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Timeline Of Duisburg
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Duisburg, Germany. Prior to 20th century * 12thC. - Attained the rank of an imperial free town. * 1290 - Duisburg becomes part of Cleves. * 1361 - Town Hall first mentioned. * 1407 - Admitted into the Hanseatic League. * 1415 - new building construction begins. * 1559 - Geographer Mercator moves to Duisburg. * 1587 - Municipal charter granted. * 1609 - Elector of Brandendburg in power. * 1655 - University of Duisburg founded by Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg. * 1687 - (militia) active (approximate date). * 1714 - Population: 2,983. * 1798 - Population: 4,530. * 1818 - University of Duisburg closed by Frederick William III of Prussia. * 1842 - Sluice harbour built in the . * 1846 - Cologne–Duisburg railway begins operating. * 1848 - Eintracht Duisburg 1848 sportclub founded. * 1853 - Duisberger Gesangverein (singing group) formed. * 1864 - Population: 14,368. * 1866 - Oberhausen–Duisburg-Ruhrort railway in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruhrort
Ruhrort () is a district in the borough of Homberg/Ruhrort/Baerl within the German city of Duisburg situated north of the confluence of the Ruhr (river), Ruhr and the Rhine, in the western part of the Ruhr Area, Ruhr area. Ruhrort has the largest river harbour in the World, with quays extending nearly 40 kilometres along the river, and it is the principal inland shipping port in Germany. History Ruhrort was founded in 1371 as a customs site and was granted town status in 1551. Due to its convenient position on the junction of two important waterways a shipping guild and a harbour had been created by 1665, mainly for trading coal from the Ruhr Valley mines. The harbour was in steady competition with the harbour of Duisburg which was located only 3 kilometers to the south. In 1701 the town fell to Prussia and the government, who had taken over the control over the harbour by 1766, gradually expanded the docks and basins. When the Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn built its railway via the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kreuz Kaiserberg
The Kreuz Kaiserberg (German: ''Autobahnkreuz Kaiserberg'') is a spaghetti junction in the Metropolitan region Rhein-Ruhr in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The interchange forms the connection between the A3, which runs from the Dutch border near Elten via Oberhausen and Frankfurt am Main to the Austrian border south of Passau, and the A40 (''Ruhrschnellweg'') from Venlo to Dortmund. Geography The Kreuz Kaiserberg is located in the city of Duisburg and is called after the 75-metre-high Kaiserberg there. To the west lies the district of Duissern and south of the interchange is the Duisburg Zoo. North of the interchange are the River Ruhr and the Duisburg harbour. Nearby cities are Mülheim an der Ruhr and Oberhausen. The interchange is approximately 3 km east of the city centre of Duisburg. History The building of the interchange began in October 1966. It was opened to traffic in stages between April and June 1969; the connection on the eastern side to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lehmbruck-Museum
The Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum - Center for International Sculpture is a museum in Duisburg, Germany. Sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, after whom the museum is named, make up a large part of its collection. However, the museum has a substantial number of works by other 20th-century sculptors, including Ernst Barlach, Käthe Kollwitz, Ludwig Kasper, Hermann Blumenthal, Alexander Archipenko, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Henri Laurens, Jacques Lipchitz, Alexander Rodtschenko, Laszlo Péri, Naum Gabo, Antoine Pevsner, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst. This is complemented by a considerable number of paintings by 19th- and 20th-century German artists. The museum circulates its substantial collection by re-installing works on an annual basis. Selected collection highlights August Macke - Couple on the Forest Track - Google Art Project.jpg, August Macke Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Mountain Forest Path - Google Art Project.jpg, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner External links *Leh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deutsche Oper Am Rhein
The Deutsche Oper am Rhein (German Opera on the Rhine) is an opera company based in Düsseldorf and Duisburg. The opera also has an associated classical ballet company. Axel Kober has been its music director since 2009. The resident orchestra, the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, play both opera and symphonic repertoire. After the 1875 construction of what became the Düsseldorf ''Opernhaus'', a strong connection between the two cities' opera houses existed from 1887 to 1920, and was not re-established until 1955 with the creation of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. The company performs in the Opernhaus Düsseldorf, built in 1875. It was partially destroyed during World War II, and reconstructed to officially re-open in 1956. Theater Duisburg, built in 1912, was destroyed, and rebuilt in 1950. For the 25th anniversary of the house, Alexander Goehr was commissioned to compose an opera. He wrote '' Behold the Sun'' with a libretto by John McGrath about the anabaptists in Münster. The cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schwanentorbrücke
The ''Schwanentorbrücke ''is a vertical-lift bridge in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, that crosses the Duisburg Inner Harbour The Innenhafen (Inner Harbour) in Duisburg, Germany, is connected to the Rhine River, encompasses an area of . For over a hundred years during the high point of the Industrial Revolution, it was the central harbour and trading point of the to .... The bridge can be vertically raised to allow cargo ships to access the inner city, and lowered to allow cars, trains and pedestrians to cross. The bridge is named after the Schwanenturm (meaning 'watch tower) that protected the city walls in the 13th and 14th centuries. History Before the Schwanentorbrücke was constructed, a smaller bridge served pedestrians and traders. In 1844, a bridge with train tracks was built, and from 1926 to 1929, it was continuously widened and improved. The Schwanentorbrücke was designed by Hans-Siegfried Persch and completed in 1950. When the city updated the trai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brücke Der Solidarität
The Bridge of Solidarity () is a bridge across the Rhine between the boroughs of Rheinhausen and Hochfeld in the city of Duisburg. Bridge history Construction on the bridge's predecessor, the ''Admiral-Graf-Spee-Brücke'', was started on 12 January 1934 and the bridge was inaugurated on 22 May 1936 by then-minister Joseph Goebbels. Total building cost was 6.75 million Reichsmark. Like the Duisburg-Hochfeld Railway Bridge, the bridge was blown up by the retreating Wehrmacht on 4 March 1945. Only the floodplain bridge on the left bank of the Rhine remained. In July 1945, a new bridge was already under construction and the bridge was opened to traffic on 3 July 1950. Following a recommendation of Krupp Stahlbau Rheinhausen, the new bridge was built as a Tied-arch bridge, the largest of its kind in Germany at the time with a span of 255.9 metres. While the previous bridge had four lanes, the British Military government insisted on a three-lane bridge. The bridge was thoroughl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bombing Of Duisburg In World War II
Duisburg was bombed a number of times by the Allies during World War II. The most devastating air raids on Duisburg occurred during October 1944 when the city was bombed by the Royal Air Force (RAF). Duisburg was a major logistical centre in the Ruhr Area and location of chemical, steel and iron industries, Duisburg was a primary target of Allied bombers. Not only the industrial areas but also residential areas were attacked by Allied bombs. As an entry to the Ruhr, the city received daily warnings of bombing raids in 1943. In the period 1939 to 1945 the Royal Air Force dropped a total of of bombs on Duisburg. Battle of the Ruhr During the " Battle of the Ruhr" in 1943, 577 British bombers destroyed the old city on 12/13 May, with of bombs: 96,000 people were made homeless. Operation Hurricane In October 1944, Duisburg became the main target in Operation Hurricane a joint RAF Bomber Command and USAAF Eighth Air Force operation. On 14 October 1944 just after daybreak, RAF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CRC Press
The CRC Press, LLC is an American publishing group that specializes in producing technical books. Many of their books relate to engineering, science and mathematics. Their scope also includes books on business, forensics and information technology. CRC Press is now a division of Taylor & Francis, itself a subsidiary of Informa. History The CRC Press was founded as the Chemical Rubber Company (CRC) in 1903 by brothers Arthur, Leo and Emanuel Friedman in Cleveland, Ohio, based on an earlier enterprise by Arthur, who had begun selling rubber laboratory aprons in 1900. The company gradually expanded to include sales of laboratory equipment to chemist A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a graduated scientist trained in the study of chemistry, or an officially enrolled student in the field. Chemists study the composition of ...s. In 1913 the CRC offered a short (116-page) manual called the ''Rubber Handboo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duisburg Zoo
The Duisburg Zoo, founded on 12 May 1934, is one of the largest zoological gardens in Germany. It is especially well known for its dolphinarium and, since 1994, for breeding koalas. Far less well known are the breeding successes in other areas, for example, with fossas (carnivorous mammals from Madagascar) and red river hogs. The zoo is located in the northern part of the Duisburg urban forest on the border with Mülheim on the Ruhr. Federal highway A 3 divides the zoo into western and an eastern parts, which are joined by a leafy country bridge. The highway is scarcely noticeable to the visitors. History The Duisburg Zoo was founded in 1934 as the ''Duisburg-Hamborner Tierpark am Kaiserberg''. In 1936, the zoo began to grow from a small animal park with its first (loaned) elephant. With the beginning of World War II in 1939, the zoo had to be closed. Only in 1946 was the zoo re-opened with animals loaned from the Hellabrunn Zoo in Munich. In 1952, the zoo could register t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamborn
Hamborn is a district of the city of Duisburg, in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany). Hamborn has a population of 71,528 an area of 20.84 km2. Since 1 January 1975, has been one of seven districts or boroughs (Stadtbezirk) of Duisburg. History The city of Hamborn was incorporated into Duisburg in 1929. Until the merger, Hamborn was an independent city and at that time was one of the 40 largest cities in Germany.Adolf Liebers, Westermanns Weltatlas: mit erläuterndem Text und einem alphabetischen Namenverzeichnis(Komet, 2005) Earliest mention of Hamborn is around 962Anno Domini, AD as Havenburn, meaning Cattle trough. The land was given to the Archbishop of Cologne, to build a Premonstratensian monastery in 1136 by count Gerhard von Hochstaden. The Hamborn Abbey, Abbey and the neighboring farming communities were part of the Duchy of Cleves and became in 1666AD part of Brandenburg, Prussia. Until the early 19th century Hamborn was still a small village. Climate Landmarks La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
