Boy (Bottrop)

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boy
City of Bottrop
Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 19 ″  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 4 ″  E
Height : approx. 50 m
Area : 4.5 km²
Residents : 9000
Population density : 2,000 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 46240
Area code : 02041
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Location of Boy in Bottrop

Boy is the easternmost of 17 districts of the independent city of Bottrop .

The name Boy is based on the Boye .

Residents

Around 9,000 people live in an area of ​​four and a half square kilometers.

location

Within Bottrop, Boy borders on the districts of Batenbrock , Eigen and Welheim . The Boye delimits the district in the north and east to Gladbeck .

history

In 1936 Hugo Stinnes GmbH built a hydrogenation plant for the production of synthetic gasoline on the site of the closed coal mine United Welheim between Boy and Welheim . In 1937 it went into operation as a Ruhr oil plant . During the Second World War , the Ruhr oil plant was the main target of the American and British bombing raids on Bottrop. Of the approximately 30,000 bombs dropped by the US Air Force and the Royal Air Force, about 3,000 hit the target (the plant) and about 27,000 hit the surrounding settlements in Boy and Wehleim. From 1952 the Ruhröl-Werk supplied gasoline, diesel oil and heating oil. In 1979, Hüls AG took over the Ruhröl plant.

Infrastructure

Bottrop-Boy stop

The district has its own marketplace .

The Bottrop-Boy stop in the district is served by local rail passenger transport. This is on the Oberhausen-Osterfeld-Hamm railway line and is approached by the RB 44 Der Dorstener and the S 9 . The local rail transport is operated by DB Regio and NordWestBahn . Local road passenger transport is carried out in Boy Busse of Vestische Straßenbahnen GmbH .

Others

The Boy Volunteer Fire Brigade was founded in 1904. Other associations are the Bürgererschützenverein Bottrop Boy (BSV) and the Kolping Family, the Christian Association of Young People (CVJM) and a carnival society.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. Boy . Archived from the original on June 14, 2012. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
  2. ^ Wilfried Krix: Coal, Oil and Chemistry. The former “Hülsgelände” in Bottrop-Boy through the ages (= history lesson, vol. 2). Bottrop City Archives, Bottrop 2003.
  3. 75 years ago: The Ruhröl-Werk in der Boy is founded. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  4. Two million t refining capacity in the brazier . In: Die Zeit of April 10, 1952.
  5. Oliver Neuhoff: Structural change in Bottrop: Welheim, Tetraeder, Hüls . In: Mitteilungen der Geographische Gesellschaft für das Ruhrgebiet (MGGR), year 2003, issue 26, pp. 23–38, here p. 33.
  6. Timetable information from Deutsche Bahn