Stadtbezirk

Stadtbezirk is a form of German city ​​district , an administrative unit within a larger city. In Germany Stadtbezirke usually only has a metropolis with more than 150,000 inhabitants.

For example, Wattenscheid , which was a town in its own right until 1974, is now a Stadtbezirk within the city of Bochum in the Ruhr area of North Rhine-Westphalia .