Buer is the largest suburb of
Gelsenkirchen
Gelsenkirchen (, , ; wep, Gelsenkiärken) is the 25th most populous city of Germany and the 11th most populous in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia with 262,528 (2016) inhabitants. On the Emscher River (a tributary of the Rhine), it lies ...
in
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a States of Germany, state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more tha ...
. The Hochstrasse in the heart of Buer is the largest shopping street in Gelsenkirchen.
History
![25 pfennig 1918 Buer BIW001](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/25_pfennig_1918_Buer_BIW001.jpg)
In 1928, the adjoining cities of Buer, Gelsenkirchen, and
Horst merged to form Gelsenkirchen-Buer, which was renamed Gelsenkirchen in 1930.
The
Scholven/Buer synthetic oil plant was a bombing target of the
Oil Campaign of World War II (the
Buer town hall survived in nearly original form).
Notable people
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Gerd Faltings
Gerd Faltings (; born 28 July 1954) is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic geometry.
Education
From 1972 to 1978, Faltings studied mathematics and physics at the University of Münster. In 1978 he received his PhD in mathema ...
Gelsenkirchen
Oil campaign of World War II
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