Lippe (Waltrop)
Lippe is one of seven farmers in the town of Waltrop in the Recklinghausen district . Lippe is located north of the city center, bordering the city of Datteln (northwest), Selm (north) and Lünen (northeast). To the west is the Waltrop farming community of Holthausen and to the south-east is the farming community of Elmenhorst and Brockenscheidt . The Waltrop district itself is divided into lower lip (northeast) and upper lip (southwest).
population
On January 31, 2014, 844 residents in Lippe and Holthausen were counted together.
history
In 1894, the sewage fields of the city of Dortmund were created.
Shaft III of the Waltrop colliery was sunk in 1956 in the Lippe district on Unterlipper Strasse . It served as a material and rope access shaft. In 1979 the mine was closed.
Waters
The river Lippe flows through the district and at the same time forms the northern border to the Selmer district of Bork . In addition, the Datteln-Hamm Canal runs through Lippe.
traffic
The Oberhausen-Osterfeld-Hamm railway line crosses the district. However, passenger traffic is currently suspended here.
Police murders in Dortmund and Waltrop
On June 14, 2000, the 31-year-old neo-Nazi Michael Berger shot dead two police officers at the intersection of Borker Strasse / Unterlipper Strasse / Oberlipper Strasse. Before that, he shot a police officer in Dortmund . This act went down in history under the name of the Dortmund and Waltrop Police Murders .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population figures of Waltrop as of December 31, 2014 according to the mail information from the Waltrop Citizens' Office
- ↑ http://www.dortmund-holthausen.de/Holthausen/BilderausHolthausen/Der%20unbekannte%20Dortmunder%20Kanal2.pdf
- ↑ Joachim Huske: The coal mine in the Ruhr area. 3rd edition, Bochum 2006, p. 1011.
- ↑ https://blog.zeit.de/stoerungsmelder/2015/05/22/gedenken-an-von-neonazi-ermordete-polizisten_19413
Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ' N , 7 ° 26' E