Buer is the largest suburb of

Gelsenkirchen Gelsenkirchen (, , ; ) is the List of cities in Germany by population, 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, Emscher River (a tribu ...

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, state () in Old states of Germany, Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the List of German states by population, most ...

. The Hochstrasse in the heart of Buer is the largest shopping street in Gelsenkirchen.

History

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 however survived in nearly original form.Gelsenkirchen.de: Das Rathaus Buer
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Localities

* Meesdorf

Notable people

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References

Gelsenkirchen Oil campaign of World War II {{Gelsenkirchen-geo-stub