Steele, Essen

Steele is a suburb of Essen, Germany.

It is bordered on the south by the Ruhr river, and by the suburbs of Kray in the north, Leithe in the northeast, Freisenbruch in the east, Horst in the southeast, Überruhr in the south, Bergerhausen in the southwest, and Huttrop in the west.

Steele became a city in the Ruhrgebiet (Ruhr area) in 1578, and in 1905 its population was 12,988.

A Diet of the Holy Roman Empire was held here in the year 938 by the emperor Otto I.

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