RUHRGEBIET Including Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, June - July 2006 Essen and Bochum
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Hotels Restaurants Cafés Nightlife Sightseeing Events Maps RUHRGEBIET Including Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, June - July 2006 Essen and Bochum Industrial tourism Up towers, down shafts N°1 Complimentary copy www.inyourpocket.com CONTENTS 3 Herzlich Willkommen! ESSENT IA L CI TY GUID ES Contents Glossary 5 In Your Pocket begrüßt in seiner Reihe der Stadtführer auch diese The basics schöne Stadt. History 6 Cities and mines Die In Your Pocket City Guides verstehen sich als kostenlose Stadt- © Dortmund-Agentur Cornelia Suhan führer.Unsere Zielgruppe ist klar! Unsere Leser besuchen die Stadt Events 8 und wissen weder was die Butter in Hamburg kostet, noch warum Music, concerts and industry die Münchner blasse Wurst essen und wo diese wirklich schmeckt. World Cup Fan Fest 10 Have a ball Unsere Leser sind Touristen und Geschäftsreisende: sie möchten sich die Stadt ansehen, Vorführungen genießen, Essen & Trinken, Industrial tourism 11 Postkarten schreiben, oder in ihrer freien Zeit Ausstellungen be- Clamber over smelters, dive into gastanks suchen und ein typisches Souvenir kaufen. Dortmund 14 Main city of the Ruhrgebiet Aber unsere Leser sprechen kein Wort Deutsch! Gelsenkirchen 16 Wir geben den internationalen Reisenden ausführliche Informa- Transformed mining town tionen über Ihr Unternehmen und präsentieren Ihre Leistungen in englischer Sprache. Essen 24 Cultural Capital of the region... and Europe Bochum 26 Mining, nature and nightlife # Hotels Restaurants Cafés Nightlife Sightseeing Events Maps Hotels Restaurants Cafés Nightlife Sightseeing Events Maps Hotels Restaurants Cafés Nightlife Sightseeing Events Maps Hotels Restaurants Cafés Nightlife Sightseeing Events Maps Hotels Restaurants Cafés Nightlife Sightseeing Events Maps FRANKFURT MUNICH COLOGNE HAMBURG HANOVER " April - May 2006 June - July 2006 June - July 2006 June - July 2006 June - July 2006 Maps & Index Transport map 28-29 New Look Revamped In Your Pocket Museums by Street register 30-31 night Join the all-night culture fest City map 32-33 Feature 1 Short description of the feature. Should be max. 3 lines. Index 34 Football events ! Feature 2 - max Win or lose, this is Revamped In Your where to party Pocket 2 lines Short description of the Football events Harbour tours Sco Feature 2 - max feature. Should be max. Win or lose, this is Down in the docks !" 3 lines. 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N°1 - €1.75 N°1 - ??price?? N°1 - €1.75 www.inyourpocket.com www.inyourpocket.com www.inyourpocket.com www.inyourpocket.com N°1 - FREE COPY www.inyourpocket.com © Dortmund-Agentur Benito Barajas Sco tel: +49 (0)30 27907981, [email protected], www.inyourpocket.com June - July 2006 4 FOREWORD GLOSSARY 5 The Ruhrgebiet area hasn’t had it easy. After all the industrial development, incredible immigration and Driving urban growth, wartime desctruction and bland Germany has a brilliant network of Autobahn (motorways, Beer or Culture? rebuilding efforts, the industries that powered prefixed A) and Bundesstrasse roads (major roads, prefixed by B. Traffic drives on the right with speed limits of 130km/h Germany for so long turned out to be too inefficient or 100km/h outside built-up areas, and 50km/h in built- In Prague, you don’t have to choose. and the workfoce too expensive to compete with up areas. And indeed, there are really no speed limits on We have it all. others. More recently, the development of the Autobahnen which makes for some fun driving and some And we have it all in Prague In Your Pocket. area away from heavy industry and towards a truly ghastly accidents. Keep a close eye on the rear mirror Keep it where it belongs. high-tech economy seems to have paid off, and the if you’re planning to overtake or if you’re in the left lane, as those headlights in the distance behind you may get Ruhrgebiet is witnessing something of a revolution. uncomfortably close very quickly. Seatbelts must be worn And finally, the decaying industrial landscape is at all times and children under 12 years can only travel in being opened up for the public, with many exciting the front seat with a child restraint. German laws are strict sights now accessible to clamber over, dive into or by many accounts when it comes to driving after you have simply gawk at by night. had a few pints, glasses or snifters full of booze. The legal maximum alcohol to blood ratio for driving is 0.05%. This Ruhrgebiet In Your Pocket guide focuses on the Language World Cup cities Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen, and $ ! The German language has been somewhat misrepresented in the regional heavyweights Essen and Bochum. If Sco " you’re here for the World Cup, don’t be deterred by the foreign media over the past decades, and when you hear it spoken it’s not as harsh as you may expect. Although you won’t the endless built-up areas you see from the highway Welcome to Dortmund be able to learn it on a short trip, it’s always nice to memorise or the train window - there’s a wonderful new post- a few key terms like thank you (danke), please (bitte), hello *EJ@KIJJ>;I;7IED 8KJ 7BIE7D?DJ;HD7J?ED7B CKI?9<;IJ?L7B industrial world out there that’s well worth a visit. Welcome to our city. Dortmund (gutentag) and goodbye (auf wiedersehen). You’ll notice # ;B;8H7J;J>;=;D?KIE< ,H7=K;VI7:EFJ;:IED is happy to receive visitors to that written German has some odd characters, such as the www.inyourpocket.com Enjoy the Ruhrgebiet, and let us know what you the city who are to watch the ß, the ü, ö and ä. Annoyingly, these are interchangeable with combinations of letters and can (and often are) replaced by ss, thought of the place, and this guide, at ruhrgebiet@ World Cup football matches. Here, you’ll see that we’re ue, oe and ae respectively – which explains why the website inyourpocket.com. very close to football - it’s only of Cologne (Köln) is spellt www.koeln.de. PIYP s.r.o., V Jámě 1, 110 00, Praha 1 3km from the main station to tel. (+420) 224 947 601, [email protected] the stadium, and just 500m to the Fanfest venue on Frie- Money Cover story densplatz. The best way to get cash in Germany is to use an ATM Enjoy many exciting games in machine, of which there are plenty all over the country. Essen’s glorious Unesco- Dortmund, a vital city; a city that’s dressed up from head German banks do not charge for using foreign cards in Safety listed Zeche Zollverein their machines, so check with your own bank if you’ll pay Germany is a very safe country to travel in, and other than mine basks in evening to toe, ready for football. Celebrate in a worldy way with light. The mine was close the inhabitants of Dortmund. any commission. Even if you do have to pay a euro or two the usual precautions against pickpocketing, there are no decades ago, but now is Of course our city has more to offer than football - first to use an ATM, it’ll be better value and easier than going to special preparations you should make. Although Germany renovated and houses class hotels and restaurants, sport, entertainment, and a one of the banks or train station exchange offices (like the has been in the news recently for racist attacks, these a fascinating museum diverse cultural offer. Welcome, and enjoy our city. Reisebank chain) as they have worse exchange rates and incidents are quite rare and are by no means a purely German complex. Dr. Gerhard Langemeyer will charge a commission. phenomenon. Germans are aware that their country is more Mayor of Dortmund Germany ditched the Deutsche mark in 2002, adopting the closely scrutinised than others when it comes to this, and euro, pronounced locally as oi-ro. Germany’s economy is racism and violence is not tolerated, witness the impressive the largest in Europe, and therefore the majority of coins level of security around synagogues and Jewish institutions: in circulation now are German ones; you’ll see Berlin’s sturdy barriers and round-the-clock armed guards. Brandenburg Gate on the €0.10, €0.20 and €0.50 coins, and the German eagle flapping around on the €1 and €2. the Editorial Copyright notice banknotes, if you’re wondering, are the same for the whole of Time Editor-in-Chief Jeroen van Marle Text and photos copyright In Your euroland, and are adorned with generic European bridges.