Witten

Witten is a university city inside the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the house of the Witten/Herdecke University, the primary personal university in Germany. Witten changed into first stated in historic sources in 1214, however the borough Herbede which was included into the city in 1975 dates back to 851. The town became a mining metropolis from 1578. In 1946, it was blanketed in North Rhine-Westphalia on its established order. In 1975 Witten become blanketed in the administrative district Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis and it's far now its biggest metropolis.

1975 changed into also the yr Witten changed into first counted to have more than one hundred,000 population, the brink to be taken into consideration a huge metropolis in Germany. In the overdue nineteenth century Witten become known for the Roburit dynamite. This dynamite became once used by coal mines around the sector. In 1906 an explosion befell, ensuing within the deaths of 41 humans. The local council of Witten has 64 seats. In the nearby elections of 2004 the German Social Democratic Party, SPD, won 24 seats and shape the biggest birthday party represented at the council. It is followed by using the Christian Democratic Party, CDU with 18 and the Greens with 7 seats.