Gelsenkirchen Sightseeing and Attractions

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Gelsenkirchen Top 10 Attractions

#1 Mathias-Stinnes-Stadion

Category: Landmark - Coordinates: 51.5236, 7.00889 - Distance: mi
"Mathias-Stinnes-Stadion" is a multi-use stadium in Essen, Germany. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium has a capacity of 12,000 ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias-Stinnes-Stadion

#2 Gelsenkirchen

Category: City - Coordinates: 51.5058, 7.1025 - Distance: mi
, Germany. It is located in the northern part of the Ruhr area. Its population in 2006 was c. 267,000. Gelsenkirchen was first documented in 1150, but it remained a tiny village until the 19th century, when the Industrial Revolution led to the growth of the entire area. In 1840, when the mining of coal began, 6000 inhabitants lived in Gelsenkirchen; in 1900 the population had increased to ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelsenkirchen

#3 Veltins-Arena

Category: Landmark - Coordinates: 51.5544, 7.0675 - Distance: mi
stadium in the German city of Gelsenkirchen that is considered one of the most modern stadiums in the world. Originally named the "Arena AufSchalke", it opened in 2001 as the new home ground for the Bundesliga football club FC Schalke 04. It hosted the 2004 UEFA Champions League final and 5 matches in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, including a quarter-final ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veltins-Arena

#4 Essen-Nordviertel

Category: Landmark - Coordinates: 51.4706, 7.01472 - Distance: mi
The "Nordviertel" is the most northern borough of the city district Stadtbezirk I Stadtmitte/Frillendorf/Huttrop. Nordviertel has 7,308 inhabitants and is therefore one of the smallest boroughs of Essen. It has a surface of 2.86 km² and lies on an average height of 48 metres over the sealevel. The biggest part exists of residential cultivation ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essen-Nordviertel

#5 Leithe

Category: City - Coordinates: 51.4817, 7.11124 - Distance: mi
"Leithe" is the northwesternmost part of the City of Bochum in the Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. The population used to speak Westphalian, but now standard German is the norm. Leithe borders to a part of the city of Essen also bearing the name of Leithe. Leithe belongs to the "Stadtbezirk" (district of the town) of Wattenscheid ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leithe

#6 Essen Cityhall

Category: Landmark - Coordinates: 51.4581, 7.01611 - Distance: mi
The "city hall of Essen" (german: Rathaus Essen) is one of the tallest city halls in Europe. It became in July, 1st. 1979 opens and was the highest city hall of Europe at the time.It has a base of more than 300,000 square metres on 22 ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essen_Cityhall

#7 Alte Synagoge

Category: Landmark - Coordinates: 51.4564, 7.01667 - Distance: mi
The ""Alte Synagoge"" (en: Old Synagogue) is a cultural meeting center and memorial in the city of Essen in West Germany. It is located in the center of the city on Steeler Straße 29, close to the present city hall. The memorial center was founded in 1980 and is accommodated in the pre-war Jewish community's synagogue ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alte_Synagoge

#8 Essen Hauptbahnhof

Category: Landmark - Coordinates: 51.4514, 7.01389 - Distance: mi
is the Hauptbahnhof for the city of Essen in western Germany. It is situated south of the old town centre, next to the A 40 motorway. It was opened in 1862 by the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn. However, the station was not the first on Essen soil, as the station "Essen" (today Essen-Altenessen on the Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn was opened in 1847 ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essen_Hauptbahnhof

#9 Essen

Category: City - Coordinates: 51.45, 7.01667 - Distance: mi
:"This article is about the city in Germany. For other places with the same name, see Essen (disambiguation)". "Essen" is a city in the center of the Ruhr Area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Located on the Ruhr River, its population of approximately 582,000 (as of December 31, 2006) makes it the 7th- or 8th-largest city in Germany ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essen

#10 RWE tower

Category: Landmark - Coordinates: 51.4481, 7.01417 - Distance: mi
The "RWE Tower" is the highest building in the Ruhr area and one of the highest building in germany. This building was the first ecological building of the world. The building is used nowadays by the RWE AG. It is also one of the special landmarks of the city, because it shows the cultural and industrial change of the region ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RWE_tower

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