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Castrop-Rauxel, with a population of some 73,000, often simply referred to as Castrop, is a former coal mining city in the eastern part of the Ruhr Area in Germany, located between Dortmund to the southeast, Bochum to the southwest, Herne to the west, Recklinghausen to the northwest, Datteln to the north and Waltrop to the northeast.
During World War II, a plant at Castrop-Rauxel used the Bergius process to produce synthetic (German: Ersatz) oil products.
Castrop currently is assigned post codes 44575–44581.
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