Editing Oberhausen (section)

==History==
Oberhausen was named for its 1847 railway station which had taken its name from the [[List of castles in North Rhine-Westphalia|Oberhausen Castle]]. The new borough was formed in 1862 following inflow of people for the local [[coal]] mines and [[steel]] mills. Awarded town rights in 1874, Oberhausen absorbed several neighbouring boroughs including [[Alstaden]], parts of [[Styrum]] and [[Dümpten]] in 1910. Oberhausen became a city in 1901, and they incorporated the towns of [[Sterkrade]] and Osterfeld in 1929. The [[Hoechst AG|Ruhrchemie AG]] synthetic oil plant ("Oberhausen-Holten" or "Sterkrade/Holten")<ref>{{cite web|last=Powell|first=A.R.|date=9–10 January 1945|title=Detailed Summary of meeting of Oil Mission Held in New Interior Building|url=http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%20Reels/Linked/B1870/B1870-0073-0208%20Item%204.pdf|publisher=Enemy Oil Intelligence Committee|page=17 (p61 of pdf)|access-date=25 March 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821144535/http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%20Reels/Linked/B1870/B1870-0073-0208%20Item%204.pdf|archive-date=21 August 2008}}</ref> was a bombing target of the [[oil campaign of World War II]], and the US forces<!-- 295th Ordnance Heavy Maintenance Company (FA) --> reached the plant by 4 April 1945.

In 1973, [[Thyssen AG]] employed 14,000 people in Oberhausen in the steel industry, but ten years later the number had fallen to 6,000.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/27/business/the-twilight-of-the-industrial-ruhr.html?pagewanted=all|title=The Twilight of the Industrial Ruhr|last=John Tagliabue|date=27 November 1983|work=[[New York Times]]|access-date=16 November 2015}}</ref>

In 1954 the city began hosting the [[International Short Film Festival Oberhausen]], and the 1982 [[Deutscher Filmpreis]] was awarded to a group that wrote the [[Oberhausen Manifesto]].