Mülheim
Mülheim an der Ruhr, also described as "City on the River", is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It is located in the Ruhr Area between Duisburg, Essen, Oberhausen and Ratingen. It is home to many companies, especially in the food industry, such as the Aldi Süd Company, the Harke Group and the Tengelmann Group.
Mülheim received its town charter in 1808, and 100 years later the population exceeded 100,000, making Mülheim officially a city. At the time of the city's 200th anniversary with approximately 170,000 residents, it was counted among the smaller cities of Germany.
In 1966 Mülheim was the first city in the Ruhr Area to become completely free of coal mines, when its last coal mine "Rosenblumendelle" was closed. The former leather and coal city had successfully made a complete transformation to a diversified economic centre. With more than 50% covered by greenery and forest, the city is regarded as an attractive place to live between Düsseldorf and the rest of the Ruhr. It is the home of two Max Planck Institutes and, since 2009, the technical college Ruhr West. It has a station on the important railway between Dortmund and Duisburg and is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn lines S1 and S3.
Geography
Geographical location
Mülheim an der Ruhr lies at the junction of the hill country of the Lower Bergisches Land, the western Hellweg and the plane of the middle Lower Rhine region.and Essen
The Ruhr leaves the foothills of the Rhenish Massif and enters the Lower Rhine Plain at Mülheim. The Ruhr flows through the city from south-east to north-west for a distance of dividing it into two districts: Broich on its left bank and Kirchenhügel on its right bank. The central city lies on both banks of the river, about east of where the Ruhr discharges into the Rhine. Life in Mülheim is intermediate between the more urban, downstream, Düsseldorf and the more rural life of the upstream Ruhr.
Largest groups of foreign residents by 31.12.2017:
Geology
The northern foothills of the Rhenish Massif are characterised by the distinctive rock formation of the bare mountain slopes through which run coal-bearing layers which formed during the carboniferous period. Here the Ruhr cuts more than 50 meters deep into this Mittelgebirge. This natural erosion partly uncovered these mineable black coal deposits, which enabled their exploration and extraction using adits. However, the coal-rich layers became ever deeper as one progressed northward, which required setting up mines to extract the black coal. In contrast, the broad bayou of Styrum borough is characteristic of the features of the Lower Rhine Plain.Transport
The U18 metro line connects the city with Essen.International relations
Mülheim is twinned with:- Darlington, England, United Kingdom, since 1953
- Tours, France, since 1962
- Opole, Poland, since 1989
- Kfar Saba, Israel, since 1993
- Beykoz, Turkey, since 2007
- Kouvola, Finland, since 2009
Notable bands
- Bohren & der Club of Gore, a jazz & ambient band
Notable clubs
- 1. FC Mülheim, a football club
- VfB Speldorf, a football club
- HTC Uhlenhorst Mülheim, a field hockey club
Notable companies
- Plus, a supermarket chain
- Tengelmann, a holding company
- Aldi Süd Company, a discount supermarket chains
Notable people
- Wilhelm Rittenhausen, founder of the first paper mill in North America.
- Gerhard Tersteegen, a Reformed religious writer.
- Carl Arnold Kortum, a physician, best known for his writing and poetry.
- August Bungert, an opera composer and poet.
- Wilibald Nagel born 1863), a musicologist
- Hugo Stinnes, an industrialist and founder of the German People's Party.
- Fritz Thyssen, an industrialist associated with the Nazi Party of Adolf Hitler.
- Carl Otto von Eicken, an otorhinolaryngologist.
- Heinrich Thyssen, a German-Hungarian entrepreneur and art collector.
- Arthur Kaufmann, an influential painter.
- Walter Hartmann, a general of Artillery, serving during World War II.
- Otto Pankok, a painter, printmaker, and sculptor.
- Otto Roelen, a chemist.
- Karl Ziegler, a chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963, with Giulio Natta, for work on polymers.
- Clärenore Stinnes, a car racer; who was the first human to circumnavigate the world by automobile.
- Werner Best, a jurist, police chief, and Nazi leader.
- Fritz Buchloh, a football goalkeeper at two World Cups in 1934 and 1938, who played for VfB Speldorf.
- Günther Smend, an officer and a resistance fighter involved in the July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
- Johannes Bölter, a German Army tank commander during World War II.
- Karl Albrecht, an entrepreneur who founded the discount supermarket chain Aldi with his brother Theo and among the richest men in the world.
- Theo Albrecht, an entrepreneur who was ranked as the 20th richest person in the world by Forbes magazine in 2007.
- Wilhelm Knabe, an ecologist, pacifist, civil servant, politician and a co-founder of the Green Party in Germany.
- Wim Thoelke, a TV entertainer.
- Hermann Bottenbruch, mathematician and computer scientist
- Jürgen Sundermann, a manager and former footballer.
- Hans Walitza, a retired football striker and manager.
- Rudolf Seliger, a former football striker, who played for MSV Duisburg.
- Bodo Hombach, a politician and Member of the SPD.
- Monika Griefahn, a politician of the SPD.
- Hans-Günter Bruns, a retired footballer.
- Helge Schneider, a comedian, jazz musician, author, film and theatre director, and actor.
- Ralph Morgenstern, a television presenter and actor.
- Albrecht von Croÿ, a journalist
- Ulla Kock am Brink, a television presenter
- Hannelore Kraft, a politician and Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia.
- Ralf Lübke, a retired athlete who specialized in the 200 metres.
- Carolin Emcke, journalist.
- Willi Landgraf, a soccer player, currently playing for the amateurs of Schalke 04.
- Sven Meinhardt, a field hockey forward, who won the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
- Kai Gehring, a politician.
- André Lenz, a football goalkeeper.
- Lars Burgsmüller, a tennis player.
- Marion Rodewald, a field hockey defender, who won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
- Felix Erdmann, a rowing cox.
- Simone Hanselmann, an actress.
- Salih Altın, a football player.
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