rk), city (1994 pop. 536,800), North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany, at the confluence of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers. Located in the Ruhr Ruhr , region, c.1,300 sq mi (3,370 sq km), W Germany; a principal manufacturing center of Germany and formerly known as one of the world's greatest industrial complexes. In the 1980s the coal and steel industries declined, leading to serious unemployment...... Click the link for more information. district, it is the largest inland port in the world and a center for iron and steel production. Other manufactures include shipbuilding, brewing, heavy machinery, textiles, chemicals, and metal and wood products. The city is home to one of the world's longest span truss bridges, the Duisburg-Neuenkamp Bridge, which stretches 1,148 feet (350 m) across the Rhine. Duisburg was a port in Roman times. It passed to the duchy of Cleves in 1290, and in 1614 was acquired, with Cleves, by Brandenburg. Its growth as an industrial center dates from c.1850. As a center of the German armaments industry, the city was heavily bombed during World War II. The Gothic Salvator Church is the burial place of the geographer and cartographer G. Mercator Mercator, Gerardus , Latin form of Gerhard Kremer , 1512–94, Flemish geographer, mathematician, and cartographer. He studied in Louvain, where he had a geographical establishment (1534). From 1537 to 1540 he surveyed and mapped Flanders.
..... Click the link for more information. . Wilhelm Lehmbruck Lehmbruck, Wilhelm , 1881–1919, German sculptor. He studied at Düsseldorf and went to Paris in 1910. Influenced at first by Rodin, Brancusi, and Maillol, he later arrived at his own highly individual style.
..... Click the link for more information. , the sculptor, was born in Duisburg, and his works are displayed there in a museum. The annexation in 1975 of four surrounding cities greatly enlarged Duisburg.
Duisburg
City (pop., 2002 est.: 478,600), North Rhine–Westphalia state, western Germany. It lies at the junction of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers and is connected with the North Sea ports by the Rhine-Herne Canal. Known to the Romans as Castrum Deutonis, it was mentioned in AD 740 as Diuspargum, a seat of the Frankish kings. It passed to Cleves in 1290 and, with Cleves, to Brandenburg in 1614. After suffering heavily in the Thirty Years' War, it revived as the seat of a Protestant university from 1655 to 1818. With increasing industrialization after 1880, it is now one of the world's largest inland ports.
Duisburg
Duisburg
a city in the Federal Republic of Germany, in the Land of Nordrhein-Westphalen. Population, 457,900 (1970), compared with 501,000 in 1963 and 434,600 in 1939. Situated on the right bank of the Rhine, at the mouth of the Ruhr River and the beginning of the Rhine-Herne Canal.
Duisburg, one of West Germany’s major river ports (Duisburg-Ruhrort), is accessible to ocean vessels and had a freight turnover of 40.5 million tons in 1969. It is also West Germany’s second most important railroad hub, with a freight turnover of 21 million tons in 1968, and a major industrial center, employing about 150,000 workers. Duisburg contains about one-fourth of the production capacity of West Germany’s ferrous metallurgy (the August Thyssen Foundry, the Niederrheinische Foundry, and the Ruhrort-Meiderich plant) and a considerable part of nonferrous metallurgy (the Duisburger Copper Foundry plants). Also concentrated in Duisberg are the output of structural steel and heavy machines (the Demag, Mannesmann, and other plants), as well as river shipbuilding (more than one-third of river shipbuilding in West Germany is done in Duisberg). Other industries include oil refining, chemical production (including petrochemistry, basic inorganic chemistry, and coal chemistry), flour milling, beer brewing, and tobacco processing. There are coal mines in Duisburg and its surroundings. Cargoes arriving on the Rhine include mostly ores, scrap metals, petroleum, lumber products, and grain; exports are mainly coal, coke, metals, and machines. Welding and river-shipbuilding institutes are located in Duisburg. Four bridges span the Rhine. The city has been known since the 13th century. Several suburbs were incorporated into Duisburg in 1905 and even more in 1929, including such important centers as Ruhrort.
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