Send Flowers to Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Gelsenkirchen was once called the city of a thousand fires for its coal mines and coking plants, and the mining heritage still shapes local pride, above all in the form of FC Schalke 04, a club that grew out of the miners' district that gave it its name. The pits have closed. In their place are landscape parks such as Nordsternpark on the Rhine-Herne Canal, solar technology firms and a zoo laid out as themed worlds.

The city has two hearts: the old centre in the south and Buer in the north, a more bourgeois town with its own high street and the green spaces around Schloss Berge. Between them lie Erle, Horst, Bismarck and Ückendorf. Many families here have roots in Poland, Turkey and southern Europe, and many grown-up children have moved away for work, which is why so many people send flowers to Gelsenkirchen from other countries. Order before midnight local time for next-day delivery, Monday to Saturday. There is no delivery on Sundays.

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