Witten-Stockum is a borough of the City of

Witten Witten () is a city with almost 100,000 inhabitants in the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis (district) in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Witten is situated in the Ruhr valley, in the southern Ruhr area. Bordering municipalities * Bochum * Dortmu ...

. It has about 6.300 inhabitants (2003).

History

Stockum was first mentioned in 882 as ''villa stochem''. ''Villa stochem'' was a little castle that was owned by a knight who called himself "op der Heyde". During the so-called Dortmunder Fehde in 1388/89, Stochem was burned down by soldiers from the Archbishop of Cologne, who fought a war against

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, that was just a few kilometres north of the village. In 1423/24 it was burned down for the second time - this time by troops of the

Margrave Margrave was originally the medieval title for the military commander assigned to maintain the defence of one of the border provinces of the Holy Roman Empire or of a kingdom. That position became hereditary in certain feudal families in the Emp ...

of the County Mark who fought a war against his own brother. In 1701 Stockum became a part of

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, 1752 the first coal mine was built - and the era of mining began. This era ended in 1904. In 1929 Stockum became a borough of Witten. It has a bus connection to central Witten and to the station of Dortmund-Oespel by bus line 371. On weekdays Stockum is also served by bus line 373 to Witten-Annen. At the weekend, the night bus line NE17 to Bochum-Langendreer via central Witten stops here. Witten Former municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia {{EnnepeRuhrKreis-geo-stub