Mülheim (Ruhr) Hauptbahnhof Mülheim (Ruhr) Hauptbahnhof Mülheim (Ruhr) Hauptbahnhof is a railway station for the city of Mülheim in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was renamed as a Hauptbahnhof in 1974 at the time of the rebuilding of the Dortmund–Duisburg line as part of the establishment of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station. The original station is unusual in that it was built as two adjoining stations by the two main private railways buildings lines in the Ruhr area, the Rhenish Railway Company ("Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft", "RhE") and the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company ("Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn
Occupation of the Ruhr Occupation of the Ruhr The Occupation of the Ruhr () was a period of military occupation of the German Ruhr valley by France and Belgium between 1923 and 1925. The occupation was a response to the Weimar Republic widely and regularly defaulting on reparation payments in the early 1920s. The total reparation sum of £6.6 billion had been dictated by the Triple Entente in 1921 in the Treaty of Versailles, and the reparation payments were due to last several decades. The Ruhr region had been occupied by Allied troops in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, during the