Portraits of towns
You can find small lists of links for further interesting themes at the beginning and the end of the portraits of towns!
Further portraits of towns will follow in future!
BOCHUM
Cars, culture, an university, history and a lot of nature
BOTTROP
A typical town of the Ruhr - district - may be?
CASTROP - RAUXEL
The town in the center of the Emscher region offers a surprising beautiful nature
COLOGNE (KÖLN)
offers a lot of things: carnival, movie- and tv industry and a very old dome
DATTELN
Datteln has got three canals, the town in the near of the Muenster region
DORSTEN
offers a lot of nature and a countrylike sorroundings
DORTMUND
Soccor, beer, coal, steal, the eastern metropole of the Ruhr district
DUISBURG
Stael, coal, a big port, sport and culture
DUESSELDORF
The capital of Northrhine - Westphalia has got a metroplolitan flair
ESSEN
The biggest town of the Ruhr - district. Steal, energy, Krupp, history and future
GELSENKIRCHEN
Industry, steal and soccor, and a typical image of the classic Ruhr - district
GLADBECK
A town in the north of Essen
HAGEN
The south eastern gate of the Ruhr - district to the Sauerland. Iron manufacturing industry, paper - factories and a distant university
HALTERN
No industry, but a lot of nature and recreation
HATTINGEN
A town in the south of the Ruhr, history, nature and recreation
HERNE
The town in the center of the Ruhr - district
HERTEN
Herten was the biggest coal mining town of Europe fo a time
HILDEN
A liitle neighbour town of Duesseldorf Benrath
KREFELD
I can only offer pictures from
Krefeld main railroad station
and from the very impressive
Linn castle
at the moment
LUEDINGHAUSEN
The little town of the rural district Coesfeld belongs to the Muenster region
MARL
Chemistry, coal mining and culture
MOENCHENGLADBACH
The town at the left side of the Rhine offers soccor and textile industry. The netherlands are not far away.
MUELHEIM RUHR
The town in the beautiful valley of the Ruhr is very atttractive
MUENSTER
IN WESTPHALIA
The capital of the Muenster region, administration, history and an university
NEUSS
The 2.000 year old industrial town at the left side of the Rhine in the near of Duesseldorf
OBERHAUSEN
RHINE REGION
Industry, culture and a lot of more...
OER ERCKENSCHWICK
A smaller town in the eastern part of the rural district Recklinghausen
RECKLINGHAUSEN
Rural district town of one of the biggest rural districts of the FRG, connection between the Ruhr - district and the Muenster - region.
VELBERT
I can only offer photos from the historical city section
Langenberg
and from the place of pilgrimage
Neviges
at the moment
VENLO
The town in the province of Limburg at the river Maas
WALTROP
A smaller town in the north eastern part of the rural district Recklinghausen
WANNE - EICKEL
The world wide known town in the heart of the Ruhr - district existed only about 50 years
WATTENSCHEID
A smaller town in the center of the Ruhr - district, but a town with a big identity
WITTEN
The town in the southern Ruhr - district belongs to the Ennepe - Ruhr rural district
WUPPERTAL
The town in the valley of the Wupper offers more than the famous suspended railroad