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City of Lünen
Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 31 ″  N , 7 ° 30 ′ 51 ″  E
Height : approx. 50 m
Area : 2.49 km²
Residents : 3916  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 1,573 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : October 1, 1923
Postal code : 44532
Area code : 02306

Gahmen (formerly also: Gamen) is a district or statistical district of Lünen (North Rhine-Westphalia) with approx. 3700 inhabitants. It belongs to the district 1277 Gahmen .

geography

Gahmen is located on the southern edge of the city. It borders on the Osterfeld district in the north, the Brambauer district in the west and the Lünen-Süd district in the east . In the south it forms the city limit to the Dortmund district of Derne . The limits of Gahmens have been regulated several times in the past; Hof Schulz-Gahmen is now in the statistical district of Osterfeld and no longer - as it has been for centuries - in the growing district of Gahmen.

history

Schulz-Gahmen Farm

Gahmen was mentioned as Schultz zu Gahmen in the High Middle Ages . It had been part of the Derne office since 1905 and was incorporated into Lünen on October 1, 1923 at the instigation of the farmer and politician Paul Schulz-Gahmen . At that time Gahmen had 1612 inhabitants.

In 1987 the district of Gahmen had a total of 3490 inhabitants. In 2006 there were 3873.

Economy and Infrastructure

During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Gahmen was reserved for agriculture. Local agriculture was mainly carried out by the Schulzenhof (today: Hof Schulz-Gahmen), which was later expanded to include a grain distillery. The estate is still owned by the family. In the course of industrialization, Shaft 2 ("Prussia I / 2" - "Prince Heinrich") was sunk by the Prussia colliery in 1873 , which began operations in 1902. In 1926, during the coal crisis, it was shut down and covered. Despite the closure, in the following years after 1962 the Gneisenau colliery pushed the coal mining under Gahmen. In the 20th century, this led to a lowering of the surface and the groundwater level as well as to considerable mining damage, which tore a valley into the landscape as the Gahmener Loch . In 1985 Gneisenau also stopped funding. Today there is an industrial area on the former colliery site in Gahmen. The settlement of Karlstrasse in Gahmen-Nord, which was also built on the farmland by Carl Schulz-Gahmen in 1900, is a reminder of mining history. In the northwest of the district, on Buchenberg , there has been a copper smelter of Aurubis AG (formerly Hüttenwerke Kayser AG ) since 1916 .

In the north of Gahmens is the Datteln-Hamm Canal , which separates the district development. The so-called Shell Harbor is located on it . Until the four-lane route of the B 236 was built , Gahmen had its own junction that led to the A 2 . However, this was demolished at the end of 1983 when the Dortmund-Nordost cross was built.

The Overbergschule elementary school (formerly Vinckeschule) is also located in Gahmen.

sport and freetime

Napoleon beech at Gahmen

Several sports clubs are active in Gahmen, including the soccer club SG Gahmen 24/74, the table tennis club TTC Gahmen 1960 eV, the basketball department of VfB 08 Lünen and the Canoe and Ski Club Lünen eV Also the tennis community Gahmen, whose men's team is in played in the 2nd Bundesliga in the 1990s , is still very active. Currently (from 2013) the men 60+ play in the regional league. After being strengthened by renowned foreign players, the team became West German champions in the 2015 season, which entitles them to participate in the German team championship in Hamburg in September 2015. In the final round, TG Gahmen lost to TC Aschheim in the game for third place. The German champion was the TC Club on the Alster. In Eschborn at the beginning of September 2016, the TG Gahmen will again play as West German Champions 2016 for the German Tennis Team Championship 2016.

On September 4, 2016, the tennis community Gahmen and their men's team 60+ in Eschborn became German team champions 2016. They beat last year's third TC Aschheim in the final; after the individual games, the TG Gahmen led through a closed team performance unattainable with 5: 1; the doubles were no longer played. The top player at TG Gahmen was the tennis world champion for men 55+ and 60+, the Australian Glenn Busby.

The 2017 final of the German men's 60+ tennis team championship will take place on September 2nd and 3rd at TG Gahmen. In addition to the TG Gahmen, the TC Lörrach, the Club an der Alster and the TC Aschheim play for the title. On September 3rd, TG Gahmen eV defended its title as German team champion in tennis in the men's 60s with a 5: 1 win over the club on the Alster Hamburg. The doubles were no longer played.

On September 2, 2018, TG Gahmen, men 60, became German team champions for the third time in a row with a 5-4 victory over TC GW Luitpoldpark Munich.

Despite the intensive industrial use, Gahmen was able to retain its rural character in large parts. To the west is the Gahmener Wald recreational area , on the edge of which is the two-stem Napoleon beech . Furthermore, the “playground by the water” has its own outdoor pool.

Honorary citizen

  • Paul Schulz-Gahmen (1867–1941), farmer and politician (center), Member of the Bundestag, awarded in 1922

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 235 .
  2. ^ State Office for Data Processing and Statistics (ed.): Population and private households as well as buildings and apartments. Selected results for parts of the community. Arnsberg administrative district . Düsseldorf 1990, p. 282 .
  3. ↑ Wingolf Lehnemann: Data chronicle of the city Luenen. (= Series of publications by the Lünen City Archives. 12). City administration Lünen, Lünen 1992, p. 113.

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