Essen is a city in the Düsseldorf administrative district of North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located in the center of the Ruhr area and the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region . After Cologne , Düsseldorf and Dortmund , Essen is the fourth largest city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and one of the regional centers .
In addition to the Essen monastery, the Werden monastery, founded by Liudger around 800, was a center of late antique and early Christian text transmission. Made a free imperial city by Emperor Charles IV in the 14th century, Essen had been a weapons forge since the late Middle Ages and, with industrialization , rose to become one of the most important centers of the coal and steel industry in Germany. Today, the Essen Cathedral and the oldest surviving fully sculptural figure of the Virgin Mary in the Christian West (Golden Madonna) are a reminder of the city's medieval history. At the same time , monuments of industrial culture bear witness to its heavy industrial past, especially the Zollverein Coal Mine UNESCO World Heritage Site . The cityscape is also characterized by striking high-rise buildings .
With the Museum Folkwang, Essen has a renowned collection of modern paintings, sculptures, graphics and photographs. The Opera House , built according to plans by Alvar Aalto , the Folkwang University of the Arts , the Grillo Theater , the Ruhr Museum and the German Poster Museum are respected art and cultural institutions. After Essen was European Capital of Culture in 2010, it received the title of European Green Capital for 2017.
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