Emscher-Lippe region

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The Emscher-Lippe region lies in the north-west of North Rhine-Westphalia and forms the northern part of the Ruhr area . The name goes back to the two rivers Emscher and Lippe , which flow through the area in an east-west direction. The region includes the Recklinghausen district with ten municipalities belonging to the district as well as the independent cities of Gelsenkirchen and Bottrop . In total, around one million people live in the Emscher-Lippe region on an area of ​​around 966 km². This makes it one of the most densely populated regions in Germany.

Territorial delimitation

Map of the Emscher-Lippe region

The following municipalities belong to the Emscher-Lippe region:

One district cities:

Cities in the Recklinghausen district:

location

The Emscher-Lippe region forms the transition zone between the densely populated Ruhr area in the south and the rural Münsterland in the north. The largest cities in the region are Gelsenkirchen, Bottrop and Recklinghausen , each with more than 100,000 inhabitants. Along with Gladbeck, Herten and Castrop-Rauxel, these cities are assigned to the core zone of the Ruhr area. They are characterized by high building density and population density and traditionally the focus of industry and commerce in the region. There are also some important industrial and commercial settlements in the adjacent urban fringe zone around the cities of Datteln, Dorsten or Marl. In contrast, the extreme north of the region is increasingly dominated by agriculture and has only a few industrial uses.

Connection

The Emscher-Lippe region is well connected to the national road network. The A2 and A42 motorways cross the area in an east-west direction; the motorways A31 , A43 and A52 run in a north-south direction. A number of federal and country roads as well as the connection to the national rail network ensure good accessibility of the region within Germany and Western Europe. Important inland waterways ( Datteln-Hamm Canal , Dortmund-Ems Canal , Rhine-Herne Canal and Wesel-Datteln Canal ) and the connection to the Rhine connect the region with other important industrial areas. In several freight ports, goods can be transferred to other modes of transport (road / rail).

history

The name and self-image of the Emscher-Lippe region go back largely to the North Rhine-Westphalian regional reform in 1975 and the subsequent affiliation of the area to the planning area of ​​the Münster administrative district . The district government of Münster was responsible for regional planning and the creation of the "Regional Plan Emscher-Lippe" in the Emscher-Lippe region until the local elections in 2009 . Since then, the Ruhr Regional Association (RVR) has been responsible for regional planning tasks in its area of ​​the association (according to § 2 LPlG NW). This offers the possibility that regional planning issues for the complex Ruhr area are now dealt with in a bundled manner. This includes in particular the development of a Ruhr area-wide, uniform regional plan, the creation of which has not yet been completed. Therefore, the previous regional plans drawn up by the regional councils of the administrative districts continue to apply to the RVR association area . In the Emscher-Lippe region, this is the “Regional Plan Emscher-Lippe” of the Münster district government from 2004.

WiN Emscher-Lippe

The persistently negative development of the region in the course of the economic structural change in the Ruhr area prompted the municipalities to intensify cooperation at the regional level since the 1980s. Over the years, a community of action has emerged that strove to actively shape structural change through regional location policy, development concepts and strategies. Since 1990, WiN Emscher-Lippe GmbH has been taking on various regional business development tasks in the Emscher-Lippe region, including: a. regional marketing, the implementation of projects, regional consensus building and lobbying. It is a regional business development agency for the twelve cities in the Emscher-Lippe region and other partners involved, such as companies, banks and associations. These include the Emscher-Lippe 4 project , which supports the digital transformation of the region. It sees itself as a complementary institution to the municipal economic development and to the chambers and takes over the implementation of structurally relevant projects on behalf of the region. The ChemSite initiative and the Emscher-Lippe regional agency are part of the WiN umbrella .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IT.NRW - Central Area 14 “Marketing and Public Relations”: Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW). In: www.it.nrw.de. Retrieved August 11, 2016 .
  2. ↑ District government of Münster (ed.): Area development plan for the district of Münster - section "Emscher-Lippe" . Munster November 12, 2004.
  3. ^ Recklinghausen district: Regional plan, section Emscher-Lippe @ planning and information portal. In: www.regioplaner.de. Retrieved August 12, 2016 .
  4. ^ Alois Mayr, Wolfgang Seidel: Development and perspectives of the Emscher-Lippe region . In: Heinz Heineberg (ed.): The Emscher-Lippe region - the Recklinghausen district, the city of Bottrop, the city of Gelsenkirchen. Series: Cities and municipalities in Westphalia, volume 8 . Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2002, p. 42 .
  5. ^ WiN Emscher-Lippe GmbH: Home - WiN Emscher Lippe GmbH. In: www.emscher-lippe.de. Retrieved August 11, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Emscher-Lippe hoch 4 - Experience digitization in the learning and demonstration laboratory for innovation, integration, transfer and education. Retrieved on July 14, 2019 (German).