Buer is the largest suburb of Gelsenkirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia.
The Hochstrasse in the heart of Buer is the largest shopping street in Gelsenkirchen.
In 1928, the adjoining cities of Buer, Gelsenkirchen, and Horst merged to form Gelsenkirchen-Buer, which was renamed Gelsenkirchen in 1930.
[1] The Scholven/Buer synthetic oil plant was a bombing target of the Oil Campaign of World War II[2] The Buer town hall however survived in nearly original form.
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