Witten
- For other uses, see Witten (disambiguation).
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.
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