This wind comes to us from the industrial areas of the Ruhr, which has large amounts of pollutants trapped in under the temperature inversion. |
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In the west are the Ruhr coalfields, while in the east there are large lignite deposits. |
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The Dawes Plan adjusted reparation payments, and France withdrew from the Ruhr. |
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Montgomery wanted a full-scale rush on Berlin via the Ruhr, but this was overruled by the Allies Supreme Commander, Dwight Eisenhower. |
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A bugle blew in the Ruhr on Sunday, sounding the last post for the postwar German model. |
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The largest of these covers 3.6 million people in North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr Basin and Aachen coalfield. |
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Example 8.1 describes a basin action plan to restore water courses in the highly developed Ruhr basin. |
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Even if it hadn't been, the bulk of the Allies' heavy bombers were still required nightly to pummel the Ruhr corridor, the powerhouse of Germany's manufacturing industry. |
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We at the Ruhr Piano Festival have provenly taken these basic ideas of the Initiativkreis Ruhr founders both seriously and literally. |
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To revitalize the Ruhr, state and local governments have invested in research and education, transformed abandoned steelworks into industrial parks, and seeded new startups. |
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That is roughly as many people as in the entire Ruhr region and twice as many as in Berlin. |
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For many years, the SPD was able to achieve an absolute majority in the Ruhr, the former heartland of steel and coal production, in which five million people still live. |
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The Ruhr and Saar coal mining regions delivered the fuel for the country's economic development. |
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Starting in 1943, there was a wave of bombing campaigns on the Ruhr, on major urban centres, as well as on Berlin. |
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Only seven collieries and three coke ovens are still in current operation in the Ruhr region. |
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The aim of the programme is to illustrate the history of change in the region and show how the people in the Ruhr live and work. |
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Economic aspects and strategic sustainable development are two of the key elements for the regeneration of the Emscher valley in the Ruhr. |
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Headquartered in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, Brenntag operates a global network with more than 400 locations in more than 60 countries. |
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The decision-making bodies of the Ruhr Association are the assembly of associates, the supervisory board and the executive board. |
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Bombs would rain on London and Paris as well as on the German cities of the Ruhr and in other French and Belgian areas occupied by the Germans. |
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The dimensions and architecture as well as the huge park demonstrate and illustrate the lordship and self-conception of the large scale manufacturers in the Ruhr area in the 19th century. |
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There are emerging megalopolises in Britain in the region between London and the Midland cities, in Germany in the industrial basin of the Ruhr, and in Japan in the Tokyo Osaka Kyōto complex. |
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One example is Antwerp here in Belgium and the Ruhr area. |
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The Ruhr Association Act sets water charges. |
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Over time, however, the mining industry in the Ruhr has tended to follow the coal reserves, and is advancing northwards into less densely populated areas. |
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Despite all these new roads, saturation is still a serious problem in industrialised urban areas such as the Ruhr, the Randstad, northern Italy and southern England. |
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The group first travelled to the Ruhr area, where the students visited the town of Witten, the cradle of the region's coal mining industry. |
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After that, the Western Allies slowly pushed into Germany, but failed to cross the Ruhr river in a large offensive. |
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In areas affected by immigration in the Ruhr area and Westphalia, as well as in some large cities, religious landscape changed substantially. |
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The iron and coal industries of the Ruhr, the Saar and Upper Silesia especially contributed to that process. |
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When the government failed to make the reparations payments in January 1923, French troops occupied German industrial areas along the Ruhr. |
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Other rivers in the Ruhr Area, above all, the Emscher, still carry a considerable degree of pollution. |
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The last major German forces in the west were encircled and trapped in the Ruhr. |
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Vehicle and engine manufacturing were especially successful, though heavy industry was less ubiquitous than in the Ruhr area. |
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This was particularly important for the emerging industrial centers, most of which were located in the Rhineland, the Saar, and the Ruhr valleys. |
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For example, raw materials could travel up and down the Ruhr Valley without having to unload and reload. |
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The failure of the government of the Weimar Republic to pay these reparations led to the Occupation of the Ruhr by French and Belgian forces. |
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The Ruhr area also contains the longest tram system in the world, with tram and Stadtbahn services from Witten to Krefeld. |
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The Ruhr may henceforth conjure up thoughts of greasepaint, not grease. |
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Others were moved on foot to the river Scheldt and were sent by barge to the Ruhr. |
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By 1809, part of the Ruhr Valley in Westphalia was called 'Miniature England' because of its similarities to the industrial areas of England. |
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This attack will be opened by an annihilating reprisal for English attacks on the Ruhr Basin. |
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Coal from the south was transported to the North Sea port, and imported iron ore was shipped via the canal towards Rhine and the Ruhr. |
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The rivers Rhine, Meuse, and Scheldt give waterway access into the heart of Western Europe, including the highly industrialized Ruhr. |
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Therefore, late in 718, he laid waste their country to the banks of the Weser, the Lippe, and the Ruhr. |
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Further visits to other places in the Ruhr area included the Zollverein UNESCO World Heritage Site. |
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In a location with favourable traffic links, like hardly any other district in the Ruhr region, Rüttenscheid offers the alternative to artificial shopping centres with neon light and poor air. |
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Between 1892 and 1899 the river was canalized to connect it with the Dortmund-Ems Canal in order to provide a German waterborne outlet for the Ruhr industrial district. |
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The WHE is an important building block in the central and northern Ruhr area for the supply nationally and internationally active companies. |
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The move marks an exciting new chapter for the business, which was previously based around 20 miles way in Essen, also in the Ruhr area. |
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All times BST NEXT STOP ON THE TOON'SUMMER TOUR GELSENKIRCHEN is located in the northern part of the Ruhr area. |
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The raid also killed at least 1,650 people, and left much industry in the Ruhr area without electricity, which had been provided by the dams. |
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This fortunate development is also a reflection of the metropolitan Rhine Ruhr area and its great potential for trade and tourism. |
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Much of German industry depended on the water and hydro-electricity produced by the dams in the Ruhr area. |
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Dusseldorf Dsseldorf is at the center of GermanyOs Ruhr Area, which is the 2010 European Capital of Culture. |
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As the Association is responsible for the Ruhr catchment area, it can orient its work towards natural conditions, unhampered by community boundaries. |
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They want to form a new-style metropolis out of the community of 53 cities in the west German Ruhr region, the third largest conurbation in Europe. |
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In some places, the borders between cities in the central Ruhr are unrecognizable due to continuous development across them. |
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The Bergische industry ordered more and more coal from the new coal mining area along the Ruhr river. |
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However, the occupation of the Ruhr caused several direct and indirect consequences on the German economy and government. |
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In addition to the strategic bombing of the Ruhr, in April 1945, the Allies trapped several hundred thousand Wehrmacht troops in the Ruhr Pocket. |
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In 1920, the International Labour Office published a report entitled Coal Production in the Ruhr District. |
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The Ruhr River is only one of half a dozen rivers in the Ruhr district, in addition to the Rhine. |
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It has been claimed that immigrants came to the Ruhr from over 140 different nations. |
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Ruhr is known for its numerous cultural institutions, many of which enjoy international reputation. |
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With more than 50 museums, Ruhr has one of the largest variety of museums in Europe. |
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In addition, Folkwang University of the Arts is an internationally acclaimed art college with its base in the Ruhr region. |
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Furthermore, the universities are not the only places in the Ruhr region where academic qualifications can be obtained. |
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Right at the start of the year two museums, the newly built famous Folkwang Museum in Essen and the new Ruhr Museum at the Zollverein Mine, will provide proof of the Ruhr's ability to change. |
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By the late 19th century the seams were becoming exhausted and the steel industry was importing some coal from the Ruhr. |
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The Occupation of the Ruhr led the Dawes Plan which allowed the German government more leniency in paying reparations. |
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In his paper, using examples of the Ruhr and the Jura he shows how excessive autarchy leads to destruction. |
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It was in May 1943 that the Lancaster bombers of 617 Squadron took off to attack dams in Germany's Ruhr Valley. |
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If you think there's no hope for regions like America's own Detroit, just check the audacious transformation of Germany's Ruhr area. |
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By the late 19th century the seams were becoming exhausted, and the steel industry was importing some coal from the Ruhr. |
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The main mining areas were around Aachen, the Ruhr and Saar area, along with many smaller areas in other parts of Germany. |
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It consists of several large, industrial cities bordered by the rivers Ruhr to the south, Rhine to the west, and Lippe to the north. |
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The urban landscape of the Ruhr extends from the Lower Rhine Basin east to the Westphalian Plain and south to the hills of the Rhenish Massif. |
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Through the centre of the Ruhr runs a segment of the loess belt that extends across Germany from west to east. |
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The coal seams reach the surface in a strip along the River Ruhr and dip downward from the river to the north. |
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This geological feature played a decisive role in the development of coal mining in the Ruhr. |
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In addition, the city boroughs of the Ruhr region have outlying districts with a rural character. |
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Thus the Ruhr is described as a polycentric urban area, which shares a similar history of urban and economic development. |
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Instead, the individual city boroughs and urban districts of the Ruhr grew independently of one another during the Industrial Revolution. |
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The first important mines appeared in the 1750s, in the valleys of the rivers Ruhr, Inde and Wurm where coal seams outcropped and horizontal adit mining was possible. |
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Tourists are discovering the resultant transformation of the Ruhr region from slag heaps and smoke-belching ugliness to a green, leisure-based landscape. |
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Students enrolled at one of the UA Ruhr universities can attend lectures and seminars at all three institutions without having to pay a visiting student fee. |
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During the Cold War, the Western allies anticipated that any Red Army thrust into Western Europe would begin in the Fulda Gap and have the Ruhr as a primary target. |
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For 2010, the Ruhr region was one of the European Capitals of Culture. |
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By March, the Western Allies crossed the Rhine north and south of the Ruhr, encircling the German Army Group B, while the Soviets advanced to Vienna. |
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Dsseldorf is at the center of the Rhine Ruhr area, a bustling network of 53 connected cities, and offers quick access to other destinations and countries. |
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The Rhine itself runs through the heart of the Ruhr district. |
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Between 1923 and 1926, Belgian and French soldiers were sent to the Ruhr in Germany to force the German government to agree to continue reparation payments. |
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The inclusion of four mainly rural districts in the otherwise mainly industrial Ruhr helps to explain the large proportion of agricultural and forested land. |
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The trio are through to the semi-finals of a competition open to authors who live in the Ruhr area of Germany or places twinned with Oberhausen in the Ruhr. |
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Ruhr has three major opera houses and more than 10 theaters and stages. |
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The deported male population would have most likely been used as industrial slave labour in areas of the Reich such as the factories and mines of the Ruhr and Upper Silesia. |
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The Ruhr region has with 22 universities and colleges and more than 250,000 students, the highest density of further education establishments anywhere in Germany. |
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The main tributaries on this stretch are the Ruhr and the Lippe. |
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By 1850, there were almost 300 coal mines in operation in the Ruhr area, in and around the central cities of Duisburg, Essen, Bochum and Dortmund. |
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Before the coal deposits along the Ruhr were exhausted, the mining industry moved northward to the Emscher and finally to the Lippe, drilling ever deeper mines as it went. |
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