Hamm

Hamm is a metropolis in North Rhine Westphalia. The Westphalian metropolis is placed within the northwest of the administrative district of Arnsberg at the northeast edge of the Ruhr and the Rhine Ruhr metropolitan region. Hamm is a traditional railroad town, as an important hub of numerous railways. The shunting and freight depot, which today is essentially closed, became once the largest in Europe. Hamm became taken into consideration freight yard of the Ruhr location.

The town is precise through the state planning as a middle center. After numerous territorial reforms in 1975, Hamm reached its present length and with greater than 100,000 population the status of a huge metropolis. Hamm has about 100 and 80,000 inhabitants and finished on December 31, 2016, with approximately 179,570 inhabitants 43rd place at the list of the biggest cities within the Federal Republic of Germany. Hamm is a deliberate city, based by using Count Adolf I of the Mark on Ash Wednesday in 1226 and provided with town rights. The founding of Hamm marks the start of a number of founding cities of this family of counts to consolidate the county of Mark each militarily and economically and to create a unified power place.