Rheinhausen () is a district of the city of

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-Ruh ...

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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 () is a district of the city of Duisburg in Germany, 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 Rhine. Rheinhausen consists of the neighbourhoods: Rumeln-Kald ...

and

Rheinhausen Ost station Rheinhausen Ost (east) is a station designated as a ''Haltepunkt'' (halt) in the Duisburg suburb of Rheinhausen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was built in 1907 after the commissioning of the Rheinhausen–Kleve railway on the ...

on the

Osterath–Dortmund Süd railway The Osterath–Dortmund-Süd railway is a historically significant line in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Parts of it are closed, much of it is now used for freight only, but several sections are still used for Regional-Express, Reg ...

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 (; also Lüdiger or Liudger) ( – 26 March 809) was a missionary among the Frisians and Saxons, founder of Werden Abbey and the first Bishop of Münster in Westphalia. He has been called the "Apostle of Saxony". Early life to ordina ...

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

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, constructed the

Duisburg-Hochfeld rail bridge The Duisburg–Hochfeld railway bridge () spans the Rhine in the German city of Duisburg on the Duisburg-Ruhrort–Mönchengladbach railway, Duisburg-Ruhrort–Mönchengladbach line. The first bridge was built by the Rhenish Railway Company and p ...

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

Krupp Friedrich Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp (formerly Fried. Krupp AG and Friedrich Krupp GmbH), trade name, trading as Krupp, was the largest company in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century as well as Germany's premier weapons manufacturer dur ...

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) Real school (, ) is a type of secondary school in Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It has also existed in Croatia (''realna gimnazija''), the Austrian Empire, the German Empire, Denmark and Norway (''realskole''), Sweden (''realskola''), F ...

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