Today five million people live in North Rhine-Westphalia’s Ruhrgebiet (Ruhr Area), and almost four million in the capital Berlin. This year marks one hundred years since both regions took a decisive ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ESSEN, Germany – Can a world region pull off a metamorphosis? If you think there’s no hope for regions like America’s own Detroit, just check the audacious ...

Statistics have revealed increases in poverty in many larger cities in west Germany, predominantly in the Ruhr region. Conversely, poverty is trending downward in the former east. New research has ...

Ingo Schulze spent six months exploring the Ruhr area. Not only did he discover many new things there, but also some things that connect this part of the West with the East. With state elections in ...

“Future in Bloom” is the motto of the International Garden Exhibition 2027 in the Ruhr region, which will take place from April 23 to October 17, 2027. This International Garden Exhibition will be the ...

The Ruhr region is characterised by heavy industry. This is also unmistakable in football - here at a demonstration by miners in Bochum's Ruhrstadion in 1997 ...

During the boom years of the coal industry, Joseph Stoffels delighted in photographing all things coal-related. Hundreds of his photos from this era are on display in a former mine-turned-cultural ...

In recent weeks, members and supporters of the Socialist Equality Party (Partei für Soziale Gleichheit, PSG) in North Rhine-Westphalia have collected the 2,000 signatures necessary to qualify at a ...