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Essen

Essen is a city in in . A highlight of Essen is Zeche Zollverein, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with several museums. It is also famous for its Bauhaus architecture.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Museum Folkwang and Essen Central Station.

Museum
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is a major collection of 19th- and 20th-century art in Essen, Germany. The museum was established in 1922 by merging the Essener Kunstmuseum, which was founded in 1906, and the private Folkwang Museum of the collector and patron Karl Ernst Osthaus in , founded in 1902.

Railway station
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Essen Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the city of Essen in western Germany. It is situated south of the old town centre, next to the A 40 motorway.

Theater building
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The is a performing arts venue in Essen, Germany, and is home to the city's opera company Aalto-Musiktheater and the ballet company Aalto Ballett.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Margarethenhöhe and Altenessen.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
is a northern borough of the city of Essen, . Officially it is divided into the two boroughs of Altenessen-Nord and Altenessen-Süd. Because of its size, was divided into two parts, when it was incorporated into the city of Essen in 1915.

Suburb
is a northwestern borough of the city of Essen, . It was incorporated into the city in 1915. Before it had been part of the Bürgermeisterei Borbeck.

Essen

Latitude
51.4582° or 51° 27′ 30″ north
Longitude
7.0158° or 7° 0′ 57″ east
Population
570,000
Elevation
83 metres (272 feet)
IATA airport code
ESS
United Nations Location Code
DE ESS
Open location code
9F39F258+78
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27350363
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2928810
Wiki­data ID
Q2066
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Essen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Essen, Duitsland”
  • Afrikaans: “Essen”
  • Albanian: “Essen”
  • Amharic: “ኧስን”
  • Arabic: “أسن”
  • Arabic: “إسن”
  • Arabic: “إيسن”
  • Arabic: “ايسن”
  • Aragonese: “Essen”
  • Armenian: “Էսսեն”
  • Arpitan: “Essen”
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  • Balinese: “Essen”
  • Bashkir: “Эссен”
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  • Belarusian: “Эсэн”
  • Bengali: “এসেন”
  • Bosnian: “Essen”
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  • Bulgarian: “Есен”
  • Catalan: “Essen”
  • Cebuano: “Essen (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Essen”
  • Cebuano: “Kreisfreie Stadt Essen”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئێسن”
  • Chechen: “Эссен”
  • Chinese: “Essen”
  • Chinese: “埃森”
  • Corsican: “Essen”
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  • Danish: “Essen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Essen”
  • Dutch: “Essen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايسسين”
  • Esperanto: “Asindo”
  • Esperanto: “Eseno”
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  • Estonian: “Essen”
  • Finnish: “Essen”
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  • Friulian: “Essen”
  • Galician: “Essen”
  • Georgian: “ესენი”
  • German: “Essen”
  • Greek: “Έσσεν”
  • Greek: “Έσση”
  • Gujarati: “એસેન”
  • Hausa: “Essen”
  • Hebrew: “אסן”
  • Hindi: “एस्सेन”
  • Hungarian: “Essen”
  • Icelandic: “Essen”
  • Ido: “Essen”
  • Indonesian: “Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen”
  • Indonesian: “Essen”
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  • Irish: “Essen”
  • Italian: “Essen”
  • Japanese: “エッセン”
  • Kannada: “ಎಸ್ಸೆನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Эссен”
  • Kirghiz: “Эссен”
  • Kölsch: “Essen”
  • Kongo: “Essen”
  • Korean: “에센”
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  • Ladin: “Essen”
  • Latin: “Assindia”
  • Latin: “Essendia”
  • Latvian: “Esene”
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  • Limburgan: “Esse”
  • Lithuanian: “Esenas”
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  • Macedonian: “Есен”
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  • Malay: “Essen”
  • Malayalam: “എസ്സെൻ”
  • Marathi: “एसेन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Essen”
  • Minangkabau: “Essen”
  • Moksha: “Эссэн”
  • Mongolian: “Эссен”
  • Narom: “Essen”
  • Neapolitan: “Essen”
  • Northern Frisian: “Essen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Essen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Essen”
  • Norwegian: “Essen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Essen”
  • Old Saxon: “Asnithi”
  • Ossetian: “Эссен”
  • Pampanga: “Essen”
  • Panjabi: “ਐੱਸਨ”
  • Persian: “اسن”
  • Picard: “Essen”
  • Piemontese: “Essen”
  • Polish: “Essen”
  • Portuguese: “Essen”
  • Pushto: “آسِن”
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  • Romanian: “Essen”
  • Romansh: “Essen”
  • Russian: “Эссен”
  • Sardinian: “Essen”
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  • Scots: “Essen”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Essen”
  • Serbian: “Essen”
  • Serbian: “Есен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Essen”
  • Sicilian: “Essen”
  • Silesian: “Essen”
  • Sindhi: “آئسن”
  • Sinhala: “එසන්”
  • Slovak: “Essen”
  • Slovenian: “Essen”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اسن”
  • Spanish: “Essen, Renania del Norte-Westfalia”
  • Spanish: “Essen”
  • Swahili: “Essen”
  • Swedish: “Essen”
  • Swiss German: “Essen (Dütschland)”
  • Swiss German: “Essen”
  • Tagalog: “Essen, Alemanya”
  • Tagalog: “Essen”
  • Tamil: “எசன்”
  • Tatar: “Эссен”
  • Telugu: “ఎస్సెన్”
  • Thai: “เอสเซิน”
  • Thai: “เอ็สเซิน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Essen”
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  • Uighur: “Ésén”
  • Ukrainian: “Ессен”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Essen”
  • Urdu: “ایسین”
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  • Waray (Philippines): “Essen”
  • Welsh: “Essen”
  • Western Frisian: “Essen”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایسن”
  • Western Panjabi: “منشنگلیڈباخ”
  • Wolof: “Essen”
  • Wu Chinese: “埃森”
  • Yiddish: “עסען”
  • Yue Chinese: “埃森”
  • Zulu: “Essen”
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