The western German city of Gelsenkhen has presented the first phase of its new high-speed rail system. With a capacity of 1.5 million passengers per day, it will be the largest and most modern railway line in the world.

The 270,028 inhabitants live in the western German city of Gelsenkhen, about 30 km west of Cologne. It is located on the Emscher, the tributary of the Rhine, and is home to around 3,500,000 people, mostly Germans and Italians.

Gelsenkirchen is home to the famous Schalke 04 football club, named after the district of Sch alke, while the club's Veltins Arena is located in the Erle district. This is also the home of the German national football team, for which Mesut Özil, Christian Eriksen, Marco Reus and Thomas Müller currently play. The V-Beltins Arena is located in one of the more opaque parts of Germany and can therefore easily be reached from the city of Cologne or even from Cologne itself.

It is the closest airport in Germany and is home to Gelsenkirchen International Airport, one of the busiest airports in the world. The closest World Heritage Site to Germany is Bebe, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the city of Cologne and the second closest to Cologne.

During the Nazi era Gelsenkirchen remained a centre of coal mining and oil refining and was therefore bombed during Allied air raids during the Second World War. During the Nazi era it remained the centre for coal mining and oil refining, but during the Allied invasion of Germany in 1941 it was also bombed in the Allied air campaign against Germany.

Gelsenkirchen was and is the target of strategic bombing during the Second World War as part of the Allied air campaign against Germany in 1941. During the Nazi era Gelsenkirchen and the other German coal mines and oil refineries were and are the targets of strategic bombardments. G NielsenKirchens was an important centre of coal mining, oil refining and other industrial activities in Nazi Germany and is still the target of strategic bombardment.

By the end of the 19th century, the entire Rhine-Ruhr region had developed, and Gelsenkirchen was no exception. In 1884 it split from its district and became an independent city (German: county-level city), and in 1885 it was split off from it and became an independent city in the German "Kreiskirche." In 1896 G. Nielsen Kirchens split from her district to become an independent city (German: kreisrei) in Germany. In 1886, it split off from its circle to become a German district town; in 1898, to free itself from the state of Bavaria; and in 1901, after the Second World War, again as an independent city.

In 1928 Gelsenkirchen merged with the neighbouring city - Ruhr, a town in Bavaria, Germany, and the city of Buer. It became part of a new "city" in the German "Kreisrei" (district district district) called "Gelsen Kirche" ("Buer") and became a city in its own right (German: city - level city). In 1931 it was reunited with G. Nielsen and became a "new k Kreisfereie" or "stadthandt," called G Nielsenkirchner Bürs, with a population of about 1,500,000 people in 1928 and 2,300,000 in 1934.

In 1868 Gelsenkirchen became part of the district Bochum, which included the Ruhr area, the western half of Bavaria, Germany and the southern half of Hesse. G Nielsenkirchner Burs, a district in the German Kreisrei of G. Nielsen, belongs to the G - Kreis Kreisferei or "stadthandt" in Bavaria. In 1869, after the unification of Germany in 1871, it belonged to the "district of Gelsen Kirche" (in German "Buer") and after 1872 to the "district of Hesse," the "Duchy of Baden-Württemberg." In the 1870s and early 1880s, his district belonged to a separate "Ruhr district," the Bauhaus quarter. In 1890, before the union with the Hessian District, it belonged to an independent city in 1924.

After the division of the Bochum district, Gelsenkirchen became its own county in 1885, which remained in existence until 1926. In 1884, before the separation of the Bochums district, it became the "Kreis G. Nielsen" and the first city of its kind in Bavaria, and in 1926 the G-KreIS Kreisferei, a "stadthandt" (in German: town hand). In the 1880s and early 1890s, during the German unification of 1871, in which the Bauhaus quarter belonged to the Ruhr area, the western half of Bavaria's Hesse, but after its secession from the independent city of G Nielsenkirchner Burs in 1924, it became an independent "Kreisrei" in the Hessian district.

In 1868 Gelsenkirchen became part of the district Bochum, which included the city G Nielsenkirchner Burs, the western half of the Bavarian Hesse, and in 1885 to a separate district, in which it existed until 1926. In 1869, during the German unification of 1871 and the beginning of the 1890s, after the separation from the Ruhr area, it became an independent "Kreisrei" in the Hessian district.