany *''Diccionario del español del Uruguay'', the Dictionary of Uruguayan Spanish *Distinctive environmental uniform, the current uniform of the Canadian Forces, adopted in the late 1980s *Doom Editing Utility, a software utility for the computer game Doom * The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Germany (German ''Deutschland'') * The ISO 639-2 (T) and ISO 639-3 code for Standard German * Drug Enforcement Unit, a specialised police unit *Dokuz Eylül University Dokuz Eylül University () (DEÜ) is a Public university, public research university in İzmir, Turkey. Founded in 1982, it is organized into 18 faculties. It holds the distinction of being the first university in Turkey to implement the probl ...
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Beeckerwerth
Beeckerwerth is a district of Duisburg located in a bend right of the Rhine. It has a population of 3,807 and an area of 7.62 km2. History Until the Middle Ages, Beeckerwerth was surrounded by water on all sides: on the west and northwest by the Rhine, on the east and northeast by the Emscher and on the south by a branch of the Emscher called the Monnarde. This is the origin of the name of Beeckerwerth, which means "Island of Beeck" in Old German. The house of Beeck ruled over Beeckerwerth since the 13th century. Their castle, Haus Knipp, was first mentioned in 1292. It served as their court until its destruction in 1571. It was rebuilt further inland in 1620. Beeckerwerth became a borough of Duisburg on 1 October 1905, together with Beeck, Laar and Ruhrort. The industrialist August Thyssen purchased most of Beeckerwerth, including Haus Knipp, in the early 20th century. Haus Knipp was destroyed in 1939 when the dam was extended. The Haus-Knipp-Railroad-Bridge, which wa ...
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Werden Abbey
Werden Abbey () was a Benedictine monastery in Essen-Werden (Germany), situated on the Ruhr. The foundation of the abbey Near Essen Saint Ludger founded a monastery in 799 and became its first abbot. The little church which Saint Ludger built here in honor of Saint Stephen was completed in 804 and dedicated by Saint Ludger himself, who had meanwhile become Bishop of Münster. Upon the death of Ludger on 26 March 809, the abbacy of Werden passed by inheritance first to his younger brother Hildigrim I (809–827), then successively to four of his nephews: Gerfried (827–839), Thiadgrim (ruled less than a year), Altfried (839–848), Hildigrim II (849–887). Under Hildigrim I, also Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne, the new monastery of Helmstedt in the Diocese of Halberstadt was founded from Werden. It was ruled over by a provost, and remained a dependency of Werden till its secularization in 1803. Werden was a wealthy abbey with possessions in Westphalia, Frisia, eastern ...
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Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr
The Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (), abbreviated VRR, is a public transport association (Verkehrsverbund) in the Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It covers large parts of the Ruhr, Ruhr area, the Lower Rhine region including Düsseldorf and the Rhine-Ruhr conurbation. It was founded on , and is Europe’s largest public Transport association, covering an area of some with more than 8.1 million inhabitants, spanning as far as Dorsten in the north, Dortmund in the east, Langenfeld (Rhineland), Langenfeld in the south, and the Netherlands, Dutch border in the west and northwest. Structure and responsibilities The VRR is tasked with coordinating public transport in its area. This means the following: * setting and developing the fare system (VRR tariff) ** redistributing ticket revenue onto the transport companies * coordinating local train services (''Schienenpersonennahverkehr'', SPNV) within its area as Public service obligation, public service obligations (PSO) ...
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Duisburg Hbf
Duisburg Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the city of Duisburg in western Germany. It is situated at the meeting point of many important national and international railway lines in the Northwestern Ruhr valley. Lines The station is situated at the northern end of the relatively straight Duisburg to Düsseldorf railway line which has to cope with one of the highest daily loads in continental Europe. This line is slated to be widened to six tracks in the near future. Currently it has four—and in some places five—tracks. The line to Krefeld and Mönchengladbach runs to the south. This crosses the River Rhine and then splits into the main line and a branch to Moers and Xanten at Rheinhausen. North of the station, seven tracks run to the River Ruhr crossing (which is a sight on the '' Route der Industriekultur'' (Route of industrial heritage) due to a maze of girder bridges) where a three track line split for Oberhausen and on to Arnhem and the other line runs to Dortmun ...
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Düsseldorf-Stadtmitte
Stadtmitte (meaning: ''city centre'') is an urban quarter in the central Borough 1 (Düsseldorf), Borough 1 of Düsseldorf, Germany. Stadtmitte borders with Düsseldorf-Carlstadt, Carlstadt, Pempelfort, Oberbilk and the old town of Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf-Altstadt. Stadtmitte has an area of , and 14,654 inhabitants (2020). In the Stadtmitte there are: * Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof, the Main Station for Düsseldorf * the Schadowstraße - one of the highest turnover shopping streets in Europe * the greatest theatre of Düsseldorf (Schauspielhaus) * the stock exchange of Düsseldorf * WestLB, the central bank of North Rhine-Westphalia (Landeszentralbank) * ThyssenKrupp, Thyssen-Haus (Dreischeibenhaus) * the Königsallee, short Kö, a prominent shopping street. File:Koenigsalle-3.JPG, Department store on Königsallee File:Sevens Düsseldorf Königsallee.jpg, "Sevens" shopping arcade File:Schauspielhaus 004 aussen FotoSebastianHoppe.jpg, Schauspielhaus Image:Hauptbahnhof in Duessel ...
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