The Ruhr is a large coal field located in the west of Germany in North Rhine-Westphalia. Ruhr represents one of the largest coal reserve in Germany having estimated reserves of 42 billion tonnes of coal.[1]
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The Ruhr is a large coal field located in the west of Germany in North Rhine-Westphalia. Ruhr represents one of the largest coal reserve in Germany having...
opening mines and associated iron smelters. In Germany (Prussia), the Ruhr Area coalfields opened in the 1830s. Railroads were built around 1850 and numerous...
in default of coal reparations and authorised the occupation of the Ruhrcoalfields in order to secure the deliveries, again with the British representative...
"Working-Class Culture and the Labour Movement in the South Wales and the RuhrCoalfields, 1850-2000: A Comparison," Journal of Welsh Labour History/Cylchgrawn...
"Working-Class Culture and the Labour Movement in the South Wales and the RuhrCoalfields, 1850-2000: A Comparison," Journal of Welsh Labour History/Cylchgrawn...
actual boundaries of the Ruhr vary slightly depending on the source, but a good working definition is to define the Lippe and Ruhr as its northern and southern...
"Working-Class Culture and the Labour Movement in the South Wales and the RuhrCoalfields, 1850-2000: A Comparison", Journal of Welsh Labour History/Cylchgrawn...
British "Coal Control" unit organising the output and distribution of the Ruhrcoalfield production. A Catch-22 situation is detailed, whereby coal is needed...
The topography is undulating. The coal-bearing area of the Raniganj coalfields lies just beyond Durgapur; some parts intrude into the area. The area...
late eighteenth century, the coal mining and metalworking industries of the Ruhr in the south of the province expanded rapidly, becoming the centre of the...
Due to the lack of reparation payments by Germany, France occupied the Ruhr in 1923 to enforce payments, causing an international crisis that resulted...
basin spreading over 2,883 square kilometres (1,113 sq mi). The important coalfields in the basin are Jharia, Raniganj, West Bokaro, East Bokaro, Ramgarh,...
family. Thus the Ruhr worker remained too hungry and too weak for effective hard work required in underground mining. Bombing of the Ruhr damaged about 45...
Kapp's defeat. For a time, the Ruhr Red Army, in what came to be known as the Ruhr uprising, dominated the entire Ruhr region. Severing made it clear...
of restaurant districts and streets Günter Ermlich. "The Flower of the Coalfield" Archived July 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine The Atlantic Times, A...
districts in the first decades of the 19th century. These included the Aachen coalfield in the Düren mining district. In 1836, there were 36 coal mines in this...
becoming the headquarters for the Steel Authority of India Ltd and Central Coalfields Ltd. The city remained the summer capital of Bihar till the creation of...
Williams, Chris. Capitalism, community and conflict: The south Wales coalfield, 1898–1947 (U of Wales Press, 1998). Burning the Future: Coal in America...
railway companies that in the mid-19th century built the first railways in the Ruhr and large parts of today's North Rhine-Westphalia. The industrialists of...
the Upper Silesian Coal Basin, which lies in the Silesian Upland. The coalfield has an area of about 4,500 km2 (1,700 sq mi). Deposits in Lower Silesia...
in Essen in 1900. In 1902, EAG sold its shares to a consortium formed by Ruhr industrialists Hugo Stinnes and August Thyssen. In 1906, it expanded its...
engines were reliable and easy to maintain and continued to be used in the coalfields until the early decades of the 19th century. By 1729, when Newcomen died...
occupied the heavily industrialised Ruhr district (January 1923). The German government encouraged the population of the Ruhr to engage in passive resistance:...
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