Witten

For other uses, see Witten (disambiguation).

Castle Haus Witten in Witten, seen from the "Ruhrstrasse"

Witten is a university town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany in the southern Ruhr area in the Ruhr valley. It was first mentioned in historic sources in 1214, however the borough Herbede (which was incorporated into the city in 1975) even dates back to 851. The city was a mining town from 1578 and is now home of Witten/Herdecke University, an innovative private university. In 1975 Witten was included in the administrative district "Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis" and it is now its biggest city.

1975 was also the year Witten was first counted to have more than 100,000 inhabitants, the threshold to be considered a large city ("Großstadt") in Germany.

Twinning

• - Beauvais (Frankreich), since 1975
• - London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, (United Kingdom), since 1979
• - Mallnitz (Carinthia, Austria), since 1979
• - district Lev Hasharon (Israel), since 1979
• - Wolfen (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany), since 1990
• - Kursk (Russia), since 1990
• - Tczew (Poland), since 1990

Boroughs

Witten is divided into 8 boroughs and every of these boroughs is divided into city-districts. Every district has it own district-number.

Witten-Mitte: 11 Innenstadt 12 Oberdorf-Helenenberg 13 Industriegebiet-West 14 Krone 15 Crengeldanz 16 Hauptfriedhof 17 Stadion 18 Industriegebiet-Nord 19 Hohenstein Dueren: 21 Dueren-Nord 22 Dueren-Sued Stockum: 31 Stockum-Mitte 32 Dorney 33 Stockumer Bruch 34 Wilhelmshoehe

Annen: 41 Tiefendorf 42 Wullen 43 Annen-Mitte-Nord 44 Annen-Mitte-Sued 45 Kohlensiepen 46 Wartenberg 47 Gedern Ruedinghausen: 51 Industriegebiet-Ost 52 Ruedinghausen-Mitte 53 Buchenholz 54 Schnee Bommern: 61 Steinhausen 62 Bommerbank 63 Bommerfeld 64 Wettberg 65 Buschey 66 Bommeregge

Heven: 71 Papenholz 72 Hellweg 73 Wannen 74 Heven-Dorf 75 Lake Herbede: 81 Herbede-Ort 82 Vormholz 83 Bommerholz-Muttental 84 Durchholz 85 Buchholz-Kaempen

The Ruhr near Witten