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Dortmund - Germany
Dortmund is a circle free town in the eastern Ruhr district. It is the largest town as well as economy and trade center of Westphalia and belongs to the county Arnsberg in the federal state North Rhine-Westphalia of the Federal Republic of Germany. The town is a member of the landscape association Westphalia lip and of the regional association Ruhr. Depending on the exact counting date and source it is located in the sixth till eighth place of the largest German towns. Dortmund in moderation is the ninth largest circle free town of Germany area.
Story of Dortmund
Primary tracks of the settlement on today's Dortmund municipal area reach back to up to the Bronze Age. Dortmund was mentioned the first time as "Throtmanni" at 880 to 885. 990 finds themselves the first mention of the Dortmund market rights. In the 11th century became the legend the saint of the town to Reinoldus. A great empire meeting took place 1152 under emperor Friedrich Barbarossa in Dortmund. In the year 1293 the brewing right is awarded to the city of Dortmund.
The lager way as a trade route plays a special role in the ground plan of the Hanseatic town. Because of the Thirty Years' War Dortmund lost meaning very much. The population of Dortmund dropped to 4500 inhabitants up to the year 1793.
To 1803 this was belonging Dortmund opens to the Lower Rhine Westphalian empire circle, free city the town as an exclave then came to the principality Oranien-Nassau. Dortmund as a part of the French became Grand Duchy of mountain 1806 prefecture the Ruhr department. After the Prussian victory over Napoleon Dortmund 1815 finally fell to the Prussian province Westphalia. Here Dortmund 1817 seat of an administrative district became inside to become the county Arnsberg which 1875 left for Dortmund around a circle free town.
As of the middle of the 19th century the renewed advancement of Dortmund and the change started by the coal support and steel processing to an industrial town. Since the opening of the Cöln Minden railroad in the year 1847 Dortmund became an important traffic knot in the Ruhr district. The opening of the Dortmund-Ems channel and with that the port made further important contribution to the economic development in 1899.
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