"to 518,000 in 1985. Duisburg celebrated its 1100th anniversary in 1983. The city's population recovered a little in the following years, up to 537,000 in 1992. It declined to 488,000 in 2011. On 19 July 2004, it was hit by a tornado. The municipal theater and parts of the city center were damaged. The city hosted the 7th World Games in 2005. In 2010, 21 people died because of a mass panic at the Love Parade; over 500 people were injured. In 2010, Duisburg had a population of 489,600, a slight decrease since 2006. Population structure of non-German residents Circa"
"attended, making it the largest parade to date. The 2009 event, planned for Bochum, was cancelled; a year later, the deaths of 21 attendees at the Duisburg venue prompted the parade's organiser Rainer Schaller to declare an end to the festival. ""The Love Parade has always been a peaceful party, but it will forever be overshadowed by the accident, so out of respect for the victims the Love Parade will never take place again,"" Schaller said. The parade was one of the oldest and largest festivals of electronic music, together with Zürich's Streetparade, Mayday and Nature One. The music played"
"forty-nine were charged with bodily harm. There were 177 parade visitors provisionally arrested by the police. Arrests were usually related to drug crimes and most other incidents featured people passing out due to dehydration or hyperthermia. In 2000, after the parade, a girl under the influence of ecstasy was run over by an S-Bahn after she had been leaning on the door too hard. At the 2010 Love Parade in Duisburg, the number of people attending allegedly reached 1.4 million – the original expectation was around 800,000 – whereas police believed around 400,000 people were present. 21 people were killed,"
"the event and 3,200 police were on hand. As a consequence of the disaster, the organizer of the festival announced that no further Love Parades would be held and that the festival was permanently cancelled. Criminal charges were brought against ten employees of the city of Duisburg and of the company that organized the event, but eventually rejected by the court due to the prosecutors' failure to establish evidence for the alleged acts of negligence and their causal connection to the deaths. On 18 April 2017 the State Supreme Court Dusseldorf stated that it would be reopening court proceedings for"
"Johann Baptist"" in Duisburg-Hamborn, which was built in 900, to modern age buildings like Micro-Electronic-Centrum in Duisburg-Neudorf, built in 1995. Another subject of interest is the Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord an abandoned industrial complex open to the public and an Anchor Point of ERIH, The European Route of Industrial Heritage. The city center locates the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, the municipal theatre and the shopping street known as ""fountain mile"". The city also contains two botanical gardens, the Botanischer Garten Duisburg-Hamborn and the Botanischer Garten Kaiserberg, as well as a number of municipal parks. On 24 July 2010, 21 people were killed and"
"in Duisburg, Germany, on 24 July 2010, a local resident published internal documents of the city administration regarding the planning of Love Parade. The city government reacted by securing a court order on 16 August forcing the removal of the documents from the website on which it was hosted. On 20 August 2010, WikiLeaks released a publication entitled ""Loveparade 2010 Duisburg planning documents, 2007–2010"", which comprised 43 internal documents regarding the Love Parade 2010. After the leak of information concerning the Afghan War, in October 2010, around 400,000 documents relating to the Iraq War were released. The BBC quoted the"
"German bands Kettcar, Element of Crime and The Whitest Boy Alive. Again there was a combination of music and works of visual artists. The public radio and television broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk and the German newspaper ""Hamburger Abendblatt"" reported, that 15,000 people visited the festival on its second day, occasionally causing some logistic problems. The MS Dockville Festival of 2010 took place from August 13. til 15.. 111 artists performed, among them Klaxons, Wir sind Helden, Jan Delay, Jamie T, Slime, Neu!, K.I.Z., The Drums, , Uffie, Portugal. The Man, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Frittenbude, Die Sterne, The Whip, Agnes Carlsson,"
"Instead, the involved parties issued several statements accusing each other in a circular manner: On 26 July, Rainer Schaller, organiser of the festival, accused the police of mistakes in crowd control, which he claims led to the disaster. On 28 July, the interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia rejected this and assigned all the blame to Schaller, his company Lopavent, their security concept and the festival personnel. On 29 July, several hundred people rallied at Duisburg's city hall, demanding the resignation of the mayor, Adolf Sauerland, depicting him at the gallows. The protesters claimed that Sauerland had been aware of sub-standard"
"of visitors led to the accident. Similar festivals have taken place in other cities of Germany and many other countries worldwide. Large spin-off festivals in Europe include Zürich's Street Parade, Geneva's Lake Parade, Paris's Techno Parade, Rotterdam's FFWD Dance Parade, Munich's Union Move, Hamburg's Generation Move, Hannover's Reincarnation, Bremen's Vision Parade and the Love Parade and the Freeparade in Vienna. In 1994, 1995 and 1996 an event called Love Parade was held in Melbourne, Australia. Unlike its overseas counterparts, this was a smaller ""rave party"" version of the festival. In 1996 it was held at Festival Hall in West Melbourne"
"internal documents of the city administration regarding the planning of Love Parade. The city government reacted by securing a court order on 16 August forcing the removal of the documents from the site on which it was hosted. On 20 August 2010, WikiLeaks released a publication entitled ""Loveparade 2010 Duisburg planning documents, 2007–2010"", which comprised 43 internal documents regarding the Love Parade 2010, from the Duisburg police, contractors at the parade and other parties involved from 2007–2010. The German police and State's Attorney (Staatsanwaltschaft) opened a criminal investigation. In 2016, a Duisburg court rejected the case, stating that the prosecutors"
"Satan, Scarab, Scarnival, Skiltron, Texas In July, The Crimson Ghosts, The Scalding, Torian, Vulture Industries July 16–18 : Carcass, Eluveitie, Gamma Ray, Acyl, Beyond the Black, Butwetryit, Crossplane, Debauchery, Die apokalyptischen Reiter, Fiddlers Green, Gil Gamesh, Kissin' Dynamite, Sunchair, The Black Dahlia Murder, Torturized, Vogelfrey, War Kabinett, Wizard, Words of Farewell, Wulfpack, Excremetory Grindfuckers, Mantar, Miseo, The Prosecution, Insanity Dong Open Air Dong Open Air is a heavy metal music festival held annually in Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany since 2001. August 17–18: Blood Red Angel, Decapitation, Fianna, Guerrilla, Heartwork, Impure, N.R.G., Stripped Of Flesh, Yppah Nomed. July 19–20: Adorned Brood, Amityville, Blood"
"Die Schinder, Destruction, Discipline, Dritte Wahl, Enslaved, Grave Digger, Hypocrisy, Ignite, In Extremo, Immortal, Lagwagon, Mayhem, Metalium, Troopers, Mercyful Fate, Misfits, Moshquito, OOMPHI, Painflow, Pitchshifter, Richthofen, H2O, Pro Pain, Ryker's, Samael, Satyricon, Six Feet Under, Skyclad, Tanzwut, Theatre Of Tragedy, Terrorgruppe, Temple Of The Absurd, Totenmond With Full Force With Full Force is a German heavy metal and hardcore punk-oriented festival held annually since 1994. The 2011 edition took place between 1 and 3 July at Roitzschjora airport in Löbnitz near Leipzig in the Saxon county of Delitzsch. 2–4 July<br>Artists announced so far: Amorphis, As I Lay Dying, Bloodwork, Born"
"With Full Force With Full Force is a German heavy metal and hardcore punk-oriented festival held annually since 1994. The 2011 edition took place between 1 and 3 July at Roitzschjora airport in Löbnitz near Leipzig in the Saxon county of Delitzsch. 2–4 July<br>Artists announced so far: Amorphis, As I Lay Dying, Bloodwork, Born From Pain, Burning Skies, Caliban, Callejon, Cannibal Corpse, Death Before Dishonor, Down by Law, Earth Crisis, Ektomorf, Elsterglanz, Evergreen Terrace, Fear Factory, Heaven Shall Burn, HORSE the Band, Killswitch Engage, Letzte Instanz, Maximum Penalty, Neaera, NOFX, Sick of it All, Slayer, Texas in July, The Bones,"
"been his final full concert. Hurricane Festival The Hurricane Festival, also just Hurricane, is a music festival that takes place in Scheeßel near Bremen, Germany, usually every June. The festival and its guests are generally associated with the alternative part of mainstream music, although the festival has been becoming more and more mainstream over the years. The Southside Festival, often referred to as the ""sister"" of Hurricane, takes place on the same three days in the very south of Germany (contrary to Hurricane, which is in the north). Together they are a twin festival, since they are on the same"
"2012"" (""Winterstürme in Europa - Historie von 1703 bis 2012""), Aon Benfield assessed the cost of insurance payouts for storm damage in Germany as 1.5 billion euros. Apart from Germany (15 deaths), other countries affected badly were the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland. In Hamburg there were several successive storm surges. Thanks to the storms, the Rosenmontag parade in Düsseldorf was postponed until May, whilst in Cologne it went ahead with high safety precautions. Death toll: The fatalities are given as 64 persons, the damage is estimated as ca. 1.11 billion €. Particularly in mountain regions,"
"longest festival took place between 22 and 24 August 2008. Deichbrand took place at Seeflughafen Cuxhaven/Nordholz, near Wanhöden, between 16 and 18 July 2010. Deichbrand took place at Seeflughafen Cuxhaven/Nordholz, near Wanhöden, between the 22 and 24 July 2011. The 8th Deichbrand took place between 20 and 22 July 2012, at Seeflughafen Cuxhaven/Nordholz, near Wanhöden. A few gigs such as Frittenbude or Die Orsons on Friday were cancelled last-minute because of a damaged stage. The stage was damaged by a cyclone. The 9th Deichbrand took place between 18 and 21 July 2013, at Seeflughafen Cuxhaven/Nordholz. Deichbrand Deichbrand is a music"
"numbers"" for media attention in accordance with the organiser of the event. The organiser and the administration had also claimed 1.4 million visitors on the day the disaster occurred but it turned out that the festival area proper (excluding the ramp, tunnel, underpasses, and crowded streets outside the access points), which had been approved for 250,000, was apparently not filled at the time. Due to threats on his life, Sauerland was under police protection at that time. After the Duisburg city council failed to reach a 2/3-majority to trigger an impeachment against Lord Mayor Adolf Sauerland (his CDU refused to"
"The climax is the Dixieland parade through the city centre, which culminates in a farewell jazz session. Internationales Dixieland Festival Dresden Internationales Dixieland Festival Dresden is a jazz festival in Germany. It first took place in 1971. As Germany's oldest and Europe's biggest old-time jazz festival it is a firm fixture in the European scene. For eight days and seven nights, the capital of Saxony becomes Swingin' Dresden and draws up to around half a million jazz fans to the city, depending on the weather. One of the annual highlights is the riverboat shuffle on the Elbe, when the world's"
"hundreds injured in the city during the Love Parade, an electronic music procession and party. Duisburg is involved in many kinds of sports. Nevertheless, most important for its inhabitants is the local football club MSV Duisburg. Recently, with the new MSV Arena the city received a brand new sports stadium for various kinds of sports such as football and American football. During the summer months of 2005 the World Games took place in Duisburg. During the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Duisburg was the stage for preparation of the Portuguese team and the residence of the Italian football team, who won"
"below. The car's 46-year-old driver was severely injured and had to be rescued by the fire brigade. The driver of another car travelling on the A3 was slightly injured, as he was unable to brake in time and crashed into the fallen car. On 18 July 2010, a stretch of the A40 between Dortmund and Duisburg was closed for the Ruhr.2010 European Capital of Culture project ""Still-Leben"" (""Still Life""). As part of that event, several hundred thousand people gathered at Kreuz Kaiserberg to celebrate Ruhr.2010. In the centre of the intersection was an installation by German-based American artist Rita McBride"
"much as 30% lower. The numbers of the Ruhr Love Parades have probably been tripled. Accurate counts are not available since entry is free and uncontrolled. The mayor of Dortmund and the police confirmed the number of participants in Dortmund. Love Parade The Love Parade () was a popular electronic dance music festival and technoparade that originated in 1989 in West Berlin, Germany. It was held annually in Berlin from 1989 to 2003 and in 2006, then from 2007 to 2010 in the Ruhr region. Events scheduled for 2004 and 2005 in Berlin and for 2009 in Bochum were cancelled."
"and more than 500 injured, in an incident on an overcrowded ramp leading from a tunnel into the festival. At least 20 casualties resulted from suffocation, caused by crowd pressure. Safety experts and a fire service investigator had previously warned that the site was not suitable for the numbers expected to attend. Rainer Schaller, the festival's organizer and chief executive officer, later said the festival would not continue in future. A preliminary investigation of the ministry of the interior placed heavy blame on the organizers around Rainer Schaller. Schaller in turn claimed that errors by the police in controlling streams"
"Hurricane Festival The Hurricane Festival, also just Hurricane, is a music festival that takes place in Scheeßel near Bremen, Germany, usually every June. The festival and its guests are generally associated with the alternative part of mainstream music, although the festival has been becoming more and more mainstream over the years. The Southside Festival, often referred to as the ""sister"" of Hurricane, takes place on the same three days in the very south of Germany (contrary to Hurricane, which is in the north). Together they are a twin festival, since they are on the same days and usually have the"
"Internationales Dixieland Festival Dresden Internationales Dixieland Festival Dresden is a jazz festival in Germany. It first took place in 1971. As Germany's oldest and Europe's biggest old-time jazz festival it is a firm fixture in the European scene. For eight days and seven nights, the capital of Saxony becomes Swingin' Dresden and draws up to around half a million jazz fans to the city, depending on the weather. One of the annual highlights is the riverboat shuffle on the Elbe, when the world's oldest and largest fleet of paddle-steamers becomes a floating stage and festival-goers are invited to step aboard."
"Summer Breeze Open Air Summer Breeze Open Air is a German heavy metal music festival. It takes place annually in Dinkelsbühl, Bavaria. It was first held in 1997. The festival had been held in Abtsgmünd until 2006 when it was moved to its new location of Dinkelsbühl. The festival draws around 40,000 attendees annually. 16–19 August 2017 17-20 August 2016 12-15 August 2015 14–16 August 2014 15–17 August 2013 Amon Amarth, Amorphis, Anaal Nathrakh, Backyard Babies, Battlelore, Before the Dawn, Beneath the Massacre, Benighted, Black Messiah, Born from Pain, Brainstorm, Callejon, Corvus Corax, Cataract, Cynic, Dagoba, Deadlock, Deathstars, Elvenking, Entombed,"
"the two-day Keep It True XII festival at Tauberfrankenhalle in Lauda-Königshofen Germany 2009. North American festival appearances included Rocklahoma and Rock Gone Wild. On Jan 24, 2009, former guitarist Corey James died in a car accident. In 2010 Lizzy Borden toured North America and Europe, including festival appearances at Wacken Open Air 2010, Alcatraz Metal Festival, Leyendas del Rock festival (cancelled) and Elsrock Festival. In 2011 Lizzy Borden launched the ""Summer of Blood"" tour in North American Followed by the European version, entitled ""Death Takes a Holiday Tour"", festival appearances in 2011 included Heaven and Hell Metal Fest, Christmas Metal"
"Oktoberfest bombing The Oktoberfest bombing was a terrorist attack with a right-wing radical background. On 26 September 1980, 13 people died and 211 were injured after the explosion of an improvised explosive device (IED) at the main entrance of the Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany. The attack is considered to be the most severe act of terrorism in post-war Germany. The attack was attributed to the right-wing extremist and geology student Gundolf Köhler who was killed while placing the explosive device; however, doubts remain as to whether he acted alone. Attempts to re-open the investigation in the years following the bombing"
"would move to the Ruhr Area for the next five years. The first event took place in Essen on 25 August. The parade in Essen saw 1.2 million visitors in comparison to the 500,000 who attended the 2006 parade in Berlin. In 2008, the festival took place in Dortmund on 19 July on the Bundesstraße 1 under the motto ""Highway of Love"". The event was planned as a ""Love Weekend"", with parties throughout the region. For the first time the Turkish electronic scene was represented by its own float, called ""Turkish Delights"". The official estimate is that 1.6 million visitors"
"Mafia? Nein danke! Mafia? Nein Danke! (""Mafia? No Thanks!"") is an anti-mafia movement that was created in Germany after the Duisburg massacre in August 2007. Born On 15 August 2007 in Duisburg in North Rhine-Westphalia in front of the Italian restaurant ""Da Bruno"" six people belonging to the 'Ndrangheta were killed in a blood feud between 'Ndrangheta families. The event is remembered as the Duisburg massacre. In response to the fragmented representation of the problem of Italian organized crime in Germany, often based on superficial stereotypes, a group of Italian immigrants in Berlin decided to commit to propose to the"
"severely injuring dozens. Organizers of Pohoda Festival decided, despite the 2009 tragedy, that the festival would take place in 2010. The 2010 festival took place on 8th, 9 and 10 July, on Trenčín Airport. The most notable artists included The xx, Klaxons, Crystal Castles, José González, Scissor Sisters, Friendly Fires, Digitalism (DJ set), The Stranglers, The Futureheads, New Young Pony Club, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, múm, Autechre, Jape, These New Puritans, Leftfield, Ian Brown and Collegium Musicum. Attendance was limited to 30,000 visitors. The Pohoda Festival 2011 took place from Thursday 7 until Saturday 9 July 2011. Most notable"
"playing, a strong downburst hit the park. Six steel towers supporting the PA system collapsed and 25 people were injured, and a young woman was crushed to death. The festival stages and equipment were also damaged, and the organizers were forced to cancel the performances of My Chemical Romance, Linkin Park, The Killers and Pearl Jam. The Police took control of the festival area and the festival was cancelled. Heineken Jammin' Festival Heineken Jammin' Festival is a large live rock festival in Milan, Italy featuring international and Italian rock acts. It started in mid-June 1998 at the Imola Autodrome and"
"Dong Open Air Dong Open Air is a heavy metal music festival held annually in Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany since 2001. August 17–18: Blood Red Angel, Decapitation, Fianna, Guerrilla, Heartwork, Impure, N.R.G., Stripped Of Flesh, Yppah Nomed. July 19–20: Adorned Brood, Amityville, Blood Red Angel, Complex 7, Guerrilla, Fianna, Hate Factor, Mabus, N.R.G., Sarx, Schattenleben, Sencirow, Torture Chamber, Violet. July 18–19: Abaddon, Adorned Brood, Antifreeze, Burden of Grief, Folkedudl, Hate Factor, Night in Gales, Osyris, Psychotron, Ratsbane, Skyclad, Sun of Sadness, Violet, Witchtower. July 16–17: Chainheart, Crikey, Dark Suns, Disillusion, Equilibrium, Final Breath, Humanity, Insignium, Jack Slater, Jester's Funeral, Lanfear, My Darkest"
"rear, despite being told it was closed. The deaths occurred as the ramp between tunnel underpasses and the festival area became overcrowded. There was some debate as to how the deaths occurred. Some reports suggested they were caused by people falling off a staircase as they tried to escape the tunnel. However, autopsies showed that all of the fatalities were due to crushed rib cages. A 2012 scientific analysis of the causes of the disaster dismissed the earlier descriptions of the incident as stampede or crowd panic, and instead found evidence of a phenomenon called ""crowd turbulence"". Lopavent GmbH, the"