Every design for Bochum
The big city that shaped you
13 unique designs from the city of Bochum in Nordrhein-Westfalen – map designs, local expressions and symbols only people who know the place will read. Also available as t-shirt, hoodie or tote bag.
T-shirt
from 249 SEK
Hoodie
from 499 SEK
Tote bag
from 129 SEK
About Bochum
Coal mining
Ruhr University
Starlight Express
In the halls of the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum, school groups crowd round the old mining gear while grandparents explain what a shift underground really meant. Bochum lies on gently rolling hills between the Ruhr to the south and the Emscher to the north, right at the centre of Germany's largest urban area, and for generations its life was built on coal.
The city people remember is full of small, shared moments. A first visit to the Zeiss Planetarium Bochum, staring up at a domed sky. A night out in the Bermuda3eck, the quarter of bars and clubs where half the city seems to end up. Saturday afternoons at the Ruhrstadion cheering on VfL Bochum. A family trip to Starlight Express, the musical that has run longer in one place than any other in the world. And the Ruhr-Universität, one of the ten largest universities in Germany, which turned a mining town into a student city almost overnight.
The Malakowturm and the Tippelsberg still mark the landscape of an older Bochum. For anyone who grew up here, the map is a record of school runs, first jobs and the walks home in between.
Shown on the map
Location: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Coordinates: 51.4818°N, 7.2197°E
