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Timeline Of Dortmund
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Dortmund, Germany. Prior to 19th century * 1005 – Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor holds an "ecclesiastical council" in Dortmund. * 1016 – Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor holds an "Imperial diet" in Dortmund. * 1215 – consecrated. * 1220 – Dortmund becomes an imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire. * 1240 – in use (approximate date). * 1253 – Dortmund joins the . * 1267 – St. Mary's Church first mentioned. * 1270 – St. Reinold's Church built. * 1293 – Brewing right granted. * 1322 – St. Peter's Church, Dortmund (church) construction begins. * 1332 – City rights confirmed per "Privilegium Ludovicum." * 1387/8 – Dortmund besieged by forces of Friedrich III. von Saarwerden, Archbishop of Cologne. * 1388 – Dortmunder Bürgerschützenverein (militia) formed. * 1400 – Vehmic court established (approximate date). * 1454 – Tower built on St. Reinold's Church. * 1521 – "" altarpiece installed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dortmund Braun-Hogenberg
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, Westphalia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dortmund–Soest Railway
The Dortmund–Soest railway is a line in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It runs from Dortmund Hauptbahnhof through the southern Dortmund district of Holzwickede to Unna and from there through the Hellweg Börde parallel to the Haarstrang ridge on the southern edge of the Westphalian Lowland via Werl to Soest (Germany) station, Soest. As the line was opened in 1855, it is one of the List of the first German railways to 1870, oldest railways in Germany. This electrified route is entirely double track and is classified as a main line. It is served for its full length by the Regionalbahn RB 59 ''Hellwegbahn'' service of the Hellweg Network. History After an initial proposal to build a railway from Dortmund to Soest was approved in 1850, on 3 June 1852, the Prussian king, Frederick William IV of Prussia, Frederick William IV issued a cabinet order authorising the construction of the line from Dortmund-Hörde to Soest. Construction began on 15 September 1853 in W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nordmarkt (Dortmund)
Nordmarkt is a borough in the Stadtbezirk ("City District") Innenstadt-Nord (Northern city center) in Dortmund, Germany. It is named after a large square in the northern city center. Being a working class quarter, this part of the city was sometimes scene of violent clashes between Nazis and their left-wing opponents during the final stage of the Weimar Republic. On October 16, 1932 two people died and 14 people were hurt during the ''Schlacht am Nordmarkt'' ("Battle at the Nordmarkt"). From 1933 to 1945 the square bore the name of Horst Wessel. Population Today Nordmarkt with a population of 28,245 living in only 3,25 square kilometers is the most populous and dense borough of Dortmund which means over 8,000 people living in a square kilometer ; it can be seen from architecture which is mostly high and closed. 75% of the population are immigrants and their children. See also * Münsterstraße (street in Dortmund): street in this borough References {{coord, 51.5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borussia Dortmund
Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e. V. Dortmund, commonly known as Borussia Dortmund (), BVB (), or simply Dortmund (), is a German professional sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is best known for its men's professional football team, which plays in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German football league system. The club have won eight league championships, five DFB-Pokals, one UEFA Champions League, one Intercontinental Cup, and one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. Founded in 1909 by eighteen football players from Dortmund, the football team is part of a large membership-based sports club with more than 145,000 members, making Borussia Dortmund the second largest sports club by membership in Germany. The club has active departments in other sports, namely in women's handball. Since 1974, Dortmund have played their home games at Westfalenstadion; the stadium is the largest in Germany, and Dortmund has the highest average attendance of any association football c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theater Dortmund
Theater Dortmund is a theatrical organization that produces operas, musicals, ballets, plays, and concerts in Dortmund, Germany. It was founded as the Stadttheater Dortmund in 1904. Supported by the German Government, the organization owns and operates several performance spaces. In 2010 the Ruhr district was a European Capital of Culture, Theater Dortmund is a partner of the related program ''RUHR.2010'' in the fields ''Music'' and ''Theater and Dance''.Dortmund at RUHR2010, including ''Musik'' and ''Theater und Tanz'' (in German) Stadttheater Dortmund [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Synagogue (Dortmund)
The Old Synagogue () was the largest synagogue and cultural center of the Jewish community in Dortmund, Germany. The synagogue was opened in 1900. With a capacity of 1,300 seats it was one of the largest Jewish houses of worship in Germany. After the Nazi Party gained power in 1933, the local government forced the Jewish community to sell the property and decided to demolish the synagogue. The proceeds from the sale were seized by the Nazi regime. Demolition works began a few weeks before the Kristallnacht () or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom(s) (german: Novemberpogrome, ), was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung, (SA) paramilitary and Schutzstaffel, (SS) paramilitary forces along ... and were finished in December 1938. In 1958–1965 the new Opernhaus Dortmund was built on the site where the synagogue once stood. Since 1998 the forecourt is officially known as ''Platz der Alten Synagoge'' ("Place of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altes Stadthaus, Dortmund
in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, is an office block which was built in 1899, and was designed by "master builder" Friedrich Kullrich (a German architect, urban planner and construction officer from Berlin). It was built in the Renaissance Revival architecture (Neo-Renaissance) style. After the office block was severely damaged in World War II, it was rebuilt in a simplified form. At the top of the gable is an eagle emblem, representing the city of Dortmund. The façades are made of Old or New Red Sandstone The New Red Sandstone, chiefly in British geology, is composed of beds of red sandstone and associated rocks laid down throughout the Permian (300 million years ago) to the end of the Triassic (about 200 million years ago), that unde ... and the lateral parts have plastered surfaces. Kullrich said that the was in the shape of . The is a short distance from , which houses the on the south. The was restored shortly after the was built, under th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dortmund Port
Construction on Dortmund's port which terminates the Dortmund-Ems Canal connecting Dortmund to the North Sea started in 1895. It was opened 1899 by Wilhelm II of Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm. At the beginning of the 20th century it was mainly used for the import and export of wheat, coal and iron ore, ore. The port was expanded in the 1920s and 1930s by adding new dock (maritime), docks as well as on the administrative infrastructure (''Dortmunder Hafenamt''). Today Dortmund Port is the biggest European canal port with 10 docks and a pier length of 11 km. Gaining its greatest importance after World War II, WW II, in 1972 6.2 million tonnes of good were shipped over the port. But even the completion of the container port in 1987 could not stop the gradual decline of the port resulting from the extinction of the coal and steel industries in Dortmund. 2.96 million tons of freight were shipped over the Dortmund Port in 2007, an increase of 7.1 percent compared to the previous year. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dortmund–Ems Canal
The Dortmund–Ems Canal is a long canal in Germany between the inland port of the city of Dortmund () and the seaport of Emden. The artificial southern part of the canal ends after at Herbrum lock near Meppen. The route then takes the river Ems for to Oldersum lock. From there, the canal continues along a second artificial segment of . This latter section was built because inland ships at the time of the construction of the canal were not built for the open sea, which they would have faced at the Dollart and the entry to the sea port of Emden. It is connected to the Ems-Jade Canal from Emden to Wilhelmshaven. History The canal was opened in to reduce demand on the railway network, which could not cope with the transport of products from the Ruhr area. Also, the canal was supposed to make coal from the Ruhr area more competitive compared to imported English coal. Furthermore, the steel industry in the eastern Ruhr area needed to import ore from abroad. The canal was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dortmund Philharmonic
The Dortmunder Philharmoniker (Dortmund Philharmonic) are a German symphony orchestra based in Dortmund. The orchestra of the Theater Dortmund performs opera in the Opernhaus Dortmund and concert in the Konzerthaus Dortmund. The orchestra was founded in 1887 and has been shaped by conductors such as Wilhelm Schüchter, Marek Janowski, Moshe Atzmon and Jac van Steen. History The ''Dortmunder Philharmoniker'' were founded as ''Orchesterverein'' in 1887. They played at different locations until the Stadttheater was opened in 1904. Since then they played also opera. The names of orchestra changed with organisational and functional changes, ''Hüttner Kapelle'', ''Städtisches Orchester'' (Orchestra of the City), ''Philharmonisches Orchester der Stadt Dortmund'', ''Philharmonisches Orchester Dortmund'', now ''Dortmunder Philharmoniker''. The concert venue after World War II was the Kleine Westfalenhalle. In 1966 they opened the new opera house Opernhaus Dortmund with a performance o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Für Kunst Und Kulturgeschichte
The Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte or MKK (''Museum of Art and Cultural History'') is a municipal museum in Dortmund, Germany. It is currently located in an Art Deco building which was formerly the Dortmund Savings Bank. The collection includes paintings, sculptures, furniture and applied art, illustrating the cultural history of Dortmund from early times to the 20th century. There are regular temporary exhibitions of art and culture, as well as a permanent exhibition on the history of surveying, with rare geodetic instruments.Das Museum History It was founded in 1883 as a collection of historical and artistic objects. It changed location several times in the early years, and came to include |
Ernst Heinrich Lindemann
Ernst Heinrich Lindemann (25 January 1833– 8 May 1900) was German politician and mayor of Essen, Dortmund and Düsseldorf. His grandson ''Kapitän zur See'' Ernst Lindemann was the commander of the battleship ''Bismarck''. Lindemann was the son of the Theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing th ... Heinrich Lindemann (1805–1861) who was the pastor of Kirchlegern since 1832. Lindemann studied law at the universities in Bonn, Heidelberg and Berlin from 1851 to 1854. He was elected mayor of Essen in December 1858. He held this office nine years from 1859 to 1868. He resigned from office and worked as a bank director of the ''Westdeutschen Versicherungs-Aktienbank'' and then as general director of the ''Bochumer Verein für Bergbau und Gußstahlfabrikation (BVG)'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
