Bochum, with a population of 364,920 (2016), is the sixth largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen, and Duisburg) in Germany’s most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the…
The city is situated on the Bochum Land Ridge (Bochumer Landrücken), which is one of the Ruhrhöhen (highest heights) and separates the southern and northern coal regions of the Ruhr.…