German city on the Ruhr
The crossword clue "German city on the Ruhr" is answered by ESSEN, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1984. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
ESSEN
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Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1984. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ESSEN
Every other clue in this collection answered by ESSEN, most used first.
- Ruhr Valley city - used 155 times, most recently in 2026
- Ruhr city - used 141 times, most recently in 2024
- German steel city - used 97 times, most recently in 2026
- German industrial city - used 91 times, most recently in 2025
- City on the Ruhr - used 78 times, most recently in 2025
- German city - used 78 times, most recently in 2026
- Krupp Works city - used 39 times, most recently in 2018
- Big Bertha's birthplace - used 34 times, most recently in 2022
- City north of Cologne - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
- German steel center - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Krupp Works site - used 17 times, most recently in 2002
- To eat: Ger. - used 17 times, most recently in 1997
- Birthplace of Big Bertha - used 13 times, most recently in 2014
- City in the Ruhr valley - used 13 times, most recently in 2011
- City near Oberhausen - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- German industrial center - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
- Industrial city of Germany - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Ruhr hub - used 11 times, most recently in 2014
- Ruhr industrial center - used 10 times, most recently in 2011
- City near Cologne - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- W. German city - used 9 times, most recently in 2003
- West German city - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Chief city of the Ruhr. - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Krupp city. - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
- Ruhr metropolis. - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- German steel town - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Krupp's city - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
- Ruhr industrial hub - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
- Ruhr Valley hub - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Site of the Krupp works - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Steel city of Germany - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- German industrial hub - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Museum Folkwang city - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Steel city - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
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