Bottrop

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bottrop


Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region	Münster
District	urban district
Population	119,649 source (2005)
Area	100.7 km²
Population density	1,188 /km²
Elevation	60 m
Coordinates	51°31′ N 6°55′ E
Postal code	46236–46244
Area code	02041, 02045
Licence plate code	BOT
Mayor	Peter Noetzel (SPD)
Website	bottrop.de

Bottrop is a city in west central Germany, on the Rhine-Herne Canal, in North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen). Located in the Ruhr industrial area, Bottrop adjoins Essen, Oberhausen, Gladbeck and Dorsten. The city had been a coal-mining and rail center and contains factories producing coal-tar derivatives, chemicals, textiles, and machinery. The population is currently 119,655. Bottrop grew as a mining center beginning in the 1860s and was chartered as a city in 1921. In 1975 it unified with the neighbour communities of Gladbeck and Kirchhellen, but Gladbeck left it in 1976, leading to Kirchhellen becoming a district of Bottrop as Bottrop-Kirchhellen.

1 Religions
2 Popular persons from Bottrop
3 Kirchhellen
4 Notable Locations
5 Twinning
6 Photos of Bottrop
7 External links

[edit] Religions

Catholic: ca. 50%, Protestant (Lutheran): about 20%, Muslim: about 5%, Atheist/Agnostic: about 20%. There are 19 Catholic churches and 8 Lutheran churches.

[edit] Popular persons from Bottrop

Josef Albers
August Everding
Theo Jörgensmann
Ludger Stratmann
Ulla Kock am Brink

[edit] Kirchhellen

From 1919 until 1976 Kirchhellen was its own town. From 1976 until 1978 it was a part of "GlaBotKi"(Gladbeck, Bottrop, Kirchhellen). 1978 Kirchhellen would a part of Bottrop. The Kirchhellner were very angry and today they aren´t happy about it yet.

Most of Kirchhellner are catholic (ca. 65%) - there are three churches their will be own on first of January in 2007. There is one Lutheran church (ca. 20% of the population is Lutheran and ca. 5% are Muslims). The rest is mostly without a religion.

[edit] Notable Locations

Alpincenter - Indoor ski slope
Tetraeder - a 60 m high Tetrahedron, placed on a 90 m slag heap
Movie Park Germany - theme park (in Bottrop-Kirchhellen)
Schloss Beck - castle turned into an amusement park (in Bottrop-Kirchhellen)

[edit] Twinning

Bottrop is twinned with:

Tourcoing, France since 1967
Blackpool, United Kingdom
Berlin-Mitte, Germanysince 1983 First with Berlin-Wedding, which fusioned with Berlin-Tiergarten and Berlin-Mitte
Vezprém, Hungary since 1987
20px|Sachsen-Anhalt Merseburg, Germany since 1989

[edit] Photos of Bottrop

Tetraeder

Steps Leading to Tetraeder

Factory Near Alpin Center

[edit] External links

Official city website

	Urban districts and Districts in the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW)
Urban districts	Aachen \| Bergisch Gladbach \| Bielefeld \| Bochum \| Bonn \| Bottrop \| Dortmund \| Duisburg \| Düsseldorf \| Essen \| Gelsenkirchen \| Hagen \| Hamm \| Herne \| Köln (Cologne) \| Krefeld \| Leverkusen \| Mönchengladbach \| Mülheim \| Münster \| Oberhausen \| Remscheid \| Solingen \| Wuppertal
Districts	Aachen \| Borken \| Kleve (Cleves) \| Coesfeld \| Düren \| Ennepe-Ruhr \| Euskirchen \| Gütersloh \| Heinsberg \| Herford \| Hochsauerland \| Höxter \| Lippe \| Märkischer Kreis \| Mettmann \| Minden-Lübbecke \| Oberbergischer Kreis \| Olpe \| Paderborn \| Recklinghausen \| Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis \| Rhein-Erft-Kreis \| Rhein-Kreis Neuss \| Rhein-Sieg-Kreis \| Siegen-Wittgenstein \| Soest \| Steinfurt \| Unna \| Viersen \| Warendorf \| Wesel