Bochum

Bochum a town inside the middle of the Ruhrgebiet. The metropolis's call came from in advance Low German phrases including Bukhem and Bokheim, wherein boc is the Low German word for beech and hums or hem stands for home. Accordingly, the call noted a place of house below Buchen and can be translated these days with Buchenheim. Still around 1150 Bochum turned into called in files as Bokheim.

The district-unfastened town in the administrative district of Arnsberg is next to Duisburg, Essen, Dortmund and Hagen one of the five foremost centers of the Ruhr area and is a part of the Rhine Ruhr metropolitan area. With about 365,000 inhabitants Bochum is the 6th biggest city in North Rhine Westphalia, the second one largest metropolis in Westphalia and one of the 20 biggest towns in Germany. Bochum is a member of the Landschaftsverband Westfalen Lippe and the Regionalverband Ruhr. The populace of the city in 1905 passed the 100,000 mark and made Bochum the large city. With the incorporation of the previously independent city Wattenscheid about 72,000 inhabitants, the town grew substantially in 1975.