* Official City of Bochum website

* Þórður Guðjónsson ( ÍA, VfL Bochum, Genk, Las Palmas, Derby County, Stoke City )

Stiepel is a southern district of the City of Bochum in the Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Höntrop is a district of the City of Bochum in the Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany.

Bochum-Linden is a district of the City of Bochum in the Ruhr area in

Weitmar-Mark is a suburb of the City of Bochum in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Jahrestag der Pogromnacht " City of Bochum.

* 2012 Bochum Concert Hall, Germany

Solaris has sold diesel and CNG-powered buses to numerous countries in Europe, including Italy ( Pescara and Rome ), France ( Paris, Bayonne and Narbonne ), Denmark, Germany ( Berlin, Bochum, Braunschweig, Bremen, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Fulda, Frankfurt am Main, Hannover, Hamburg, Kassel, Koblenz, Leipzig, Magdeburg, München, Nürnberg, Potsdam, Reutlingen, Schweinfurt, Schwäbisch Hall, Weimar and more ), Hungary in Nyíregyháza, Latvia ( Riga and Daugavpils ), Poland ( Warsaw, Szczecin, Lublin, Łódź, Gdynia, Radom, Rzeszów, Poznań, Katowice, Kraków, Tychy and Częstochowa ), Romania in Oradea and most recently Greece ( Athens ), Norway ( Oslo and Trondheim ), United Arab Emirates ( Dubai ), Sweden ( Gothenburg ) and Serbia ( Novi Sad ).

From 1994 – 1998 he took part in courses, seminars, symposia which were led by famous conductors and representatives of the world chorale groups such as Prof. Heinrich Poos from Frankfurt on Main, Dr Hans Jaskulsky from Conservatoire in Bochum, Dr Hayashi Hikaru from the University in Tokyo, Uwe Gronostay from the Philharmonic Hall in Berlin, Prof. Tatsuya Muratani from Tokyo.

The first anthroposophic bank was the Gemeinschaftsbank für Leihen und Schenken in Bochum, Germany, founded in 1974.

First performed at the Schauspielhaus Bochum, it was directed by Manfred Karge and Matthias Langhoff, and is still regularly revived in Germany.

Fritzsche was born in Bochum ( a city in the Ruhr Area ) and served in the German army in 1917.

The Opel Astra is assembled at the Opel Bochum plant ; however, by 2009, the factory was in serious financial difficulties.

In the course of a comprehensive community reform in 1975, Wattenscheid, a formerly independent city, was integrated into the city of Bochum.

In 2007, the new synagogue of the Jewish community of Bochum, Herne und Hattingen was opened.

Bochum was first bombed heavily in May and June 1943.

The town centre of Bochum was a strategic target during the Oil Campaign.

After the war, Bochum was occupied by the British, who established two camps to house people displaced by the war.

In 1951, a set of 28 chimes was installed, manufactured in Bochum.

In front of the city hall is a large bell that was made by the Bochum " Verein für Bergbau und Gusstahlfabrikation AG ", ( Association for Mining and Cast Steel Manufacturing ).

* The Friedrich Lueg Haus was built in 1924-1925 as the first high-rise building in Bochum.

The castle remained in private hands till 1921, when it was deeded to the city of Bochum.

Whereas the Gelsenkirchen of that time – not including today's north-end communities, such as Buer – was put in the Amt of Wattenscheid in the Bochum district, in the governmental region of Arnsberg, Buer, which was an Amt in its own right, was along with nearby Horst joined to Recklinghausen district in the governmental region of Münster.

In 1885, after Bochum district was split up, Gelsenkirchen became the seat of its own district ( Kreis ), which would last until 1926.

Born in Bochum in Westphalia, of middle-class parents, his original name was Heinrich Johann Friedrich Ostermann.

Ruhr University Bochum ( German Ruhr-Universität Bochum, RUB ), located on the southern hills of central Ruhr area Bochum, was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany since World War II.

The University of Bochum was one of the first universities in Germany to introduce international Bachelor and Master degrees, which replaced the traditional German Diplom and Magister.

During World War II Rügenwalde was used to house families made homeless after the Allied bombing of Hagen and Bochum in the Ruhr district.

* Propsteikirche St. Peter und Paul, is the oldest church in Bochum, built between 785-800 by Charlemagne.

In addition, Bochum has a ring road, built to expressway standards, consisting of four segments ; the Donezk, Oviedo, Nordhausen and Sheffield-Ring roads.

649, 512 Kadetts had been built at the company's new Bochum factory by the time it was replaced in July 1965.

The development work was then halted and limited production began by Krupp in Gruson, Essen and Bochum in October 1939 with 20 vehicles built.

Since 2007, five of the stadiums were either newly built ( Augsburg, Dresden and Sinsheim ) or remodeled ( Bochum and Leverkusen ).

On August 26, Psyche performed a special live set of songs from their 80's releases at Neon Welt in Zwischenfall, Bochum.

Category: People from Bochum

Bochum dates from the 9th century, when Charlemagne set up a royal court at the junction of two important trade routes.

The population of Bochum increased from about 4, 500 in 1850 to 100, 000 in 1904.

The first Jews from Bochum were deported to Nazi concentration camps and many Jewish institutions and homes were destroyed.

* Altes Brauhaus Rietkötter, the Old Rietkötter Brewing House is one of the oldest houses in Bochum, dating from 1630.

* July or August: Bochum kulinarisch – culinary treats from various cuisines, held the last weekend of summer vacation

Ruhr University Bochum is also served by an expressway running from the Nordhausen-Ring to Autobahn A43.

Apart from the autobahns and expressways, there is also a small ring road around the center of Bochum, where most roads radiating out of Bochum begin.

Bochum has a central station situated on the line from Duisburg to Dortmund, connecting the city to the long-distance network of Deutsche Bahn as well as to the S-Bahn network of Rhine-Ruhr.

It is bounded by ( from the north and clockwise ) the district-free cities of Bochum, Dortmund and Hagen, the districts of Märkischer Kreis and Oberbergischer Kreis, the city of Wuppertal, the district of Mettmann and the city of Essen.

Category: People from Bochum

Category: People from Bochum

Category: People from Bochum

Further astroarchaeological studies of Prof. Schlosser from Bochum university have shown that this orientation has been established around the year 0 ± 50.

Although those plans were later abandoned due to exploding costs, 17 Stadtbahn lines between Krefeld in the west and Dortmund in the east were finished, and today one can travel from Krefeld to Bochum without using a single mainline train.

QVC Germany, incorporated in Düsseldorf, runs call centre operations from two sites in Bochum and Kassel, whilst distribution is handled from a dedicated site in Hückelhoven.

On 1 February 1924 the two clubs from the earlier merger spilt to into the Bochumer Turnverein 1848 ( gymnastics department ) and Turn-und Sportverein Bochum 1908 ( football, track and field, handball, hockey and tennis departments ).

In the penultimate week on 12 May 2007, Stuttgart beat VfL Bochum 3 – 2 away from home, took the Bundesliga lead from Schalke 04 and secured a spot in the 2007 – 08 UEFA Champions League.

Category: People from Bochum

Came from Bochum with Katherina after her father was arrested.