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The Ruhr's elegant surprise: from soot to Picasso.
Essen was built on coal and steel, specifically the Krupp empire, which grew here from a steel workshop in 1810 into the industrial complex that armed three German wars. The Krupp family's Villa Hugel, a 269-room mansion on a hill overlooking the southern part of the city, still stands and is open to visitors, and the contrast between its refined interiors and the industrial world it commanded is one of the stranger experiences available in any German city.
The Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex closed in 1986 and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which is about the most unexpected upgrade an industrial building can receive.
The Bauhaus-influenced buildings designed by Fritz Schupp and Martin Kremmer in the 1920s and 1930s are regarded as the most beautiful colliery ever built, with the towering twin headframes and clean geometric forms preserved intact. The Ruhr Museum inside the complex is one of the best regional history museums in Germany. Essen was named European Capital of Culture for the entire Ruhr region in 2010.
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