Kley (Dortmund)

Kley City of Dortmund Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 16 ″  N , 7 ° 21 ′ 52 ″  E
Height :	approx. 95 m above sea level NHN
Area :	1.6 km²
Residents :	3426  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	2.141 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	April 1, 1928
Postcodes :	44149, 44388
Area code :	0231
Statistical District :	72
Location of Kley in Dortmund

Kley is the statistical district 72 and at the same time a western part of the city of Dortmund . It belongs to the district of Lütgendortmund .

Kley is first mentioned in 1150 as Cleige. The district goes back to a Westphalian farming village, which was urbanized in the course of industrialization by the neighboring Oespel and Borussia collieries .

Kley was incorporated on April 1, 1928.

A famous son of the village of Kley is Wilhelm Tönnis , the nestor of neurosurgery, who was born as a scion of the old Kleyer farming family Tönnis on the Tönnishof in Kley, which has existed since around 1600 and was buried in the Oespeler cemetery. The neoclassical rural mansion of the Tönnis family, built in 1884, now serves as the headquarters of the internationally known architects Gerber und Partner.

For decades, Kley was Albert Schulze-Vellinghausen's home .

geography

Kley is about eight kilometers west of Dortmund city center. The S-Bahn line (Solingen–) Bochum – Dortmund runs through the town . The S-Bahn line 1 stops at the stop of the same name.

Row houses and smaller apartment buildings predominate in the east of Kleys. In the west of Kley there is the modern home settlement between Kleyer Feld and Kleybredde as well as the Echeloh settlement, built in 1964 by VEBA Wohnstätten AG on the former site of the Kramer Hof , which, with 728 residential units, represents the largest contiguous settlement area in Kley.

The Dorneywald nature reserve is located in the southeast of the district .

population

Structure of the Kleyer population:

• Share of the population under 18 years of age: 15.5% [Dortmund average: 16.2% (2018)]
• Population share of at least 65-year-olds: 19.0% [Dortmund average: 20.2% (2018)]
• Proportion of foreigners: 13.4% [Dortmund average: 18.8% (2019)]
• Unemployment rate: 8.8% [Dortmund average: 11.0% (2017)]

The average income in Kley is slightly above the Dortmund average.

Population development

year	1987	2003	2008	2013	2016	2018
Residents	3495	3404	3359	3408	3449	3462

Personalities

• Wilhelm Tönnis (1898–1978), neurosurgeon

Web links

Heinz Pickhan: Small Chronicle of Kley

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures in the statistical districts on December 31, 2019 (PDF)
2. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 253 .
3. ↑ Population share of the under 18 year olds Statistical Atlas 2019 (PDF file)
4. ↑ Population share of at least 65-year-olds Statistical Atlas 2019 (PDF file)
5. ↑ Nationalities in the statistical districts on December 31, 2019 (PDF file)
6. ↑ Unemployment rates according to statistical districts on June 30, 2017 ( memento of the original from June 25, 2018 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 file)