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unusual facts about Ruhr Area



Arthur Creech Jones

Among his work for the TGWU, Creech Jones visited the Ruhr Area to observe the effects of French occupation in 1923 (writing a pamphlet about the issue on his return), and helped to train Clements Kadalie of the South African Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union in how to organise a union.

Bolesław Domański

Domański was a fighter for the rights of the Polish minority in Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia, at the time a Prussian province on the border of Germany and Poland, as well as for the rights of Polish emigrants in the Ruhr area.

Dahlbusch Bomb

The Dahlbusch Bomb was developed in May 1955 at the Zeche Dahlbusch coal mine in Gelsenkirchen in Germany's Ruhr area to rescue three miners.

Masurians

Before World War I many Masurians emigrated to the Ruhr Area, especially to Gelsenkirchen.

Ostflucht

Berlin and Brandenburg in the same time gained 1,200,000 inhabitants, while the Ruhr area and surrounding provinces (Westphalia and Palatinate) gained 640,000 people.

South Kirkby and Moorthorpe

The South Kirkby motto is 'Friendship, Unity & Progress', and the town has been twinned with Sprockhövel in the Ruhr Valley of Germany since 1981.

Upper Derwent Valley

The topographical similarity between the Upper Derwent Valley and the Ruhr Valley of Germany led to the dams being used as a practice environment for the Lancaster bombers of the 617 Dam Busters Squadron in 1943 before their attack on the Ruhr dams.

Volker Abramczik

The younger brother of German international Rüdiger Abramczik played during his career exclusively for sides based in the Ruhr Area.


see also

Altenbeken–Kreiensen railway

The Altenbeken–Kreiensen railway is part of a former long-distance route in Germany from the Ruhr area via Altenbeken, Ottbergen, Holzminden, Kreiensen and Seesen towards Berlin.

ConRuhr

With its seats in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, Moscow, Russia, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, ConRuhr’s primary purpose is to encourage educational internationalization by exchanging researchers, teaching staff and students between the three universities and institutions in Eastern Europe and South America, finding and linking contacts in the US, CIS, Brasil and Germany, as well as promoting the Ruhr area as a center of academic excellence.

Eva Gronbach

Summer 2006: „Glück auf“ - Made of former coal miner's working clothes to symbolize the coal workers culture in the Ruhr area.

In 2009 Eva Gronbach lead the designer workshops for students in the Ruhr area that was sponsored by the region North-Rhine Westphalia.

Freikorps Lichtschlag

Subsequently the supporters of the Communist Party (KPD) and the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD) declared a general strike in the Ruhr area.

Kama tank school

This attitude changed however in 1923, when French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr area after Germany defaulted on its reparations.

Methler

Methler has borders with Dortmund, Lünen and Unna, which makes it a well placed small town at the edge of the Ruhr Area.

ROF Glascoed

Among the weapons filled and assembled by ROF Glascoed were the bouncing bomb, designed by Barnes Wallis and delivered to the Ruhr area of Germany by the Dambusters, RAF 617 squadron.