Ennepe-Ruhr district

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Coat of arms of the Ennepe-Ruhr district Map of Germany, position of the Ennepe-Ruhr district highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 21 '  N , 7 ° 19'  E

Basic data
Existing period: 1929–
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Arnsberg
Regional association : Westphalia-Lippe
Administrative headquarters : Schwelm
Area : 409.64 km 2
Residents: 324,106 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 791 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : EN, WIT
Circle key : 05 9 54
NUTS : DEA56
Circle structure: 9 municipalities
Address of the
district administration: 		Hauptstrasse 92
58332 Schwelm
Website : www.enkreis.de
District Administrator : Olaf Schade ( SPD )
Location of the Ennepe-Ruhr district in North Rhine-Westphalia
Niederlande Belgien Niedersachsen Rheinland-Pfalz Hessen Essen Wuppertal Solingen Remscheid Hagen Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis Bochum Dortmund Herne Gelsenkirchen Bottrop Oberhausen Mülheim an der Ruhr Duisburg Kreis Mettmann Düsseldorf Rhein-Kreis Neuss Kreis Heinsberg Mönchengladbach Krefeld Kreis Viersen Kreis Wesel Kreis Kleve Rhein-Erft-Kreis Kreis Düren Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis Oberbergischer Kreis Kreis Recklinghausen Kreis Borken Kreis Unna Märkischer Kreis Kreis Olpe Hamm Kreis Soest Kreis Coesfeld Kreis Steinfurt Kreis Warendorf Leverkusen Köln Städteregion Aachen Bonn Rhein-Sieg-Kreis Städteregion Aachen Kreis Euskirchen Münster Kreis Siegen-Wittgenstein Hochsauerlandkreis Kreis Paderborn Kreis Gütersloh Kreis Höxter Kreis Lippe Kreis Herford Kreis Minden-Lübbecke Bielefeldmap
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The Ennepe-Ruhr district comprises nine cities with a total of around 324,000 inhabitants and is located in the center of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. The district belongs to the administrative district of Arnsberg and is a member of the Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe and the Regional Association Ruhr (RVR). The district town is Schwelm .

The name of the district, created in 1929, refers to its location in the area of ​​the river valleys of Ennepe and Ruhr .

geography

Spatial location

In terms of its natural surroundings, almost the entire district is part of the hilly to medium mountainous Southern Mountains , part of the Rhenish Slate Mountains . Only in the north do some areas of Witten belong to the Westphalian Bay , part of the north German lowlands . The highest elevation in the Ennepe-Ruhr district is 441  m above sea level. NN high Wengeberg in Breckerfeld. The deepest point is about 60  m above sea level. NN on the Ruhr in Hattingen . Thus there is a height difference of 381 meters in the district. The landscape and the settlement structures are accordingly diverse.

In terms of culture and economic geography , the district lies at the interface of the Ruhr area (in the north), Sauerland (in the south-east) and Bergisches Land (in the south-west). Mainly because of its membership in the Ruhr Regional Association (formerly the Ruhr coal district settlement association or the Ruhr district municipal association) and increasingly since the incorporation of the Ruhr city of Witten in 1975, it is today - viewed as a whole - mostly counted as part of the Ruhr area. In addition, the district, in some contexts only parts of the district, is counted as part of the South Westphalia region , which refers to its historical affiliation with the state of Westphalia .

District cities

The Ennepe-Ruhr district is made up of nine municipalities , all of which bear the title of city . The two cities of Hattingen and Witten are considered to be large cities belonging to the district , as their population numbers are over 50,000. Of the other seven, six are medium-sized district cities , as their population is between 20,000 and 50,000. The old Hanseatic city of Breckerfeld, with a smaller number of inhabitants, has had city rights since 1396.

Bochum Dortmund Essen Gelsenkirchen Hagen Herne Kreis Mettmann Kreis Unna Märkischer Kreis Oberbergischer Kreis Remscheid Wuppertal Breckerfeld Ennepetal Gevelsberg Hattingen Herdecke Schwelm Sprockhövel Wetter (Ruhr) WittenMunicipalities in EN.svg
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 Overview of the 9 cities in the Ennepe-Ruhr district
as of December 31, 2019
city surface Residents Population density
Breckerfeld 58.78 km² 08,943 0152 inhabitants per km²
Ennepetal 57.43 km² 30,142 0525 inhabitants per km²
Gevelsberg 26.29 km² 30,701 1168 inhabitants per km²
Hattingen 71.40 km² 54,438 0762 inhabitants per km²
Herdecke 22.40 km² 22,755 1016 inhabitants per km²
Schwelm 20.50 km² 28,537 1392 inhabitants per km²
Sprockhövel 47.80 km² 24,739 0518 inhabitants per km²
Weather (Ruhr) 31.47 km² 27,392 0870 inhabitants per km²
Witten 72.37 km² 96,459 1333 inhabitants per km²
Ennepe-Ruhr district as a whole 408.44 km² 324.1060 0794 inhabitants per km²

Neighboring districts and cities

Starting in the north in a clockwise direction, the Ennepe-Ruhr district borders on the independent cities of Bochum , Dortmund and Hagen , on the Märkische (with the cities of Schalksmühle and Halver ) and the Oberbergische Kreis (with the city of Radevormwald ), on the independent city Wuppertal , the Mettmann district (with the city of Velbert ) and the independent city of Essen .

history

History before the circle was founded

Ruins of the Volmarstein Castle , formerly the seat of the Lords of Volmestein

That part of the area of ​​today's Ennepe-Ruhr district, which was subordinate to the Count of Isenberg until 1225 , was transferred to the County of Mark on May 1, 1243 with the Treaty of Essen . The greater part of the district did not come to the Grafschaft Mark until 1324 with the expulsion of the Lords of Volmarstein .

In 1609 the Elector of Brandenburg inherited the County of Mark, which he ruled together with a co-heir until 1614 and after 1614 with the conclusion of the Jülich-Klevian War of Succession in the Treaty of Xanten .

During the French occupation from 1807 to 1813, today's district area was almost entirely in the Hagen arrondissement . From 1816 it belonged again to Prussia and the province of Westphalia .

Circle foundation

The Ennepe-Ruhr district was created on August 1, 1929 - at the time of the Weimar Republic a few weeks before the start of the global economic crisis - on the basis of the law on the municipal reorganization of the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area . This law united the Schwelm district with the municipalities of the Hattingen district and the Hagen district , which were not incorporated into the cities of Bochum , Hagen and Witten . The district initially consisted of five cities with no official offices and ten offices with 31 municipalities:

Administrative division 1929
Office Communities
Blankenstein Blankenstein , Buchholz , Holthausen and Welper
Breckerfeld Breckerfeld , Dahl and Waldbauer
Hasslinghausen Gennebreck , Haßlinghausen , Hiddinghausen I and Linderhausen
Hattingen Altendorf , Bredenscheid-Stueter , Niederelfringhausen , Oberelfringhausen , Oberstueter and Winz
Herbede Herbede
Milspe Milspe
Sprockhövel Hiddinghausen II , Niedersprockhövel and Obersprockhövel
Voerde Voerde
Volmarstein Asbeck , Berge , Esborn , Grundschöttel , Silschede , Volmarstein and Wengern
The End The End
free of charge Gevelsberg , Hattingen , Herdecke , Schwelm and Wetter

The following changes were made in the administrative structure of the district:

  • The Herbede office was abolished in 1934.
  • The two offices of Milspe and Voerde were merged in 1937 to form the office of Milspe-Voerde .
  • In the same year Hiddinghausen I and Hiddinghausen II were merged to form the municipality of Hiddinghausen . Hiddinghausen was assigned to the office Haßlinghausen.
  • At the same time the Sprockhövel office was dissolved. Niedersprockhövel and Obersprockhövel came to the Blankenstein office.
  • In 1939 the community of Ende was incorporated into the city of Herdecke.
  • In the same year Grundschöttel was incorporated into Volmarstein.
  • In 1949, Milspe and Voerde merged to form the city of Ennepetal , which was free of charge .
  • In 1951 the municipality of Herbede was granted town charter and became vacant.
  • Niedersprockhövel and Obersprockhövel merged in 1960 to form the municipality of Sprockhövel .
  • In 1966 Buchholz, Holthausen and Welper were incorporated into Blankenstein.

Thus in 1969 the district consisted of seven cities with no offices and five offices with 21 municipalities.

Municipal reorganization in 1970 and 1975

On January 1, 1970, the law on the reorganization of the Ennepe-Ruhr district as part of the municipal reorganization in North Rhine-Westphalia resulted in numerous incorporations:

  • Blankenstein, Bredenscheid-Stüter, Niederelfringhausen, Oberelfringhausen, Oberstüter and Winz were incorporated into the city of Hattingen.
  • Esborn, Volmarstein and Wengern were incorporated into the city of Wetter.
  • Haßlinghausen, Hiddinghausen and Gennebreck were incorporated into Sprockhövel. Sprockhövel received city rights.
  • Linderhausen was incorporated into the town of Schwelm.
  • Asbeck, Berge and Silschede were largely incorporated into the town of Gevelsberg.
  • Dahl was incorporated into Breckerfeld.
  • Altendorf was incorporated into the independent city of Essen and has been called Burgaltendorf since then .
  • Waldbauer was incorporated into the independent city of Hagen .

At the same time, all offices were dissolved. The incorporation of Waldbauer into the city of Hagen on December 18, 1970 was reversed by a ruling by the Constitutional Court in Münster .

On January 1, 1975, the last changes to the area so far took place under the Ruhr Area Act and the Sauerland / Paderborn Act :

  • Herbede was in the hitherto independent city Witten incorporated.
  • Witten was incorporated into the Ennepe-Ruhr district.
  • Waldbauer was incorporated into Breckerfeld.
  • Dahl, which was incorporated into Breckerfeld in 1970, was re-incorporated into the independent city of Hagen .

Population development

Population development between 1975 and 2012 (still without correction according to the 2011 census )

Data on the district-wide population development are only directly comparable for the period from the last regional reform in 1975 to the present day. Earlier figures from the years 1929 to 1974 relate to old territorial estates, i.e. H. on a smaller area with partly different layout of the communities. In particular, the city of Witten did not belong to the district before 1975; Today it has by far the largest number of inhabitants in the towns belonging to the district.

Around 324,000 people live in the Ennepe-Ruhr district. In 1993 the highest population was recorded with around 353,000 people. Since 2000, the number of inhabitants has been falling continuously , mainly due to demographic change . The 2011 census also corrected the population in the Ennepe-Ruhr district down by 1.4 percent.

year Residents
1933 167.230
1939 172.328
1950 216.903
1960 255,400
1970 263,600
1975 351,627
1980 346.955
1985 336.247
1990 349,412
1995 352.069
2000 350.781
2005 342,642
2010 331,575
2015 325,954

Administration and politics

District administration

District building in Schwelm with sculptures of the "city iconography"

The administrative seat has been the town of Schwelm since the district was founded in 1929 . The district building, which was inaugurated in 1972 on the edge of Schwelm city center, houses a large part of the district administration and the district police authority ; Branch offices of the district administration exist for health authorities and registration offices in other buildings in Schwelm, Witten, Hattingen and Gevelsberg. The “Stadtikonographie Schwelm” sculpture ensemble designed by the artist Otto Herbert Hajek is located on the forecourt and in the meeting wing of the district building.

Head of the district administration with currently (2013) around 690 employees and the district police authority with around 320 employees is the district administrator.

District administrators and senior district directors

The top management of the Ennepe-Ruhr district has historically been subject to several changes. A distinction must be made between the functions of the district administrator , the senior district director and, for a short time, the "district mayor". In particular, the importance of the district administrator has changed significantly over time.

During the Weimar Republic until 1933 and the German Reich from 1933 to 1945, the district administrators were state officials and were appointed by the respective state ministry:

In the post-war period from 1945 onwards, there was only limited self-government in the district. The CCG / BE , the military government in the British occupation zone , appointed a district administrator, known as the “district mayor” in the first few months, who was responsible for the administrative management of the district, but was subject to the instructions of the military government. He was also chairman of the district council appointed by the military government.

  • 1945–1946: Willi Vahle (from Schwelm)

At the beginning of 1946, the military government then introduced the “ dual leadership ” consisting of the Oberkreisdirektor (OKD) and the district administrator. The OKD was responsible for official decisions and all administrative business, the district administrator was determined from the middle of the first appointed, later elected district council and took over its chairmanship. This double-top structure was in principle retained after the Federal Republic of Germany was founded from 1949 to 1996. During this time, the senior district directors were key administrative officials in the district. The district councilors were elected by the district council, not directly by the population; they were volunteers and primarily had political and representative tasks.

Upper District Directors:
  • February – March 1946: Willi Vahle (previously District Administrator, temporarily)
  • March – May 1946: Erich Blumenroth (tax inspector from Gevelsberg, temporarily)
  • 1946–1954: Wilhelm Loges (previously Official Director Volmarstein )
  • 1954–1972: Paul Schulze
  • 1972–1992: Ernst Homberg
  • 1992–1996: Uta Scholle
 District administrators:

In the 1990s, which was district regulations of the country North Rhine-Westphalia changed. The local constitution system was brought into line with the South German council constitution and the dual-top structure was dissolved. Since then, the district administrators, as full-time election officials, have been the sole administrative heads of the districts; There are no longer senior district directors. In the Ennepe-Ruhr district, a district administrator was elected directly by the population for the first time in 1996.

In managing the administration, the district administrator is supported by a full-time district director who is also his general representative. Until 2005 this was Wolfgang Becker. District director Iris Pott has held this position since 2005; it was elected by the district council until 2020. In the representative representation of the district, the district administrator is also supported on a voluntary basis by deputy district administrators. Since the last election in 2014, these have been the district council members Sabine Kelm-Schmidt (SPD), Walter Faupel (CDU) and Jörg Obereiner (Bündnis90 / Die Grünen).

District council

Election of the Ennepe-Ruhr district council in 2014
in percent
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
39.4%
28.7%
13.0%
5.4%
4.5%
3.6%
2.7%
2.3%
0.4%
FW-EN
Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to 2009
 % p
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
+ 0.6  % p
-0.7  % p
+ 0.2  % p
+ 0.1  % p
-4.1  % p
+ 3.6  % p.p.
+ 0.8  % p
+ 2.3  % p
-2.8  % p
FW-EN
Otherwise.
Allocation of seats in the
Ennepe-Ruhr district council in 2014
         
A total of 66 seats

The formal first district council of the Ennepe-Ruhr district, created in August 1929, was temporarily appointed by the supervisory authority , but it was not active. The first election to the district assembly took place on November 17, 1929. Of the total of 36 district council members, 12 belonged to the SPD , 4 each from the Center and the KPD , 3 each from the DVP , the DNVP and the WP , 2 each from the DDP , the EVD and the NSDAP , one Finally, the Agricultural Association (cf. VdB and RLB ) provided deputies . The only woman in the district assembly at the time was Emma Horbach from the KPD. As a result of the National Socialist "seizure of power" , this first elected district assembly was prematurely dissolved on February 4, 1933. After the new election held on March 12, 1933, the NSDAP was the strongest parliamentary group with 15 members. In the context of the “ Gleichschaltung ”, first the 5 KPD MPs and later the 9 SPD MPs were withdrawn from their seats shortly afterwards; the 4 center representatives resigned their mandates themselves. In addition to the NSDAP representatives, the remaining district council also had two MPs from the Black-White-Red and one EVD MP. In July 1933, the responsibilities of the district council were finally transferred by law to the district committee , which made the district council functionless.

After the Second World War , the British military government appointed a new district council on November 29, 1945 . Among the 57 appointed, i.e. not elected members, in consultation with the newly formed parties at the time, there were a total of 43 members from the SPD, CDU , Liberal Democratic Party and KPD as well as 12 representatives from professional organizations and two representatives selected directly by the military government. In the following months, the reorganization of local self-government began and the district council gradually received further decision-making powers. After the formation of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in August 1946 - in the post - war period marked by hardship - a district election was held for the first time on October 13, 1946, in which around 78 percent of those eligible to vote took part. The new district council was still under British military supervision and had only limited powers. Of the 48 MPs, 34 belonged to the SPD, 9 to the CDU, 3 to the FDP and 2 to the KPD. In 1948, the municipal electoral law for North Rhine-Westphalia was fundamentally changed, from then on it combined elements of personality voting with list-based proportional representation . The new election on October 17, 1948 resulted in a district council with 57 members, of which 24 belonged to the SPD, 14 to the CDU, 12 to the FDP and 7 to the KPD. In May 1949, the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany was promulgated and the occupying powers largely withdrew at the local government level. The last district council meeting in the Ennepe-Ruhr district, attended by representatives of the military government, took place in December 1950. At the end of 1952, the first regular free district elections followed after the municipal electoral law was changed again.

In all district elections from 1946 onwards, the SPD emerged as the strongest parliamentary group. Between 1956 and 1994 she was able to determine politics in the district with an absolute majority .

In the district elections on August 30, 2009 , 54.8% of the eligible voters in the Ennepe-Ruhr district took part. The number of district council members increased from the planned 60 to 72 through overhang mandates in 2009. In addition to five parliamentary groups (SPD, CDU, Greens, FDP and Left) there were three non-attached mandate holders in the district council .

The result of the 2014 district elections in the Ennepe-Ruhr district was not known until June 15, 2014, due to the necessary by-elections.

Distribution of seats in the district council
Parties and constituencies elected representatives (seats)
1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2014
SPD 40 33 25th 23 28 26th
CDU 21st 21st 24 21st 22nd 19th
GREEN 07th 07th 05 07th 09 08th
LEFT  1) 0- 0- 0- 01 04th 04th
FDP 05 0- 03 04th 06th 03
AfD 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 02
Free voters Ennepe-Ruhr (FW-EN)  2) 0- 0- 02 02 01 02
PIRATES 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 02
NPD 0- 0- 01 01 01 0-
Witten Citizens' Community (WBG)  3) 0- 0- 0- 01 01 0-
Total elected officials 73 61 60 60 72 66
1) Designation until 2007: PDS
2) Designation until 2008: Voting Association Ennepe-Ruhr (WGEN)
3) WBG merged with FW-EN for the 2014 election

Currently there is the following distribution of seats according to parliamentary groups in the district council (as of December 2014):

SPD CDU GREEN THE LEFT FW-EN / PIRATES FDP Non-attached total
26th 19th 8th 4th 4th 3 2 66
FW-EN 2
PIRATE 2		 AfD 2

In the 2014–2020 electoral period, the SPD and GRÜNE will continue their coalition, which has existed since 2009.

Logo of the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis since 2004

His coat of arms was awarded to the Ennepe-Ruhr district on October 2, 1937. The heraldically correct description of the coat of arms reads: "In gold a red and silver chess bar, accompanied by a blue wave bar at the top and bottom." The chess bar stands for the county of Mark , to which the district belonged from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 19th century two wave beams for the rivers Ennepe and Ruhr , which gave the district its name.

The logo of the circle, introduced in 2004, shows nine orange-red small squares against the background of a large square in two shades of blue. These elements symbolize the nine municipalities of the district and the two rivers after which the Ennepe-Ruhr district is named. In addition, the design of the logo is based on the "Schwelm City Iconography" designed by Otto Herbert Hajek on or in the district building. Before that, the letter combination EN was used in various forms as the emblem of the circle.

Infrastructure and economy

In the Future Atlas 2016 , the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis was ranked 221 out of 402 districts, municipal associations and independent cities in Germany, making it one of the regions with a “balanced risk-opportunity mix” for the future.

traffic

Federal motorway 1 in Gevelsberg

Transportation

All towns in the district - with the exception of Sprockhövel and Breckerfeld - are connected to local rail transport . The most important train stations in the district are Schwelm and Witten Hauptbahnhof , each of which is assigned to station category 3. The next long-distance train stations are Hagen , Wuppertal , Bochum , Dortmund and Essen .

The district is served by the regional express lines RE 4 , 7 , 13 and 16 , the regional trains RB 40 and RB 52 and the lines S 3, 5, 8 and 9 of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn . The local rail transport is carried out on behalf of the VRR by the companies DB Regio NRW , Eurobahn (Keolis), National Express and Abellio Rail NRW .

Today tram lines only run in Hattingen with line 308 and in Witten with lines 309 and 310. All three lines have a connection to Bochum . They are operated by Bochum-Gelsenkirchener Straßenbahnen AG .

In addition, numerous bus routes operate in the district, which are mainly operated by the Ennepe-Ruhr transport company (VER). In addition, buses from Hagener Straßenbahn AG , WSW mobil and Bochum-Gelsenkirchener Straßenbahnen AG also operate in the Ennepe-Ruhr district. All companies belong to the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR).

Road traffic

The Ennepe-Ruhr district has excellent connections to the trunk road network. The federal highways 1 , 43 , 44 and 46 run through the district with several junctions. The federal motorway 45 runs immediately east of the district with which it is connected by the Dortmund / Witten motorway junction . The Wuppertal-Nord motorway junction is located in the Sprockhövel city area - directly on the border with the district town of Schwelm .

On January 1, 2018, almost 195,000 passenger cars , 20,000 motorcycles and 14,000 trucks and buses were registered in the district. The traffic accident statistics of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for the year 2004 show that at least at that time in the Ennepe-Ruhr district the fewest accidents per inhabitant occurred and the fewest people had road accidents.

Energy-and water supply

Cuno power plant in Herdecke

There are two local and regional energy and water supply companies in the district : the Stadtwerke Witten in Witten and the public limited company for supply companies (AVU) in Gevelsberg , whose traditional supply area includes the Ennepe-Ruhr district with the exception of Witten and Herdecke. The city of Herdecke is part of the supply area of ​​the Dortmund DEW21 (water and natural gas) and the Hagener Mark-E (electricity).

There are several power plants in the district to generate electricity . These include u. a. the Cuno power plant (a gas and steam turbine power plant) and the Koepchenwerk (a pumped storage power plant) in Herdecke as well as several hydropower plants (including the run-of-river power plants Stiftsmühle , Harkort and Hohenstein ). There are also numerous photovoltaic systems , primarily installed on private buildings, and some wind turbines . In addition, there are some biogas plants in the district (including sewage gas and landfill gas plants ), which are mostly operated with connected block - type thermal power stations.

For water production are Ennepetalsperre ( waterworks Rohland AVU), the Heilenbecke dam and plant at the Ruhr ( groundwater and bank filtrate ) is important.

Civil protection

Witten fire brigade guard

As the lower disaster control authority, the Ennepe-Ruhr district is responsible for disaster control in the entire district. It is subordinate to the Arnsberg district government, which in turn represents the middle disaster control authority. Together with the Dortmund professional fire brigade , the Ennepe-Ruhr district forms the third association.

In the district area, disaster control is ensured in close cooperation with the nine cities belonging to the district and the aid organizations. The medical equipment vehicles (GW-San) provided by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) are operated by the German Red Cross and the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund in Witten and the Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe in Herdecke and in Ennepetal. The Ennepe-Ruhr district has stationed an AB-MANV ( roll-off container for mass casualties) provided by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the city of Herdecke. This is technically operated by the Herdecke volunteer fire brigade and the provisions of the BHP50 are ensured by the aid organizations .

The fire protection is ensured by the municipalities. Only the city of Witten has a professional fire brigade and a volunteer fire brigade . The municipalities of Hattingen, Ennepetal, Schwelm and Gevelsberg maintain a volunteer fire brigade with full-time staff, the other municipalities have volunteer fire brigades. The professional fire brigade in Witten has an AB-EL (roll-off container operational control) available for major incidents, which was procured by the Ennepe-Ruhr district in 2009 and is used throughout the district.

The Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis is responsible for the rescue service . In addition to the fire brigades, the rescue service is provided by the aid organizations Deutsches Rotes Kreuz, Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe, Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund and the rescue stations of the cities of Wetter (Ruhr) and Herdecke. There are a total of eleven rescue service locations in the district as well as the four NEF locations in Witten, Herdecke, Hattingen and Schwelm (2 NEFs)

The integrated control center for fire protection, rescue services and major incidents, built in 2005 , is housed in the district building in Schwelm. The responsible control center dispatchers alert all auxiliary staff in the district centrally and digitally.

In addition, there are four local branches of the Federal Agency for Technical Relief (OV Schwelm, OV Wetter, OV Hattingen and OV Witten) which are subordinate to the Bochum regional office.

education

University of Witten / Herdecke

The Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis supports three vocational colleges (in Ennepetal, Hattingen and Witten), a comprehensive school (in Sprockhövel) and two special needs schools (in Witten and Sprockhövel).

The private university of Witten / Herdecke has existed in the Ennepe-Ruhr district since 1982, and is the only fully non-state-sponsored German university.

economy

Industry in Witten: Deutsche Edelstahlwerke

The south of the district was previously characterized by the small iron industry , while the north was characterized by the large-scale industry of iron processing and steel production.

Even today, the district is one of the most strongly commercial and industrial areas in North Rhine-Westphalia. As elsewhere, however, the secondary economic sector lost its importance considerably compared to the tertiary sector until the 1990s. Since then, politics and companies have endeavored to redefine the business location, especially through services in the fields of health, leisure and tourism. Many medium-sized companies as well as important specialist clinics and research institutes can be found in the Ennepe-Ruhr district in the health sector . The tourism is specifically targeted at visitors from the Ruhr area , the Bergische Land and Sauerland from.

The EN Agency for Economic Development has existed since 1996 .

With a value of 108.7 in 2006, the purchasing power index in the Ennepe-Ruhr district was slightly above the national average.

As part of the social reforms according to Hartz IV , the Ennepe-Ruhr district was approved as one of 69 optional municipalities . As a result, the JobAgenturEN has been looking after the long-term unemployed since 2005 . On January 1, 2011, it was renamed JobCenterEN .

media

The following daily newspapers appear in the district with local editions : Westfalenpost / Westfälische Rundschau (everywhere), Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (Witten, Hattingen, Sprockhövel), Ruhr Nachrichten (Witten) and Westdeutsche Zeitung (Sprockhövel). In addition, weekly advertisements appear in all cities, some of which report beyond municipal boundaries.

The radio program WDR 2 supplies the district area with news from its Dortmund studio. There are no open channels in the district. Since 1991, however, Radio Ennepe Ruhr has been a private local radio station for the district. He broadcasts six hours a day of self-produced local programs from the radio house in Hagen ( 107.7 Radio Hagen ), the rest of the program is taken over by Radio NRW . Programs from two recognized radio workshops (Gevelsberg and Ruhrstadtstudio Witten ) are also broadcast as part of the citizens' radio program . At the beginning of 2007, Radio Ennepe Ruhr had almost 50,000 listeners a day from Monday to Friday.

The district area is covered by local time from Dortmund by WDR television .

Culture and sights

Henrichshütte during the ExtraSchicht 2009

Together with four cities and two museums, the district organized the joint project EN-Kunst . National and international artists exhibited pictures, sculptures and installations at various locations such as the Kluterthöhle in Ennepetal, the Westphalian Industrial Museum Henrichshütte in Hattingen, the LWL industrial museum Zeche Nachtigall in Witten, the Stadtgarten Gevelsberg and the Kreishaus in Schwelm. The last EN art took place in 2006.

The Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis took part in the activities within the framework of RUHR.2010 - European Capital of Culture .

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the Ennepe-Ruhr district was assigned the distinctive EN mark when the license plates that are still valid today were introduced . It is still issued today. Since November 14, 2012, the license plate liberalization has also made the distinguishing mark WIT (Witten) available.

literature

  • Wolf-Dieter Lepiorz: The Ennepe-Ruhr district in history, culture and research. A bibliographical contribution to regional research together with additions to the “Bibliography of the City of Witten” . Witten 2016 ( at Scribd ).
  • Holger Krieg: To Ennepe and Ruhr. Edition Limosa, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86037-447-4 .
  • Ingo Niemann (Red.): The Ennepe-Ruhr district. Portrait of German districts. 3. edit again. Edition. Verlag Kommunikation und Wirtschaft, Oldenburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-88363-236-0 .
  • Regina Mentner: The employment of forced laborers for tasks in the "old" Ennepe-Ruhr district (PDF; 195 kB). Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis, Schwelm 2002.
  • Klaus Balve (Red.): The Ennepe-Ruhr district. Portrait of German districts. Verlag Kommunikation und Wirtschaft, Oldenburg 1991, ISBN 978-3-88363-094-6 .
  • Oberkreisdirektor of the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis (Hrsg.): Fifty years Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis. The emergence of a district from the retort. Arranged by Richard Grünschläger u. a., Schwelm 1979.
  • Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis (Ed.): Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis. Kunstverlag Bühn, Munich 1975.
  • Paul Schulze (Red.): The Ennepe-Ruhr district. Landscape, history, culture, economy, administration. Gerhard Stalling Wirtschaftsverlag, Oldenburg 1965.
  • Hugo Siegert, Günther Gedat: Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis. The book of the district of Ennepe-Ruhr. Land on the Ennepe and Ruhr. Published by the Ennepe-Ruhr roundabout association, Dortmund magazine publisher Eugen Schinker, Dortmund 1959.
  • District council of the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis (Hrsg.): The Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis. Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the circle. Schwelm 1954.
  • Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis (Ed.): The landscape structure of the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis. Schwelm 1954.
  • AG of the Westphalian Heimatbund in the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis (Hrsg.): Spatial division of the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis in the past and present. Schwelm 1947.

Web links

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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 Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
  3. ↑ Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis: location.
  4. ↑ 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 )
  5. ↑ a b c d Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis: History.
  6. ^ Wolfgang Leesch: Administration in Westphalia 1815-1945 . In: Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia . tape 38 . Aschendorff, Münster 1992, ISBN 3-402-06845-1 , p. 383 .
  7. ↑ ennepetal.de: City foundation
  8. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 246 .
  9. ↑ Heimatverein Buchholz: Geschichtliches
  10. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 244 .
  11. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster (Westphalia) 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 .
  12. ^ 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. 333 .
  13. ↑ Sabine Kruse: 1630 Hattinger less than expected. WAZ , June 4, 2013, accessed December 15, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the Reich in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. ennepe.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  15. ^ State database North Rhine-Westphalia
  16. ↑ a b Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis: District Administrator.
  17. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k district council of the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis (Hrsg.): The Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis. Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the circle. Schwelm 1954, pp. 252-254
  18. ↑ Olaf Schade inherits Arnim Brux as district administrator. In: wz.de. Westdeutsche Zeitung, September 13, 2015, accessed on January 16, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis: District director: District council elects Iris Pott for another eight years. Press release of July 3, 2012
  20. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j district council of the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis (ed.): The Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis. Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the district. Schwelm 1954, pp. 245-248
  21. ^ State database North Rhine-Westphalia. Landesbetrieb Information und Technik Nordrhein-Westfalen , 2013, accessed on October 20, 2013 (access to values ​​via code 14411-01 District elections : eligible voters, voters, valid votes and elected representatives by party ).
  22. ↑ https://www.spd-kreistagsfraktion-ennepe-ruhr.de/kooperationspapier-2014-2020/
  23. ↑ Future Atlas 2016. Handelsblatt, accessed on December 4, 2018 .
  24. ^ Homepage of Verkehrsgesellschaft Ennepe Ruhr mbH. Retrieved October 21, 2018 .
  25. ↑ Registration districts and municipalities. Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt, accessed on October 21, 2018 (the corresponding Excel table can be accessed there).
  26. ↑ Ministry of the Interior of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Ed.): Traffic accident statistics of the North Rhine-Westphalia police 2004. ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 937 kB), p. 76
  27. ↑ Dennis Sohner: Witten brings up the rear when it comes to wind power. WAZ, April 10, 2011, accessed December 15, 2016 .
  28. ↑ Kurt Bein: Electricity from wind power. "Wind harvest" in ... WAZ, January 28, 2011, accessed on December 15, 2016 .
  29. ↑ Ennepe-Ruhr district. In: EnergyMap. DGS , accessed September 16, 2013 .
  30. ^ EN agency (ed.): Business location Ennepe-Ruhr. Mehlis, Nordhausen 2006.
  31. ↑ See Westfälische Rundschau of March 10, 2007.