Description: Bochum - German Bochum is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the Ruhr area between the cities of Essen and Dortmund. Although Bochum was founded in the 14th C, the town was insignificant until the 19th C, when coal mining and steel industry emerged in the Ruhr area, leading to the growth of the entire region. The population of Bochum increased tenfold between 1850 and 1890. In World War II the city was heavily bombed by English and American bombers. Nearly the whole inner circle of the city was destroyed and many thousand citizens were killed. Between 1960 and 1980 all the mines were closed. Other industries, such as car making, compensated for the loss of jobs. In 1965 the Ruhr University was opened, the first university in the Ruhr area and the first to be founded in Germany since WWII. In the course of a comprehensive community reform in 1975, Wattenscheid, a formerly independent city, was integrated into the urban area of Bochum. An exerted local referendum against the integration failed. Two castles from the Middle Ages survive on the northern banks of the Ruhr river. More famous are the German Mining Museum, the musical Starlight Express (opening show in 1988) and the nostalgic Train Museum in the borough of Dahlhausen. Bochum has its own brewery, Moritz Fiege which produces pilsner, a low alcohol pilsner & hell style beers This is an unused item in mint condition still in the manufacturers bag and measuring approx. 1.60 cm by 2.00 cm in size. Thank you all for your interest. Please check my ebay store for many hundreds and hundreds of additional walking stick pins and hat pins. http://stores.ebay.com/Four-Winds-Products
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Location: Richmond, Virginia
End Time: 2025-01-21T02:57:14.000Z
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