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OBERHAUSEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 946 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OBERHAUSEN , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:Rhine See also:province. It is situated 5 m. from the See also:east See also:bank of the Rhine, 20 M. N.E. of See also:Dusseldorf, on the See also:main See also:line of railway to See also:Hanover and See also:Berlin, and at the centre of an important network of lines radiating hence into the extensive Westphalian See also:coal and See also:iron See also:fields. Pop. (1905) 52,096. The town possesses large iron-See also:works, coal-mines, See also:rolling See also:mills, See also:zinc smelting-works, railway workshops and manufactures of See also:wire-rope, See also:glass, chemicals, See also:porcelain and See also:soap. The first houses of Oberhausen were built in 1845, and it received its municipal See also:character in 1874.

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