Hattingen

Hattingen is the second biggest city of the Ennepe-Ruhr district in North Rhine Westphalia. It is positioned in the southern part of the Ruhr location. Hattingen is first documented in 990 as Reichshof Hatneggen. Its place among the Bergisches Land with its steel merchandise in the south and the Hellweg region inside the north with its fabric goods favored the exchange. The attachment contract concluded in 1396 with Count Dietrich von der Mark is now taken into consideration to be Hadtens metropolis. In 1554 Hattingen become recognized as Hanseatic. As Ruhrgebietsstadt in the nineteenth and 20th centuries, coal mining changed into very important.

There had been several coal mines in Hattingen. As early as 1787, the Rauendahl railway line, a rail line from Rauendahl close to Hattingen to the Ruhr, was placed into operation. It become the arena's first coal shipping railway. For extra than one hundred years, the Henrichshutte changed into essential enterprise in Hattingen briefly 10,000 personnel, the enterprise contributed with the status quo of workers' housing Huttenau, Musendrei, amongst others additionally considerably to the development of modern day Hattinger district Welper.