Oberhausen
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| Coordinates: 51°29′48″N 06°52′14″E / 51.49667°N 6.87056°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Admin. region | Düsseldorf |
| District | Urban districts of Germany |
| Government | |
| • Lord mayor | Daniel Schranz (CDU) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 77.04 km2 (29.75 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 78 m (256 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31)[1] | |
| • Total | 210,824 |
| • Density | 2,700/km2 (7,100/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 46001-46149 |
| Dialling codes | 0208 |
| Vehicle registration | OB |
| Website | City of Oberhausen (de) |
Oberhausen (/ˈoʊbərhaʊzən/,[2][3][4] German: [ˈoːbɐhaʊzn̩] ) is a city on the river Emscher in the Ruhr Area, Germany, located between Duisburg and Essen (c. 13 km or 8.1 mi). The city hosts the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and its Gasometer Oberhausen is an anchor point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
History
Oberhausen was named for its 1847 railway station which had taken its name from the Oberhausen Castle (German: Schloss Oberhausen). The new borough was formed in 1862 following inflow of people for the local coal mines and steel mills. Awarded town rights in 1874, Oberhausen absorbed several neighbouring boroughs including Alstaden, parts of Styrum and Dümpten in 1910. Oberhausen became a city in 1901, and they incorporated the towns of Sterkrade and Osterfeld in 1929. The Ruhrchemie AG synthetic oil plant ("Oberhausen-Holten" or "Sterkrade/Holten")[5] was a bombing target of the oil campaign of World War II, and the US forces reached the plant by 4 April 1945.
In 1973, Thyssen AG employed 14,000 people in Oberhausen in the steel industry, but ten years later the number had fallen to 6,000.[6]
In 1954 the city began hosting the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, and the 1982 Deutscher Filmpreis was awarded to a group that wrote the Oberhausen Manifesto.
Demographics
Population development since 1862:
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 1862 | 5,590 | — |
| 1871 | 12,805 | +129.1% |
| 1900 | 42,148 | +229.2% |
| 1910 | 89,900 | +113.3% |
| 1919 | 98,677 | +9.8% |
| 1925 | 105,121 | +6.5% |
| 1933 | 192,345 | +83.0% |
| 1939 | 191,842 | −0.3% |
| 1950 | 202,808 | +5.7% |
| 1961 | 256,773 | +26.6% |
| 1970 | 246,736 | −3.9% |
| 1987 | 220,286 | −10.7% |
| 2001 | 221,619 | +0.6% |
| 2011 | 210,216 | −5.1% |
| 2017 | 211,422 | +0.6% |
| source:[7][circular reference] | ||
The age breakdown of the population (2013) is:[8]
| <18 years | 15.6% |
| 18–64 years | 63.3% |
| >64 years | 21.1% |
There were 12.5% non-Germans living in Oberhausen, as of 2014.[9]
The unemployment rate is 10.4% (Jul 2020).[10]
Migrant communities in Oberhausen by 31.12.2017:
 Turkey |
8,560 |
 Syria |
2,315 |
 Serbia |
2,090 |
 Italy |
2,005 |
 Poland |
1,840 |
Gallery
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Gasometer -
Castle Oberhausen as seen from the Gasometer -
Industrial Museum -
Courthouse -
Baumeister-Mill -
Castle Vondern -
Kastell Holten -
Ruhr meadows in Oberhausen-Alstaden -
CentrO shopping mall -
Schloss Oberhausen – inner courtyard with little castle -
AQUApark near CentrO in 2012
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International relations
Twin towns – sister cities
Oberhausen is twinned with:[11]
Middlesbrough, United Kingdom, since 1974[12]
Zaporizhia, Ukraine, since 1986[13]
Freital, Germany, since 1990
Carbonia, Italy, since 2002- Iglesias, Italy, since 2002
Mersin, Turkey, since 2004
Notable residents
Born before 1935
- Georg Schaltenbrand (1897–1979), author, neurologist and Multiple Sclerosis specialist
- Reni Erkens (1909–1987), swimmer, Summer Olympics 1928
- Wilhelm Brinkmann (1910–1991), field handball player
- Erich Kempka (1910–1975), SS-officer and Adolf Hitler's driver
- Werner Töniges (1910–1995), naval officer
- Willy Jürissen (1912–1990), German national football team
- Édouard Wawrzyniak (1912–1991), French national football team
- Will Quadflieg (1914–2003), actor
- Alf Marholm (1918–2006), actor, radio plays, audio books and voice
- Arnulf Zitelmann (born 1929), writer
- Paul Lange (1931–2016), kayaker, Olympic champion
- Karl-Heinz Feldkamp (born 1934), football player and trainer
- Hans Wagner (1934–1993), politician (CDU), member of parliament (North Rhine-Westphalia)
- Wilhelm Keim (born 1934), chemist and professor for technical chemistry
Born after 1935
- Theo Vennemann (born 1937), linguist and professor of German and theoretical linguistics
- Hans-Josef Dreckmann (born 1938), journalist and correspondent
- Siegfried Jerusalem (born 1940), opera singer
- Hans Siemensmeyer (born 1940), football player and coach
- Wolf-Dieter Ahlenfelder (1944–2014), football referee
- Tilman Spengler (born 1947), writer and journalist, author and co-editor of the magazine Kursbuch
- Eckhard Stratmann-Mertens (born 1948), teacher and politician (Alliance '90 / The Greens), Member of Bundestag
- Ditmar Jakobs (born 1953), football player
- Willi Wülbeck (born 1954), athlete
- Achim Hofer (born 1955), musicologist
- Christoph Klimke (born 1959), writer
- Michael Grosse-Brömer (born 1960), politician (CDU), Member of Bundestag
- Christoph Schlingensief (1960–2010), film and theater director, radio play writer and performance artist
- Dirk Balthaus (born 1965), jazz pianist and composer
- Esther Schweins (born 1970), actress and comedian
- Markus Feldhoff (born 1974), football player
- Mark Kleinschmidt (born 1974), rower
References
- ^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden Nordrhein-Westfalens am 31. Dezember 2022 – Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes auf Basis des Zensus vom 9. Mai 2011" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
- ^ "Oberhausen". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
- ^ "Oberhausen" (US) and "Oberhausen". Oxford Dictionaries UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. n.d. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
- ^ "Oberhausen". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
- ^ Powell, A.R. (9–10 January 1945). "Detailed Summary of meeting of Oil Mission Held in New Interior Building" (PDF). Enemy Oil Intelligence Committee. p. 17 (p61 of pdf). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 August 2008. Retrieved 25 March 2009.
- ^ John Tagliabue (27 November 1983). "The Twilight of the Industrial Ruhr". New York Times. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ Link
- ^ "Demografiebericht AG Ruhr" (PDF). Arbeitsgemeinschaft der kommunalen Statistikstellen der Metropole Ruhr.
- ^ "2.02 Fläche und Bevölkerung nach Statistischen Bezirken 2014" (PDF). Statistisches Jahrbuch 2015 der Stadt Oberhausen (in German). Stadt Oberhausen. January 2015. p. 31. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
- ^ "Oberhausen – statistik.arbeitsagentur.de". statistik.arbeitsagentur.de. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
- ^ "Ratsangelegenheiten: Städtepartnerschaften der Stadt Oberhausen" (in German). Büro für Interkultur, Stadt Oberhausen. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
- ^ "Town Twinning". Middlesbrough Council. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
- ^ Міста-побратими м. Запоріжжя [Twin Cities Zaporozhye]. City of Zaporizhia (in Ukrainian). Шановні відвідувачі і користувачі сайту. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
External links
- . Encyclopedia Americana. 1920.
- . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.
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