To revitalize the Ruhr, state and local governments have invested in research and education, transformed abandoned steelworks into industrial ... across the valley's main cities remains stubbornly ...

When the Tetraeder was built in 1994, many residents of Bottrop, a post-industrial city in western Germany ... coal mines that once dotted Germany’s Ruhr region, the Zollverein Coal Mine ...

In March, I traveled to Germany’s Ruhr Valley (Ruhrgebiet ... magnificent views of the active industrial sites, open spaces and small skylines of cities that populate the region.

In books, paintings and plays of social protest, the Ruhr Valley was long pictured as a ... The world’s greatest industrial workshop now seeks help because it is fighting to change, modernize ...

It's not Germany's rural countryside, but its most densely populated, former industrial powerhouse. Once known only for coal mines, the Ruhr Valley digs deep to fight regional stereotypes.

Two hundred years ago, Friedrich Krupp opened a steel foundry in the Ruhr Valley, laying the cornerstone for a legendary industrial empire ... He arrived in the Ruhr city around 1587 and ...

Ruhr poverty on the rise Gütersloh - one of many mid-size cities in Germany’s industrial heartland - was chosen as the site of the research release to highlight the rising poverty in the region.

Oberhausen in the Ruhr valley has had to adapt from its industrial past For many of the ... BBC News is following the progress of one city - and the people who live there. Oberhausen in the ...