Eving is a ''Stadtteil'' (''

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'') in the eponymous '' Stadtbezirk'' ("city borough") in the north of the city of Dortmund,

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. It was incorporated into Dortmund in 1914. With a population of about 20,000 Eving is one of the most populated parts of Dortmund. The population of the '' Stadtbezirk'', which also includes Brechten, Holthausen, Lindenhorst and Kemminghausen, is about 36,000. Eving's unemployment rate is high and the average income is low compared to the city's average, which makes it one of Dortmund's

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areas. The ''Stadtteil'' is famous for its history of coal mining and the football club TuS Eving-Lindenhorst, for whom

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and

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have played during their childhood and youth. The Zeche Minister Stein was the last active coal mine in Dortmund. It was in use until 1987.

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