Gelsenkirchen (deu)

Gelsenkirchen

Gelsenkirchen ranks 547th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Daejeon, Espoo, and Compton, California. Memorable people born in Gelsenkirchen include Harald zur Hausen, Werner Mölders, and Manuel Neuer. Memorable people who died in Gelsenkirchen include Fritz Szepan, and Reinhard Libuda. Gelsenkirchen has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many soccer players. Gelsenkirchen is located in Germany.

Gelsenkirchen is the 25th-most populous city of Germany and the 11th-most populous in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia with 262,528 (2016) inhabitants. On the Emscher River, it lies at the centre of the Ruhr area, the largest urban area of Germany, of which it is the fifth-largest city after Dortmund, Essen, Duisburg and Bochum. The Ruhr is located in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, the second-biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. Gelsenkirchen is the fifth-largest city of Westphalia after Dortmund, Bochum, Bielefeld and Münster, and it is one of the southernmost cities in the Low German dialect area. The city is home to the football club Schalke 04, which is named after Gelsenkirchen-Schalke. The club's current stadium Veltins-Arena, however, is located in Gelsenkirchen-Erle. Read more on Wikipedia