city in WC Germany, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
Oberhausen
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Oberhausen
A city of west-central Germany in the Ruhr Valley west-northwest of Essen. It is a port, rail junction, and industrial center.x
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Sentence Examples
- The largest iron and steel works are at Essen, Oberhausen, Duisburg, Dusseldorf and Cologne, while cutlery and other small metallic wares are extensively made at Solingen, Remscheid and Aix-la-Chapelle.
- In the immediate vicinity are also extensive beds of iron ore, and this combination of mineral wealth has enabled the town to become a competitor with Essen, Oberhausen, Duisburg and Hagen in the products of the iron industry.
- OBERHAUSEN, a town of Germany, in the Prussian Rhine province.
- The town possesses large ironworks, coal-mines, rolling-mills, zinc smelting-works, railway workshops and manufactures of wire-rope, glass, chemicals, porcelain and soap. The first houses of Oberhausen were built in 1845, and it received its municipal character in 1874.