Gelsenkirchen-Buer (DE)
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Buer is a district of the independent city of Gelsenkirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia. Together with the districts of Scholven and Hassel, it forms the district of Gelsenkirchen-Nord.
The district of Buer bears the name of the former city of Buer, founded in 1911, which - together with Horst - was united with Gelsenkirchen in 1928 (until May 1930 the united city was called Gelsenkirchen-Buer, then Gelsenkirchen). The current part of the city only occupies the core area of the former city of Buer (the area around the old village including the areas of the former farmers' associations Löchter, Bülse and Heege). The former urban area of Buer was much larger and included all of today's districts of Gelsenkirchen, north of the Emscher, with the exception of Horst. The three districts of Gelsenkirchen-Nord, Gelsenkirchen-West and Gelsenkirchen-Ost, which are formed by the eight present-day districts north of the Emscher including Horst and historically largely belonged to Buer, make up a little more than half of Gelsenkirchen's population. Buer is still partly seen by the population as an “independent old community” according to local color. In addition to the geographical location and historical events, this delimitation is expressed in the size of the town center and the accumulation of upscale residential areas in Buer in relation to the city as a whole.
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