Walking in the city center of Bochum, Germany 2023

Virtual tour of the city center of Bochum
The city of Bochum is a large city in the center of the Ruhr area. The name of the city originated from earlier Low German names such as Bukhem or Bokheim, where boc is the Low German word for beech and hum or hem in turn stands for -heim. Accordingly, the name denoted a place of residence under beech trees and could today also be translated as "Buchenheim" (cf. also Bocholt).

The independent city in the administrative district of Arnsberg is, along with Duisburg, Essen, Dortmund and Hagen, one of the five major centers of the Ruhr region and belongs to the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region. With approximately 370,000 inhabitants, Bochum is the sixth largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, the second largest city in Westphalia and 16th among the 20 largest cities in Germany. Bochum is a member of the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe and the Regionalverband Ruhr. The population of the city exceeded the 100,000 mark with the incorporations in 1904, making Bochum a major city.[5] The city grew significantly in 1975 with the incorporation of the previously district-free town of Wattenscheid (population about 72,000).

Bochum is home to nine universities or branches of universities. Since the founding of the Ruhr University in 1962, located in the southern district of Querenburg, the first new university in the Federal Republic of Germany after World War II and with over 40,000 students one of the largest universities in Germany,

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