Ausländerbehördlich erfaßt
Duisburg, West Germany, February, 1977. I was required to present myself at City Hall to have my passport stamped as a registered foreigner during my sojourn as an exchange student. This gave me leave to remain in the city for 2 months until a new stamp was required.
They ran a tight ship in Duisburg.
Most buildings in the city had a dark layer of coal soot built up over decades as the steel hub of Europe. Blast furnaces in the Ruhr industrial basin still operated when I lived there; deep orange sunsets occurred every evening when it wasn't raining. Today the furnaces are still, the sun shines without haze, and the stone building façades have been scrubbed clean.
Rathaus, Politik und Stadtverwaltung
Das Duisburger Rathaus stellt sich vor: Informationen zu Service, Rat und Verwaltung.
Link to the Duisburg city hall website.