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Photo: Arne Müseler from Salzburg, AT, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
They were promoted in 2026 so they now play soccer in Bundesliga, the top tier. Their Veltins Arena (capacity 62,000) is 3 km north of the centre, or 2 km northeast of Gelsenkirchen Zoo railway station.
Arena AufSchalke, currently known as Veltins-Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium with a retractable roof and slide-out pitch in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It opened on 13 August 2001 as the new home ground of FC Schalke 04. The stadium has a capacity of 62,271 for league matches and 54,740 for international matches. Its naming rights were sold to the German brewery Veltins in July 2005.
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Small exhibition inside of the Arena, dedicated to FC Schalke 04, who call it their home since 2001.
Halde Rungenberg
The Rungenberg mining tip is a 40 m tall tip created by dumping millions of tons of soil from coal mining. Since the end of mining, it has been landscaped and made accessible as viewpoint, by using the ramps or climbing a 300-step staircase straight to the top.
Buer city hall
Build in 1910, this monumental building used to house both the city council of the old City of Buer, as well as the council of Gelsenkirchen until the 1960s after being annexed by it in 1928. Decorated by numerous artworks and topped by a clock tower, it stands as one of the landmarks of Buer and still serves as office for numerous branches of the city administration.
Art museum in Buer district.
A former industrial park offering many attractions including a bike/walking trails along a canal, an open air theater (which plays featured films in the summer time), rock climbing, a children's play land, and a colliery.
Modern interesting glass office building in a triangular shape. Constructed during a building exhibition on grounds of an old metal factory in 1996, it's now home to offices with a focus on sustainability, IT and healthcare.