Günnigfeld is a district of
Bochum
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, a city in the
Ruhr area
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of
North Rhine-Westphalia
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, western
Germany
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. Günnigfeld belongs to the
Stadtbezirk (district of a town) of
Wattenscheid, Germany, which was a town until 1974 and is now part of Bochum. Günnigfeld is the northernmost part of Wattenscheid.
The population used to speak
Westphalian, but now
High German
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is the norm.
It used to be the site of the regional association of the
National Democratic Party of Germany
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, a party of the extreme right and formerly the site of the national headquarters of the NPD's youth organization.
The football team (a fusion between DJK Westfalia and Union 1911) of Günnigfeld, the VfB Günnigfeld, plays in the Bezirksliga.
Willi Schulz,
Niko Bungert and
Mike Terranova started their career in Günnigfeld.
Boroughs of Bochum
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