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Castrop-Rauxel

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Castrop-Rauxel

 

a city in the Federal Republic of Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia, near Dortmund. Population, 84,000 (1970). River port on the Rhine-Herne Canal (freight turnover, 1.4 million tons). It is one of the coal-mining centers of the Ruhr. In addition to coal mining, there is chemical (nitrogen), petrochemical, and cement industry and the manufacture of pipe and metal items.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Udo Bonnet, Klinik fur Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Castrop-Rauxel, Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus der Universitat Duisburg/Essen, Grutholzallee 21, D-44577 Castrop-Rauxel, Germany; email: udo.bonnet@uni-due.de
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