Essen
About Essen
Essen is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of 574,682 makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and Dortmund, as well as the tenth-largest city of Germany. Essen lies in the larger Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, second largest by GDP in the EU, and is part of the cultural area of Rhineland. Due to its central location in the Ruhr, Essen is often regarded as the Ruhr's "secret capital".
On the show — 3 mentions total
He was kept for 17 days, he negotiates a cheaper ransom and they agreed to it, a bishop comes and delivers it — the Bishop of Essen, which is the city that they were from.
from 479: No Such Thing As Fake Coal, 2023-05-19 at 00:04:28 · read transcript
Other times Essen came up
How do you make sure that the frequency is always the same when you're sending this signal out? Yeah. I don't know. They used to have a thing called an Essen ring and it was made of quartz. If you apply voltage to quartz, it vibrates at very precise frequency and you had to, it had to be in a perfect ring and you had to sort of hang it up by nylon threads. It's so cool, the technology we used to have.
586: No Such Thing As A Levis Jury, 2025-06-05 · listen
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Coordinates: 51.4508, 7.0131