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Leithe is the North Western most part of the City of Bochum in the Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. The population used to speak Westphalian, but now High German is the norm. Leithe borders to a part of the city of Essen also bearing the name of Leithe. Leithe belongs to the Stadtbezirk (district of the town) of Wattenscheid. Leithe has been the part of Wattenscheid with the third highest share of Roman Catholics in Wattenscheid in 1987, when the last census was held.