Gelsenkirchen, a modern manufacturing town of Westphalia, 4 miles NW. of Bochum. It owes to coal and iron its rise from a mere village since 1860. Pop. (1880) 14,615; (1890) 28,057.
Gelsenkirchen
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 126
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