Essen (590 000 inhabitants in 2003) is a Ville of Germany, located in the Land of Rhineland-of-North-Westphalia.

Essen is member, since 1920, of the “community of communes of the sector of the Ruhr” ( Regionalverband the Ruhr ), inter-commune structure gathering approximately 5,5 million inhabitants.

In the middle of the industrial area dominated by the iron and steel industry of the empire Krupp, Essen knew to be reconverted after the Second world war downtown pleasant: center city pedestrian, green areas around Baldeneysee (lake Baldeney) crossed by the Ruhr river. The image given by the agglomeration today contrast with the image of cities and suburbs blackened by polluting industries.

Essen will be, in 2010, European Capitale of the culture.

To see in Essen

• the Cathedral and its treasure (Xe and XIIIe): one will see there: the gold virgin (Goldene Madonna), regarded as oldest of Occident (980), and of the processional crosses of Xe and XIe centuries.
• Museum Folkwang: primarily centered on 19th and 20th centuries
• Villa Hügel (1872): remain of the Krupp family, witness of the size of this family of industrialists; an interesting museum is assistant of the villa recalling the history of this floret of iron and steel industry.
• Grugapark, vast park (largest of the kind in center town in Europe) which shelters Grugahalle which sees ravelling spectacles of all kinds.
• Baldeneysee: lake very attended by the inhabitants who come to walk there.
• With the periphery, the town of Werden shelters an abbey church Saint-Leger of XIIe century, mixture of novel and primitive Gothic.
• Zeche Zollverein (Zollverein mine): Startup in 1932,1.200 m of depth 12.000 T of coal extracted per day. This mine was abandoned in 1986. Today, the buildings are used of theater, or for companies of design and institutions of continuing education. It is registered on the list of the Inheritance of UNESCO

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