page_title: Duisburg
section_title: Industrial revolution
hierarchical_section_title: Duisburg / History / Industrial revolution
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Zur Arbeitslosigkeit verbannt! Blick auf den grössten Binnenhafen der Welt in Duisburg, mit der durch die große Weltwirtschaftskrise stillgelegten Schiffahrt.
context_page_description: Duisburg is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western German state North Rhine-Westphalia. Lying on the confluence of the Rhine and the Ruhr rivers, Duisburg is one of the largest cities in the Ruhr and the 15th-largest city in Germany.
  In the Middle Ages, it was a city-state and a member of the Hanseatic League, and later became a major centre of iron, steel, and chemicals industries. For this reason, it was heavily bombed in World War II. Today it boasts the world's largest inland port, with 21 docks and 40 kilometres of wharf.
context_section_description: The rise of tobacco and textile industries in the 18th century made Duisburg an industrial center.  Big industrial companies such as iron and steel producing firms (Thyssen and Krupp) influenced the development of the city within the Prussian Rhine Province.
  Large housing areas near production sites were being built as workers and their families moved in.
  1823 a district ("Landkreis") Duisburg is established including the cities of Essen and Mülheim an der Ruhr.
  1824 construction of the sulfuric acid factory Fr. W. Curtius; beginning of the industry age in Duisburg.
  1828 Franz Haniel builds a dockyard for steamships
  1846 railway line to Düsseldorf
  1847 railway line via Dortmund to Minden
  1873 Duisburg becomes an independent city borough.
  1904 Birth of the 100,000th resident (Ernst R. Straube)
  1921 French Infantry occupy the city on 8 March to secure war reparation payments incurred during World War I.
  1929 The city of Hamborn and Duisburg are joined together. The new city is given the name of Duisburg-Hamborn.
  1935 Duisburg-Hamborn is renamed Duisburg.
  1938 (November) The Nazis destroy the city's synagogue.
caption: Binnenhafen in 1931
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