US superstar Taylor Swift was greeted by some 60,000 fans on Wednesday evening as she kicked off the German leg of her record-breaking Eras Tour in the western city of Gelsenkirchen. “Gelsenkirchen, welcome to the Eras Tour! Good evening,” the 34-year-old shouted out to the cheers of the crowd in the city’s sold-out Veltins Arena. “Nice to see you,” she also said in German. In English, she said: “It won’t be that long before I come back again.” Swift, who last toured Germany nine years ago, will also be performing in Gelsenkirchen on Thursday and Friday. The industrial city is one of the lesse…