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Coat of arms of the city of Datteln
Dates
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Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′  N , 7 ° 21 ′  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Muenster
Circle : Recklinghausen
Height : 49 m above sea level NHN
Area : 66.1 km 2
Residents: 34,596 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 523 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 45711
Area code : 02363
License plate : RE, CAS, GLA
Community key : 05 5 62 008
LOCODE : DE DAT
City structure: 20 boroughs

City administration address : 		Genthiner Strasse 8
45711 Datteln
Website : www.datteln.de
Mayor : André Dora ( SPD )
Location of the city of Datteln in the Recklinghausen district
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The city of Datteln is located in the northern Ruhr area in the center of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and is a middle district town of the district of Recklinghausen in the administrative district of Münster . The Datteln Canal Cross , located in Datteln, is of international importance and is the world's largest junction of artificial waterways.

geography

location

Datteln is located southwest of the Wesel-Datteln Canal and the Lippe . To the northwest lies the Hohe Mark-Westmünsterland nature park with the Haard .

Neighboring communities

Datteln shares borders with the following cities: In the north it borders the Münsterland on the city of Olfen , in the northeast on Selm , in the east on Waltrop , in the south on Castrop-Rauxel and Recklinghausen and in the west on Oer-Erkenschwick and Haltern am See .

Together with Waltrop and Oer-Erkenschwick, Datteln unofficially forms the Ostvest region .

City structure

Map of the German Empire 1: 100,000 of today's Datteln area at the end of the 19th century;
Ahsen, Horneburg and Ostleven were only added in 1975

The present city dates is from the farming communities dates, Pelkum (Peluchem 890) Meckinghoven (curia Meckinghofan 1188), Hagem (Haginheim 1160), Sutum (Suethem 1188), Wentrup (Venninctorpe 1325), Hachhausen (1344 Hachhusin) Drybern (Driburi , 14th century), Klostern (Knostern 1541) grew together.

Today, Datteln does not have any official city districts according to the main statute, which enjoy independent rights, but is divided into 22 statistical districts, which are also known as city ​​districts and include sparsely populated farmers in addition to the heavily populated core city districts and the two independent villages Horneburg and Ahsen. According to the layout and the planning of new building areas, the city districts were reorganized on January 1, 2009. In mid-2013 they had the following population figures:

District no. district population
110 City center 5,705
120 Hachhausen 5,540
130 Beisenkamp 2,685
140 Hagem 4,513
150 Hötting 3,367
160 dumber 3,179
170 Meckinghoven 3,368
180 In the corner 659
190 Ahsen 1,088
200 Horneburg 1,590
210 Emscher-Lippe 795
220 Schwakenburg 777
230 Hagem farmers 200
240 Losheide farmers 91
250 Farmers Natrop 110
255 Natrop 394
260 Pelkum farmers 148
270 Peasantry monasteries 465
280 East Leven farmers 173
290 Bockum farmers 179
300 Farmers Hachhausen 139
310 Farmers Löringhof 19th
  Dates 35.184

Core urban area

The town hall from a bird's eye view

The city center is connected to Natrop to the north, Hötting to the northeast, Schwakenburg to the southeast, Beisenkamp to the south and Hachhausen to the (southwest to) west. Beisenkamp goes south in Emscher-Lippe and, to the west of it, Hachhausen in Hagem and this finally in Dümmer. Meckinghoven joins even further to the south-south-west. The districts mentioned form more or less the core town of Datteln with 30,323 inhabitants.

Somewhat out of the way, on the border with Oer-Erkenschwick , are the old village of Horneburg west of Mecklenburg and the settlement Im Winkel west-south-west of Hachhausen. After all, Ahsen is clearly out of the way, in the far north. All other statistical districts represent very sparsely populated farmers.

Curiosity

One part of the Provinzialstraße belongs to one side of Datteln, the other half is in the Waltrop city area. The stretch of road belonging to Datteln includes the houses on the northern side of the street. At the entrance to the town from Waltrop there are two place-name signs. The left one in the direction of travel points to Waltrop, the right one to Datteln.

history

Datteln was first mentioned in 1147 in a letter from Pope Eugene III. , in which the Pope of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Heribert in Deutz certified a number of property rights, including the church in Datteln ( in Datlem ecclesiam ). The letter is dated June 17, 1147.

Dates developed in the Middle Ages one of the largest parishes of Vests Recklinghausen . The nucleus of the city is the parish of St. Amandus. In this u. a. the later Bishop of Munster, Reinhard Lettmann .

Vest Recklinghausen and thus also Datteln were under the elector of Cologne until November 26, 1802, because with the Peace of Lüneviller the vest fell to Duke Ludwig Engelbert von Arenberg. As early as January 25, 1811, Napoleon gave the vest to the Grand Duchy of Berg by decree, making it part of the Arrondissement of Essen, although the constitution was no longer valid and there were many changes. Among other things, Datteln and Waltrop were merged into one mayor's office. Count Max von Boenen zu Löringhof was appointed mayor and the official office was opened in Datteln. After the Battle of Leipzig on November 11, 1813, Prussia took possession of the vest. In 1836 Leppelmann zu Waltrop became mayor and relocated the office to Waltrop. In 1857 the two offices were separated and Datteln got its own mayor.

From a church perspective, Vest Recklinghausen belonged to the Archdiocese of Cologne and was assigned to the Diocese of Münster in 1821. On August 5, 1864, Bishop Johann Georg arranged for the Vestes Recklinghausen to be divided into two deaneries, the Recklinghausen deanery and the Dorsten deanery, because the vest, especially for confirmations, caused particular difficulties for the bishop due to its large size. Datteln, however, still belonged to the Recklinghausen dean's office.

Over the centuries, around 100 independent farms developed from farms that were given as fiefs by landlords at this time . As a result, dates were very much influenced by agriculture , although handicrafts began to flourish; at that time, Datteln had the following handicraft businesses:

Finally, towards the end of the 19th century, the waterway network was expanded. On August 11, 1899, the Dortmund-Ems Canal was opened by Kaiser Wilhelm II . This happened in 1914 with the Datteln-Hamm Canal and the connection to the Rhine-Herne Canal . In 1930 the Wesel-Datteln Canal was also connected.

Around the same time, after the opening of the Emscher-Lippe colliery in 1906 , the population rose from around 3,500 (at the turn of the century) to around 20,000 (1920). This development resulted in the founding of the Krupp Beisenkamp settlement .

As part of the occupation of the Ruhr area , there was a scene in the Dattelner Lutherhaus, known as the Datteln Last Supper , when a French officer and the deputy mayor of the Datteln Office received the Last Supper together. This experience was one of the impulses that inspired the officer Etienne Bach to found the Christian Peace Service .

Typical colliery houses on the B 235

In 1922 the Ostvest vocational college was founded. In 1928 Datteln received permission from the Prussian State Ministry to use a coat of arms , which is still the city's coat of arms today.

On April 20, 1936, due to its size, its economic importance, the traffic situation and cultural and social institutions, Datteln was given the right to call itself " City of Datteln".

At the end of the Second World War , in particular , there was devastating destruction with many fatalities, mainly due to the bombing raids by the advancing Allies on March 7, 9 and 14, 1945. German troops also blew up all bridges ( scorched earth tactic ).

As early as 1946, a rest home for miners' children was opened under British occupation, which later became the Vestische Children's and Youth Clinic in Datteln . The children's clinic was founded under the direction of the pediatrician Prof. Dr. Heinrich Rodeck and with the support of the long-standing (1967–1992) mayor Horst Niggemeier , who also a. used his relationships with the NRW Minister of Health Hermann Heinemann (and his predecessors), expanded them and gained international recognition through their expertise in paediatrics. In 1974 a new building for the St. Vincenz Hospital was inaugurated in the city center.

With the establishment of the Ruhr-Zink company ( zinc electrolysis ) in 1968, dates gained economic strength. The Rheinzink company followed in 1971 and operates a zinc rolling mill . Ruhr-Zink closed its zinc works in December 2008.

As part of his efforts to make dates, which is characterized by mining and inland shipping, known, the then mayor Horst Niggemeier highlighted dates as the largest canal hub in Europe, initiated the Datteln Canal Festival in the early 1970s, and let pop singer Sven Olson sing the song Come on produce with to the Dattelner Kanal and distill a Westphalian grain called Dattelner Kanalwasser .

Mayor Niggemeier also initiated the town twinning with the English mining town of Cannock , Staffordshire, in Central England (near Birmingham) and, at the turn of 1990, the inner-German town twinning with Genthin in what later became the state of Saxony-Anhalt.

With the closure of the Emscher-Lippe colliery in 1972, Datteln's mining tradition came to an end for the time being. But it sprouted again in 1983 when the An der Haard 1 shaft was put into operation. It was shut down in 2001.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1975 Ahsen (today's districts Ahsen and Ostleven) and Horneburg were incorporated.

Outsourcing

On April 1, 1926, an area with a little less than ten square kilometers was assigned to the new municipality of Oer-Erkenschwick .

politics

City council

town hall

The city council of Datteln has 38 elected members.

  • SPD 16 seats
  • CDU 13 seats
  • Community of voters Die Grünen Datteln 4 seats
  • FDP 1 seat
  • Dattelner City Party (DSP) 1 seat
  • THE LEFT. 2 seats
  • Independent Citizens Party (UBP) 1 seat

Results of the local elections from 1975

The list only includes parties and constituencies that received at least 1.8 percent of the votes in the respective election.

year SPD CDU WG Greens left UBP FDP DSP
1975 54.5 39.9 5.6
11979 1 50.0 36.5 10.0 3.5
1984 53.1 33.0 11.4 2.5
1989 54.0 32.8 09.9 3.1
1994 51.7 30.9 08.9 2.7 5.8
1999 37.1 43.0 09.9 3.8 6.2
2004 44.1 34.2 07.8 5.7 8.1
2009 37.7 35.4 09.5 5.8 6.8 4.8
2014 41.5 35.2 09.7 4.2 3.5 3.2 1.8
1 1979: SPD: 50.03%, WG Greens: 9.97%

mayor

In the 2014 local elections, André Dora (SPD) replaced the long-time mayor Wolfgang Werner (non-party), who no longer ran for election.

Mayor since 1946

  • 1946 to 1952: Gerhard Schartenberg, SPD
  • 1952 to 1956: Josef Röhl, CDU
  • 1956 to 1961: Peter Heckmann , SPD
  • 1961 to 1962: Hugo Stehle, CDU
  • 1962 to 1967: Friedrich Schneider, SPD
  • 1967 to 1992: Horst Niggemeier , SPD
  • 03/1992 to 04/1992: Wolfgang Wellnitz, CDU (as 1st Deputy Mayor)
  • 05/1992 to 06/1996: Wolfgang Werner , SPD
  • 07/1996 to 09/1996: Walter Deckmann, CDU (1st Deputy Mayor)
  • 1996 to 1999: Rudolf Böhm, SPD
  • 1999 to 2014: Wolfgang Werner , independent
  • since 2014: André Dora, SPD

coat of arms

The city's coat of arms was taken over from the former rural community of Datteln, approved by the Prussian State Ministry on December 20, 1928. The silver ring is the seal of the Datteln resident Goswin called Vrydach de Datlen, with which he received a document from 1325 about the possession of the bishop . Amandus sealed the Beckerapener (today Horneburger Feld) House Hubbert as a witness. The black Kurkölnian cross on a silver background reminds of the rule by Kurköln .

Culture and sights

The parish church of St. Amandus is a listed church building, the origins of which go back to the 12th century.

Museums

Dorfschultenhof

The Hermann-Grochtmann Museum was located until 2016 in the listed Dorfschultenhof right next to the town hall. The Dorfschultenhof has been home to the VHS of the city of Datteln since 2017. Some of the exhibits can still be seen there.

Regular events

Social highlights are an annual festival: Dattelner May . The Canal Festival (since 1969) took place for the last time in 2017.

Every year on Ascension Day, the Datteln volunteer fire brigade's children's party and the day before an over-30 party in the courtyard of the Datteln fire and rescue station takes place.

The underground metal festival Mercenaries Metal Meeting has been taking place once a year since 2007 and is organized together with young people from Datteln.

A sporting highlight is the large riding and jumping tournament that takes place on the third weekend in August on the grounds of the Datteln Rural Riding and Driving Association. V. takes place.

In 2005 and 2006, the Haardman Triathlon, which migrated from Oer-Erkenschwick, took place in the harbor . In the absence of sponsors, this event was not continued in 2007.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Harbor bridge over the Dortmund-Ems Canal

From Datteln you can reach the federal highway 2 (A 2 / E 34 ) via the federal highway 235 . The Henrichenburg junction is just six kilometers from the city center in a south-westerly direction. In the opposite direction, federal highway 235 continues to Olfen. Datteln is connected to other neighboring towns via state roads.

The Hamm-Osterfelder Bahn has only been used for freight traffic on its Dattelner section since 1983 . Public transport takes place on the street, the operator of the bus lines is the Vestische Straßenbahnen GmbH in the transport association Rhein-Ruhr .

The Datteln Canal Cross is the largest canal junction in the world. The canal, port and lock systems in the Datteln area cover a total of 17 km in length. In this water transport hub, also known as the Dattelner Meer , four canals are brought together:

The new waterway construction office of Directorate West of the Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration is located on site ,

Two long-distance cycle routes run through Datteln , the Dortmund-Ems Canal Route and the Ruhr Area circuit .

Established businesses

Well-known companies based in Datteln: the Becker-Prünte chain factory, the Holzbau-Pieper carpentry, the titanium zinc manufacturer Rheinzink with a rolling mill, the dry mortar manufacturer and construction chemicals producer Deitermann, the Zabel construction company (based in Castrop-Rauxel since 2007), as well as the nationwide active Wirtz Druck GmbH , founded in 1889 , which published and printed the first Dattelner newspaper.

The Vestische Caritas Hospital Corporation has been awarded the St. Vincent Hospital Datteln and its Vestische Department of Pediatrics and other inpatient and outpatient facilities in the area. With 2,825 employees (2009), the GmbH is also a major employer in Datteln. Another major employer is the Datteln power plant , which generates 20 percent of German traction electricity. A new E.ON hard coal power plant with an output of 1100 MW has been under construction since 2007. A partial construction freeze was imposed on the power plant in September 2009. After completion, the previous power plant will be dismantled. The discounter Aldi- Nord is based in Datteln with one of its regional branches, including a large central warehouse.

Everts Ballons was founded in 1924 by Wilhelm Evert as a balloon printing company, began producing balls in 1954 and latex balloons in 1965. Everts was bought by C. Riethmüller GmbH in 1997 and was taken over by Amscan Inc, New York in 2011. Today Everts is Germany's only latex balloon production.

Technical relief organization Datteln

The technical train of the THW Datteln consists of two rescue groups and the specialist group on water hazards. In addition, a local hazard defense system (ÖGA) flood protection has been stationed there.

Personalities

Born in dates

Associated with dates

  • Robert Schmohl (1855–1944), architect, built the Beisenkamp estate in Datteln
  • Ernst Gomolla (* 1935), table tennis player, lives in Datteln
  • Reinhard Junge (* 1946), author of detective novels, wrote Das Ekel von Datteln in 1988
  • Hans-Peter Müller (* 1955) politician (SPD) and trade unionist, lives in Datteln
  • André Michael Toschke (1972–2011), physician and professor of biometrics with a focus on observational studies
  • Dennis Wolf (* 1978), bodybuilder, lives in Datteln

Bearer of the city badge dates

  • 1974: Pastor Emanuel Wethmar († February 17, 1998)
  • 1978: Heinrich Speeck († December 25, 1995)
  • 1983: Dr. med. Georg Toschke († December 21, 1988)
  • 1989: Walter Sauer († July 5, 1991)
  • 1993: Lieselotte Feldtmann († November 2011)
  • 1993: Sybille Hahne († October 6, 2012)
  • 2009: Gertrud Ritter
  • 2019: Pastor em. Hans Overkämping

Town twinning

Others

  • The mine hunting boat Datteln (M 1068) (→ Frankenthal class ) of the German Navy bears the name of the city.

literature

  • Anton Jansen: The community of dates . Roland, Datteln 1881.
  • Hermann Grochtmann: History of the parish of Datteln from the beginning to the present. Datteln, Ahsen, Horneburg (= series of publications on the history of the communities of Datteln, Oer-Erkenschwick, Ahsen and Flaesheim , vol. 1). Datteln undated [1951].

Web links

Commons : Dates  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: dates  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 .  ( Help on this )
  2. ↑ a b Stadtbezirke ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on datteln.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.datteln.de
  3. ↑ As of July 31, 2013, population figures by city district ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 48 kB) on datteln.de (offline) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.datteln.de
  4. ↑ Map of the statistical districts of Datteln ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 700 kB) (offline)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.datteln.de
  5. ^ Hermann Grochtmann: History of the parish of dates from the beginning to the present. Datteln, Ahsen, Horneburg . Datteln undated [1951], p. 15.
  6. ↑ Hildegard Krause: The document from 1147: The first written mention of Datteln . In: Datteln 1147−1997. Contributions to history . Datteln 1997, pp. 13-23.
  7. ↑ a b Source: Münster University and State Library The community of Datteln Jansen, Anton (pastor, 1827–1900) Datteln i. W., 1881 ( digital source )
  8. ↑ The bailiff was expelled, so his deputy was the de facto mayor. See Dattelner Last Supper (PDF) ( Memento of the original from 23 September 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kirchenkreis-re.de
  9. ↑ a b Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 225 .
  10. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 316 .
  11. ↑ Directories of the results of local elections for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (LDS NRW) from 1975 to 2009
  12. ↑ Elective profile of the State Office for Data Processing and Statistics NW ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.it.nrw.de
  13. ↑ Election results 1999  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 5.9 MB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / webshop.it.nrw.de  
  14. ↑ 2004 election results  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 7.0 MB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / webshop.it.nrw.de  
  15. ↑ Election results 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.5 MB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / webshop.it.nrw.de  
  16. ↑ Description of the coat of arms on the city's website: Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (offline) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.datteln.de
  17. ↑ Anton Jansen: “The community of Datteln. A contribution to the history of Vestes Recklinghausen "(1881), online: Pastor Jansen on Horneburg 1 §3" The farmers and farms ", (16)
  18. ↑ Key figures, 2009–2008. Vestische Caritas-Kliniken GmbH, accessed on September 6, 2011 .
  19. ↑ Andreas Wyputta: coal-fired power plant in Datteln: climate killer before the corner. In: taz.de . September 18, 2009, accessed March 16, 2017 .
  20. ↑ [Datteln.de https://www.datteln.de/index.asp?db=359&form=detail&id=299 ]
  21. ↑ [Sybille Hahnes life and death http://rhein-main-erleben.de/Sibylle-Hahne-tod.html ]
  22. ↑ Press release from the city of Datteln: “You have to cross borders”: City plaque for Hans Overkämping , April 5, 2019, accessed on June 11, 2019.