Oberhausen

Oberhausen (ō`bərhou'zən), city (1994 pop. 226,254), North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany, an industrial center of the Ruhr district. It is a port on the Rhine-Herne Canal and a rail junction; it has railway workshops and a large thermoelectric plant. Manufactures include iron and steel, coal, refined zinc, dyes, steam boilers, wire rope, glass, machinery, and chemicals. The first German steam engine was built in Sterkrade, now a district of Oberhausen, in 1814. Oberhausen was chartered in 1874.

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Oberhausen

an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia on the Rhine-Herne Canal: site of the first ironworks in the Ruhr. Pop.: 220 033 (2003 est.)

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Oberhausen 

a city in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), located in the Land (state) of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr. Adjoins Duisburg on the west and Essen on the east. Population, 242,600 (1973). Major railroad junction (freight turnover, 8–9 million tons) and a port on the Rhine-Herne Canal.

Oberhausen is an important industrial center. It has heavy machine building (boilermaking, chemical and metallurgical equipment), ferrous metallurgy, coal mining, chemical industry, and petroleum refining. There is an economic management academy in the city. Annual film festivals of short subjects are held in Oberhausen. [18–531–2; updated]