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Oberhausen

American  
[oh-ber-hau-zuhn] / ˈoʊ bərˌhaʊ zən /

noun

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


Oberhausen British  
/ ˈoːbərhauzən /

noun

  1. an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia on the Rhine-Herne Canal: site of the first ironworks in the Ruhr. Pop: 220 033 (2003 est)

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He mourns what he sees a general decline in Oberhausen, pointing to because of ageing infrastructure and a lack of investment.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2025

On a stormy, steamy summer day in 2003, as I approached the Gasometer Oberhausen, which the Third Reich used for fuel storage, I expected the enormous cylindrical structure would prove the gloomiest building in Germany.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2024

An entire gallery surveys the vast Concordia coal plant at Oberhausen, in Germany: Teeming photos present its gas-storage tanks, its “lean gas generator,” its “quenching tower,” its “coke pushers.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2022

Adding Burger King insult to Burger King injury, here’s how Variety described the full documentary when it screened at the Oberhausen Film Festival back in 1983:

From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2019

Why not branch off at Oberhausen, and go home by way of Flushing?”

From The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 by Louis Tracy

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