Mülheim

For other uses, see Mülheim (disambiguation).

Mülheim
City
Castle Broich in Mülheim
Coat of arms
Location of Mülheim within North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region	Düsseldorf
District	urban district
Subdivisions	3 districts, 9 boroughs
Government
• Lord mayor	Dagmar Mühlenfeld (SPD)
Area
• Total	91.26 km2 (35.24 sq mi)
Highest elevation	153 m (502 ft)
Lowest elevation	26 m (85 ft)
Population  (2005)
• Total	169,905
• Density	1,900/km2 (4,800/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	45468-45481
Dialling codes	0208
Vehicle registration	MH
Website	www.muelheim-ruhr.de

Mülheim an der Ruhr, also called "City on the River", is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It is located in the Ruhr Area between Duisburg, Essen, Oberhausen and Ratingen. It is home of many companies, especially in the food industry, such as the Aldi Süd Company or the Tengelmann Group.

Boroughs

#	Borough	District	Area [km²]	Population	Destiny [km²]
1	Altstadt I	Rechtsruhr-Süd	3,20	19.741	6.169
2	Altstadt II	Rechtsruhr-Süd	5,79	24.718	4.269
3	Styrum	Rechtsruhr-Nord	4,44	15.605	3.515
4	Dümpten	Rechtsruhr-Nord	5,51	19.031	3.454
5	Heißen	Rechtsruhr-Süd	8,88	21.537	2.425
6	Menden-Holthausen	Rechtsruhr-Süd	17,30	13.778	796
7	Saarn	Linksruhr	26,92	23.878	887
8	Broich	Linksruhr	8,78	13.941	1.588
9	Speldorf	Linksruhr	10,46	18.183	1.738

Sister cities

Mülheim's sister cities include:

Darlington, United Kingdom, since 1953 Tours, France, since 1962 Kuusankoski, Finland, from 1972 to 2008 Opole, Poland, since 1989

Kfar Saba, Israel, since 1993 Istanbul-Beykoz, Turkey, since 2007 Kouvola, Finland, since 2009 Qalqilyah, Palestine, friendship

Notable bands

• Bohren & der Club of Gore (founded 1992), a jazz & ambient band
• Die Lokalmatadore (founded 1982), a punk band

Notable clubs

• 1. FC Mülheim (founded 1923), a football club
• VfB Speldorf (founded 1919), a football club

Notable companies

• Aldi (founded 1913), a supermarket chain
• Plus (founded 1972), a supermarket chain
• Tengelmann (founded 1867), a holding company

Notable institutes

• Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry
• Max Planck Institute for Coal Research

Notable people

• Wilhelm Rittenhausen (born 1644), founder of the first paper mill in North America.
• Gerhard Tersteegen (born 1697), a Reformed religious writer.
• Carl Arnold Kortum (born 1745), a physician, best known for his writing and poetry.
• August Bungert (born 1845), an opera composer and poet.
• Hugo Stinnes (born 1870), an industrialist and founder of the German People's Party.
• Fritz Thyssen (born 1873), an industrialist associated with the Nazi Party of Adolf Hitler.
• Heinrich Thyssen (born 1875), a German-Hungarian entrepreneur and art collector.
• Walter Hartmann (born 1891), a general of Artillery, serving during World War II.
• Otto Pankok (born 1893), a painter, printmaker, and sculptor.
• Karl Ziegler (born 1898), a chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963, with Giulio Natta, for work on polymers.
• Clärenore Stinnes (born 1901), a car racer; who was the first human to circumnavigate the world by automobile.
• Werner Best (born 1903), a jurist, police chief, and Nazi leader.
• Fritz Buchloh (born 1909), a football goalkeeper at two World Cups in 1934 and 1938, who played for VfB Speldorf.
• Günther Smend (born 1912), an officer and a resistance fighter involved in the July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
• Johannes Bölter (born 1915), a Heer tank commander during World War II.
• Karl Albrecht (born 1920), an entrepreneur who founded the discount supermarket chain Aldi with his brother Theo and among the richest men in the world.
• Theo Albrecht (born 1922), an entrepreneur who was ranked as the 20th richest person in the world by Forbes magazine in 2007.
• Wilhelm Knabe (born 1923), an ecologist, pacifist, civil servant, politician and a co-founder of the Green Party in Germany.
• Wim Thoelke (born 1927), a TV entertainer.
• Jürgen Sundermann (born 1940), a manager and former footballer.
• Rudolf Seliger (born 1951), a former football striker, who played for MSV Duisburg.
• Bodo Hombach (born 1952), a politician and Member of the SPD.
• Monika Griefahn (born 1954), a politician of the SPD.
• Hans-Günter Bruns (born 1954), a retired footballer.
• Helge Schneider (born 1955), a comedian, jazz musician, author, film and theatre director, and actor.
• Ralph Morgenstern (born 1956), a television presenter and actor.
• Ralf Lübke (born 1965), a retired athlete who specialized in the 200 metres.
• Willi Landgraf (born 1968), a soccer player, currently playing for the amateurs of Schalke 04.
• Sven Meinhardt (born 1971), a field hockey forward, who won the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
• Lars Burgsmüller (born 1975), a tennis player.
• Marion Rodewald (born 1976), a field hockey defender, who won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
• Simone Hanselmann (born 1979), an actress.

External links

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