City of Essen

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The City of Essen is a major urban center in Germany’s Ruhr area, historically significant as a medieval ecclesiastical seat and later as an important industrial and coal-mining hub.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
City of Essen canonical 2
Urban district of Essen 1

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf city
capitalOf Urban district of Essen NERFINISHED
contains Essen Hauptbahnhof NERFINISHED
Essen Minster NERFINISHED
Folkwang Museum NERFINISHED
Grugapark NERFINISHED
University of Duisburg-Essen NERFINISHED
Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex NERFINISHED
continent Europe
country Germany NERFINISHED
governedBy Lord Mayor of Essen
hasAward European Green Capital 2017 NERFINISHED
hasCulturalInstitution Aalto Theatre NERFINISHED
Museum Folkwang NERFINISHED
Philharmonie Essen NERFINISHED
hasDialingCode +49 201
hasHeritage UNESCO World Heritage Site Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex NERFINISHED
hasHistoricalOrigin Essen Abbey NERFINISHED
hasIndustry coal mining (historical)
energy sector
services sector
steel production (historical)
hasOfficialLanguage German
hasRiver Emscher River NERFINISHED
Ruhr River NERFINISHED
hasTransport connections to German Autobahn network
extensive tram and bus network
historicalRole coal-mining center
industrial hub
medieval ecclesiastical seat
is major urban center in the Ruhr area
locatedIn Ruhr area NERFINISHED
state of North Rhine-Westphalia NERFINISHED
locatedInTimeZone Central European Summer Time
Central European Time
locatedNear City of Bochum NERFINISHED
City of Dortmund NERFINISHED
City of Duisburg NERFINISHED
memberOf Regionalverband Ruhr (Ruhr Regional Association) NERFINISHED
partOf Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region NERFINISHED
postalCodeRange 45127–45359 (approximate range)
religiousHistory seat of a powerful women’s abbey in the Middle Ages
sufferedEvent heavy bombing during World War II
vehicleRegistrationCode E
wasFoundedInCentury 9th century

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bishopric of Essen hasTerritorialCore City of Essen
Regionalverband Ruhr hasMember City of Essen
Baldeneysee locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity City of Essen
this entity surface form: Urban district of Essen