Borsigplatz is a
borough
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(officially a statistical district) in the urban district ("Stadtbezirk") Innenstadt-Nord in
Dortmund
Dortmund (; ; ) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the List of cities in Germany by population, ninth-largest city in Germany. With a population of 614,495 inhabitants, it is the largest city ...
,
Germany
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. It lies in the northern part of the city center, just outside the former city wall. It has a population of 11,141 (December 2012).
The eponymous square, which gives the borough its name, is famous for being the birthplace of
football
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club
Borussia Dortmund
Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e. V. Dortmund, often known simply as Borussia Dortmund () or by its initialism BVB (), or just Dortmund by International fans, is a German professional sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is ...
. The club was founded in 1909 by members of a catholic youth group in a bar situated right at the square.
As the rest of Dortmund's northern city center, the borough has suffered from the fall of the coal and steel industry. The unemployment rate is high, since this part of the city was traditionally inhabited by industrial workers. 67.9 percent of the inhabitants have a
migration background
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, which is the second highest number of the 62 statistical districts in Dortmund (after
Nordmarkt).
References
Squares in Dortmund
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