Bochum (deu)

Bochum

Bochum ranks 693rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Amagasaki, Yokosuka, and Pest, Hungary. Memorable people born in Bochum include Hans Fritzsche, Manfred Eigen, and Gershon Kingsley. Memorable people who died in Bochum include Hermine Braunsteiner, Franz Bäke, and Sascha Lewandowski. Bochum has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many extremists, and military personnels. Bochum is located in Germany.

Bochum is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. With a population of 372,348, it is the sixth-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, one of the most populous German federal states, and the 16th-largest city in Germany. On the Ruhr Heights hill chain, between the rivers Ruhr to the south and Emscher to the north, it is the second largest city of Westphalia after Dortmund, and the fourth largest city of the Ruhr after Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg. It lies at the centre of the Ruhr, Germany's largest urban area, in the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region, the second biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union, and belongs to the region of Arnsberg. Bochum is the sixth largest and one of the southernmost cities in the Low German dialect area. There are nine institutions of higher education in the city, most notably the Ruhr University Bochum, one of the ten largest universities in Germany, and the Bochum University of Applied Sciences. Read more on Wikipedia