Gelsenkirchen

[gel-zuhn-kir-khuhn]

noun

1. a city in W Germany, in the Ruhr valley.

Gelsenkirchen

/ ɡɛlzənˈkɪrçən /

noun

1. an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 272 445 (2003 est)

Example Sentences

More than 75,000 filled Berlin’s Olympic Stadium on June 11; 44,500 were in Frankfurt on June 18; and another 51,000 watched his concert in the faded Ruhr River industrial town of Gelsenkirchen on June 27.

From Los Angeles Times

Prague, Frankfurt, San Sebastian and Gelsenkirchen, are among the other cities left to play on the tour before it comes to an end in Milan on 3 July.

From BBC

Shakhtar have played Champions League home games in six different cities since leaving Donetsk 10 years ago - Lviv, Kharkiv, Kyiv, and outside Ukraine in Polish capital Warsaw, and German cities Hamburg and Gelsenkirchen.

From BBC

Eriksson's insistence backfired as a frustrated Rooney, not fully fit after breaking a metatarsal bone in his foot playing for United and nowhere near his best, was sent off for stamping on Portugal defender Ricardo Carvalho in that quarter-final exit in Gelsenkirchen.

From BBC

Despite an appeal by both British and German police for fans to refrain from doing so, BBC Sport witnessed the '10 German bombers' chant being sung in the German city Gelsenkirchen on the day of England’s opening match against Serbia on Sunday.

From BBC