Editing Gelsenkirchen (section)

===After the war===
On 17 December 1953, the {{lang|de|Kokerei Hassel}} went into operation, billed as Germany's "first new [[coking plant]]" since the war. The [[Scholven Power Station]] was built in the late 1960s with further development until 1985, one of the largest in Europe at the time.<ref>[https://www.uniper.energy/germany/power-plants-germany/scholven "Scholven"], [[Uniper]]. {{Retrieved|access-date=30 January 2024}}</ref> Its {{convert|302|m|feet}} chimneys are among the tallest in Germany. When [[postal code]]s were introduced in 1961, Gelsenkirchen was one of the few cities in [[West Germany]] to be given two codes: Buer was given 466, while Gelsenkirchen got 465. These were in use until 1 July 1993. The first [[comprehensive school]] in North Rhine-Westphalia was opened in 1969. Scholven-Chemie AG (the old hydrogenation plant) merged with Gelsenberg-Benzin-AG to form the new corporation VEBA-Oel AG. In 1987, [[Pope John Paul II]] celebrated [[Mass (liturgy)|Mass]] before 85,000 people at Gelsenkirchen's [[Parkstadion]]. The Pope also became an honorary member of [[FC Schalke 04]].

In 1997, the Federal Garden Show ({{lang|de|Bundesgartenschau}} or {{lang|de|BUGA}}) was held on the grounds of the disused {{Interlanguage link|Zeche Nordstern|de|lt=Nordstern}} [[coalmine]] in Horst. In 1999, the last phase of the [[Internationale Bauausstellung Emscher Park]], an undertaking that brought together many cities in North Rhine-Westphalia, was held. [[Coke (fuel)|Coke]] was produced at the old Hassel coking works for the last time on 29 September 1999. This marked the shutdown of the last coking plant in Gelsenkirchen, after being a coking town for more than 117 years. In the same year, Shell Solar Deutschland AG took over production of [[photovoltaic]] equipment. On 28 April 2000, the Ewald-Hugo colliery closed &ndash; Gelsenkirchen's last colliery. Three thousand coalminers lost their jobs. In 2003, Buer celebrated its thousandth anniversary of first documentary mention, and FC Schalke 04 celebrated on 4 May 2004 its hundredth anniversary.

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