Eskişehir

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Eskişehir
Eskişehir Coat of Arms
Eskişehir (Turkey)
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Basic data
Province (il) : Eskişehir
Coordinates : 39 ° 47 '  N , 30 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 39 ° 46 '50 "  N , 30 ° 31' 10"  E
Height : 790  m
Residents : 685,727 (2013)
Telephone code : (+90)
Postal code : 26,000
License plate : 26th
Structure and administration (as of 2019)
Mayor : Yılmaz Büyükerşen ( CHP )
Website:
Eskişehir County
Kaymakam : Kadir Koçdemir
Website (Kaymakam):
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Doctoral Caddesi

Eskişehir ( Turkish for "old city" , the original name in antiquity and Byzantium was Δορύλαιον Eskisehir , German formerly Eski-Schehir ) with 685,727 inhabitants (2013) one of the largest cities in Anatolia of and the capital of the same province.

The area around Eskişehir is mainly known for the mining of sepiolite (Lületaş) . In the city center there are numerous shops that sell meerschaum pipes , which have been carved here since 1700.

history

The city of Eskişehir was founded in the first millennium BC. Founded on the Porsuk river by the Phrygians and is located at one of the most important crossings of Anatolia . It has a long Hittite , Phrygian , Roman , Byzantine and Ottoman history.

In 1097 the Crusaders and Seljuks fought against each other in the Battle of Dorylaeum . In recent times, many Tatars have been settled. In the Turkish War of Liberation in 1918 there were some skirmishes around the city. In 1980 the politician and bureaucrat Gün Sazak was killed in Eskişehir ; this led to unrest and the Çorum pogrom .

climate

Eskişehir is characterized by a continental climate with cold, snowy winters (average temperature ~ 0 ° C) and hot, dry summers (average temperature ~ 22 ° C). Rain falls all year round, but a pronounced dry phase can be observed in the summer months. According to Köppen , the location can be described as a semi-arid steppe climate (BSk).

Eskişehir, Odunpazarı
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Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm
Source: State Meteorological Office of the Republic of Turkey, normal period 1981–2010
Monthly average temperatures and rainfall for Eskişehir, Odunpazarı
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 4.1 6.3 11.5 16.9 21.9 26.1 29.0 29.4 25.5 19.5 12.0 5.8 O 17.4
Min. Temperature (° C) −3.7 −3.4 −0.9 3.5 7.3 11.0 13.7 13.6 9.2 5.1 1.4 −1.7 O 4.6
Temperature (° C) 0.0 1.1 4.9 10.1 14.9 19.1 21.8 21.7 17.2 11.8 5.7 1.8 O 10.9
Precipitation ( mm ) 35.1 27.9 30.6 44.0 40.5 24.4 13.4 8.3 13.7 30.2 35.8 43.7 Σ 347.6
Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 2.5 3.8 5.2 6.2 8.5 10.2 11.2 10.8 8.8 6.1 4.0 2.1 O 6.6
Rainy days ( d ) 12.2 11.2 11.3 11.4 9.7 6.7 3.6 2.9 4.0 8.2 10.0 12.9 Σ 104.1
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traffic

rail

Tram in Eskişehir

Eskişehir is located on the Anatolian Railway and the largely parallel high-speed line Ankara – İstanbul , about halfway between Istanbul and Ankara. Of the structurally demanding path ( loop tunnel Bilecik ) next track branches here to Ankara and Afyonkarahisar .

A serious railway accident occurred here on October 31, 1972 : a passenger train and a freight train collided, several cars fell down a slope and caught fire. More than 30 people died and 50 more were injured.

Eskişehir has had a narrow-gauge modern tram , the EsTram, since 2004 . Right now (2018) there are seven, with modern low-floor - railcars operated lines in operation:


The Eskişehir tram network in 2018

Street

In contrast to most other Turkish cities, the traffic pressure was not countered with further road, intersection and underpass expansion, but instead focused on a more pedestrian-friendly design, especially in the inner city . Zones for the car traffic are blocked, predominate, and there are cafes and restaurants that the city for walk-in customers, tourists and residents makes them attractive.

Eskişehir has a modern bus station (Otogar).

Airport

The Eskişehir Anadolu-Airport is served by scheduled airlines.

economy

In Eskişehir, a consortium consisting of the companies Tülomsaş ( bogies ), Hiztaz ( car body ) and epa / Kiepe ( electrics and air conditioning ) will convert the vehicles for the Gaziantep tram from used P-cars of the Frankfurt tram into a locomotive and car factory rebuilt on the Main . The first converted vehicle was brought for test drives from Eskişehir to Konya , because neither Eskişehir nor Gaziantep could test run the standard-gauge vehicles due to the lack of infrastructure .

The textile company SARAR is based in Eskişehir.

Barry Callebaut has had a production facility in Eskişehir since October 2013 .

education

The city is home to Anadolu University and Osmangazi University with a total of over 70,000 students.

According to an agency report dated April 6, 2018, a researcher at Osmangazi University killed a faculty head and 3 other teachers in a shootout in the building of the educational faculty .

Attractions

The Odunpazarı, old houses made of clay , in the center of the city and the bridge over the Porsuk, also in the city center, are worth seeing .

Museums in Eskisehir:

Parks in Eskişehir:

  • Kentpark
  • Sazova Parkı
and display information about the image
Panorama shot from Kentpark, October 2012

In the neighborhood:

  • Odunpazarı, October 2012

  • Odunpazarı

  • View of the Porsuk , October 2012

  • Love Island in Porsuk, October 2012

  • Street scene Eskişehir, October 2012

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities related to the city

Town twinning

sports clubs

Web links

Commons : Eskişehir  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official website of the city of Eskisehir , accessed July 1, 2013
  2. ↑ One city one person report on Eskişehir in the TRT
  3. ^ Peter WB Semmens: Catastrophes on rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 , p. 179.
  4. ↑ http://eltis.org/study_sheet.phtml?study_id=2559&lang1  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / eltis.org  
  5. ↑ VGF employee magazine "in Fahrt" April / May 2010, p. 18
  6. ↑ Arne Homborg: Barry Callebaut's new chocolate factory in Turkey ( memento of the original from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (October 3, 2013, accessed November 15, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theobroma-cacao.de
  7. ↑ Four dead after an armed attack at the Turkish university orf.at, April 6, 2018, accessed April 6, 2018.
  8. ↑ http://www.eskisehir-bld.gov.tr/spot_kardes_sehir.php