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Castrop-Rauxel
Castrop-Rauxel (), often simply referred to as Castrop by locals, is a former coal mining city in the eastern part of the Ruhr Area in Germany. Geography Castrop-Rauxel is located in Germany between Dortmund to the southeast, Bochum to the southwest, Herne to the west, Recklinghausen to the northwest, Datteln to the north and Waltrop to the northeast. Urban area The city covers an area of . The Halde Schwerin (slag heap in the Schwerin district) is marked as the point of highest elevation at above sea level. The lowest point is located on Pöppinghauser Straße (Poppinghausen Street), besides house number 264, with an elevation of above sea level. The city is divided into 15 districts, from north to south and within one line from west (southwest) to east (northeast): * Henrichenburg (Becklem) * Pöppinghausen, Habinghorst, Ickern * Bladenhorst, Rauxel, Deininghausen * Behringhausen, Castrop, Dingen * Obercastrop, Schwerin * Bövinghausen, Merklinde, Frohlinde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castrop-Rauxel Pferderennbahn
Castrop-Rauxel (), often simply referred to as Castrop by locals, is a former coal mining city in the eastern part of the Ruhr Area in Germany. Geography Castrop-Rauxel is located in Germany between Dortmund to the southeast, Bochum to the southwest, Herne, Germany, Herne to the west, Recklinghausen to the northwest, Datteln to the north and Waltrop to the northeast. Urban area The city covers an area of . The Halde Schwerin (slag heap in the Schwerin district) is marked as the point of highest elevation at above sea level. The lowest point is located on Pöppinghauser Straße (Poppinghausen Street), besides house number 264, with an elevation of above sea level. The city is divided into 15 districts, from north to south and within one line from west (southwest) to east (northeast): * Henrichenburg (Becklem) * Pöppinghausen, Habinghorst, Ickern * Bladenhorst, Rauxel, Deininghausen * Behringhausen, Castrop, Dingen * Obercastrop, Schwerin * Bövinghausen, Merklinde, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castrop-Rauxel Fountain At Marketplace
Castrop-Rauxel (), often simply referred to as Castrop by locals, is a former coal mining city in the eastern part of the Ruhr Area in Germany. Geography Castrop-Rauxel is located in Germany between Dortmund to the southeast, Bochum to the southwest, Herne to the west, Recklinghausen to the northwest, Datteln to the north and Waltrop to the northeast. Urban area The city covers an area of . The Halde Schwerin (slag heap in the Schwerin district) is marked as the point of highest elevation at above sea level. The lowest point is located on Pöppinghauser Straße (Poppinghausen Street), besides house number 264, with an elevation of above sea level. The city is divided into 15 districts, from north to south and within one line from west (southwest) to east (northeast): * Henrichenburg (Becklem) * Pöppinghausen, Habinghorst, Ickern * Bladenhorst, Rauxel, Deininghausen * Behringhausen, Castrop, Dingen * Obercastrop, Schwerin * Bövinghausen, Merklinde, Frohlinde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castrop-Rauxel Town Hall
Castrop-Rauxel (), often simply referred to as Castrop by locals, is a former coal mining city in the eastern part of the Ruhr Area in Germany. Geography Castrop-Rauxel is located in Germany between Dortmund to the southeast, Bochum to the southwest, Herne to the west, Recklinghausen to the northwest, Datteln to the north and Waltrop to the northeast. Urban area The city covers an area of . The Halde Schwerin (slag heap in the Schwerin district) is marked as the point of highest elevation at above sea level. The lowest point is located on Pöppinghauser Straße (Poppinghausen Street), besides house number 264, with an elevation of above sea level. The city is divided into 15 districts, from north to south and within one line from west (southwest) to east (northeast): * Henrichenburg (Becklem) * Pöppinghausen, Habinghorst, Ickern * Bladenhorst, Rauxel, Deininghausen * Behringhausen, Castrop, Dingen * Obercastrop, Schwerin * Bövinghausen, Merklinde, Frohlinde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schloss Bladenhorst
Bladenhorst Castle (german: Schloss Bladenhorst) is a moated castle in the suburbs of the city of Castrop-Rauxel. History The castle was first recorded in 1266 as the residence of the lords of Blarnhurst lived there. At the beginning of the 14th century it became the possession of the family of Düngelen. In 1338, Rötger Düngelen made the castle available to the Duchy of Cleves to use in the event of war. Through marriage, in 1496 the castle passed to Philip of Viermünden. From 1624 to 1881 it was inherited by the Westphalian noble family of von Romberg. The structure originally consisted of four wings. The gatehouse is the oldest part of the building, the chapel dates from 1332. The castle as it stands is in the style of the Renaissance - coming from its rebuilding between 1530 and 1584. In 1926 the castle became the possession of the ''Klöckner-Werke''. Since the 16th of February 2006 the Bank "Sparkasse Vest" became the owner of the castle, having administered it for thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Thomas Mulvany
William Thomas Mulvany (11 March 1806 in Dublin, Ireland – 30 October 1885 in Düsseldorf, Germany) was an Irish entrepreneur in Germany. Life Mulvany was one of seven children of Catholic parents in Dublin: his father was the painter Thomas James Mulvany. He converted to the Anglican Communion as Catholics were barred from all but the very lowest grades of the civil service. He joined the Ordnance Survey in 1826 and ten years later moved to the Office of Public Works. In 1832, he married Alicia Winslow, the daughter of a wealthy landowner from Fermanagh. He had five children with her. From 1855 until his death, Mulvany lived in Düsseldorf. In 1875, he built the "Mulvany Villa" in Herne, but it's not known whether he ever lived there. He died in 1885 and was buried in Düsseldorf. The city of Gelsenkirchen made him an honorary citizen in 1880. In Herne, a street near the former Shamrock coal mine was named after him. Also Castrop-Rauxel, Recklinghausen and Düsseldorf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dortmund
Dortmund (; Westphalian nds, Düörpm ; la, Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the eighth-largest city of Germany, with a population of 588,250 inhabitants as of 2021. It is the largest city (by area and population) of the Ruhr, Germany's largest urban area with some 5.1 million inhabitants, as well as the largest city of Westphalia. On the Emscher and Ruhr rivers (tributaries of the Rhine), it lies in the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region and is considered the administrative, commercial, and cultural center of the eastern Ruhr. Dortmund is the second-largest city in the Low German dialect area after Hamburg. Founded around 882, Wikimedia Commons: First documentary reference to Dortmund-Bövinghausen from 882, contribution-list of the Werden Abbey (near Essen), North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Dortmund became an Imperial Free City. Throughout the 13th to 14th centuries, it was the "chief city" of the Rhine, Westph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recklinghausen (district)
Recklinghausen () is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the centre of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is surrounded by the neighbouring districts of Borken, Coesfeld, Unna, Gelsenkirchen, Bottrop, and Wesel. The district administration is located in the city of the same name. Apart from the Region Hannover, Kreis Recklinghausen is the largest non-city district in Germany by population. History During medieval times, the area surrounding present-day Recklinghausen was known as ''Vest'' Recklinghausen, a territory which belonged to the Electorate of Cologne. From 1446 to 1576, this area was leased to the lordship of Gemen (now a part of the city Borken) and Schaumburg-Lippe. In 1811, the territory was added to the Grand Duchy of Berg, and in 1815 it became part of the Prussian Province of Westphalia. The district was created in 1816. After several changes it obtained its present borders with the last reorganizations of 1975–76. It is also one of the oldest districts located in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oil Campaign Of World War II (Targets)
Allied bombing of the oil campaign targets of World War II included attacks on Nazi Germany oil refineries, synthetic oil plants, storage depots, and other chemical works. Natural oil was available in Northwestern Germany at Nienhagen (55%—300,000 tons per year), Rietberg (20%—300,000), and Heide (300,000) and refineries were mainly at Hamburg and Hannover. Refineries in France, Holland, and Italy (54)—mainly coastal plants for ocean-shipped crude—were within Allied bombing range and generally unused by Germany :Cover letter: :"Plan": :*"Appendix A": _____ :*"Appendix B": _____ :… :*"Appendix G": _____ :*"Supplement": _____ ::*"Part 1": _____ :… ::*"Part 10": _____ (Italian refining ceased in August 1943). Even before the war, Germany was dependent on foreign sources for an adequate supply of oil. The annexations of Austria and the Sudetenland (and the breakup of Czechoslovakia); the " campaigns in Norway, Holland, Belgium, and France…and imports f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castrop
Castrop, since 1 April 1926, is part of Castrop-Rauxel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The name comes from ''trop/torp'' for village (German ''Dorf'') and ''chasto/kast'' for shed. The oldest mention is from 834 as ''Villa Castrop''. During the Saxon Wars, Charlemagne Charlemagne ( , ) or Charles the Great ( la, Carolus Magnus; german: Karl der Große; 2 April 747 – 28 January 814), a member of the Carolingian dynasty, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and the first E ... used the old Roman streets. For supply ''Reichshöfe'' (singular '' Reichshof'') were built. Near to these Reichshöfe, settlements often grew. The Reichshof Castrop was given to the von Bordelius in 1611. External links * http://www.castrop-rauxel.de/stadt/st-info/imblick.html (German) Towns in North Rhine-Westphalia {{Recklinghausen-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herne, Germany
Herne () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the Ruhr area directly between the cities of Bochum and Gelsenkirchen. History Like most other cities in the region, Herne (ancient Haranni) was a tiny village until the 19th century. When the mining of coal (and possibly ore) and the production of coke (the fuel processed from the harvested coal) and steel began, the villages of the Ruhr area slowly grew into towns and cities because of the influx of people, mostly from the East (Germany as well as East-Prussia, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Poland and beyond, even Italy and Spain), looking for, and finding, work. Herne is located on the direct axis between Bochum to the South and Recklinghausen to the North, with Münster yet further North; Gelsenkirchen lies to the West, and Castrop-Rauxel and Dortmund to the East. The physical border between Herne and Recklinghausen in fact is, and has been for a long time, the bridge at the Bochumer Strasse across t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recklinghausen
Recklinghausen (; Westphalian: ''Riäkelhusen'') is the northernmost city in the Ruhr-Area and the capital of the Recklinghausen district. It borders the rural Münsterland and is characterized by large fields and farms in the north and industry in the south. Recklinghausen is the 60th-largest city in Germany and the 22nd-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia. History First mentioned in 1017 as ''Ricoldinchuson'', in 1150 the city was the center of the surrounding Vest Recklinghausen. In 1236, Recklinghausen received town privileges. There is record of Jews in the city as early as 1305. As part of the County of Vest, ownership of Recklinghausen changed several times in the 15th and 16th century, and in 1576, the entire county was pawned to the Elector of Cologne. In 1582–83, again in 1586, and again in 1587, the city was plundered by partisan armies during the Cologne War, a feud over religious parity in Electorate of Cologne and electoral influence in the Holy Roman Em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bochum
Bochum ( , also , ; wep, Baukem) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. With a population of 364,920 (2016), is the sixth largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg) of the most populous German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the 16th largest city of Germany. On the Ruhr Heights (''Ruhrhöhen'') hill chain, between the rivers Ruhr to the south and Emscher to the north (tributaries of the Rhine), it is the second largest city of Westphalia after Dortmund, and the fourth largest city of the Ruhr after Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg. It lies at the centre of the Ruhr, Germany's largest urban area, in the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region, and belongs to the region of Arnsberg. Bochum is the sixth largest and one of the southernmost cities in the Low German dialect area. There are nine institutions of higher education in the city, most notably the Ruhr University Bochum (''Ruhr-Universität Bochum''), one of the ten largest universities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
