Buer is the largest suburb of Gelsenkirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia. The Hochstrasse in the heart of Buer is the largest shopping street in Gelsenkirchen.
History
In 1928, the adjoining cities of Buer, Gelsenkirchen, and Horst merged to form Gelsenkirchen-Buer, which was renamed Gelsenkirchen in 1930.Stephanie Reekers: Die Gebietsentwicklung der Kreise und Gemeinden Westfalens 1817–1967. Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, , pp. 223, 236.
The Scholven/Buer synthetic oil plant was a bombing target of the Oil Campaign of World War IIThe Campaign Against Oil June-December 1944 The Buer town hall however survived in nearly original form.Gelsenkirchen.de: Das Rathaus Buer
Localities Meesdorf
Notable people Gerd Faltings (born 1954), German mathematician Oliver Mark (born 1963), German photographer and artist
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