Rauxel

Rauxel City of Castrop-Rauxel Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 19 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	81 m above sea level NN
Area :	6.21 km²
Incorporation :	April 1, 1926
Area code :	02305
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Rauxel is a central part of the town of Castrop-Rauxel, which is part of the Recklinghausen district .

history

In the 1860s, several independent mining companies were searching for coal reserves in the area around the villages of Rauxel and Ickern . Thus, in 1871 with the Zeche Victor in Rauxel, in 1908 with the Zeche Ickern in neighboring Ickern, the coal mining began , in the course of which and in the vicinity other industries also settled. In 1917 the two mines were connected by a joint management and in 1922 the Victor-Ickern funding association was set up. In 1923 Peter Klöckner took over these mines and other mining operations in Klöckner-Werke AG Rauxel-Berlin , which was to have its headquarters in Rauxel for many years. As part of the occupation of the Ruhr , French troops marched into Rauxel in 1923 and occupied the mine there for a year.

On April 1, 1926, Rauxel was merged with the city of Castrop and other communities to form the new city of Castrop-Rauxel, which initially belonged to the Dortmund district until it became a district on April 1, 1928.

Rauxel is affected by the municipal reform in North Rhine-Westphalia as the town of Castrop-Rauxel, to which it belongs, lost its district freedom on January 1, 1975 and was incorporated into the Recklinghausen district. With that, Rauxel also moved from the Arnsberg region to the Münster region .

The Oberste Vöhde residential complex was built in 1992.

Personalities

• Heinz Ballensiefen (1912–?), Historian and National Socialist functionary, assigned to research the " Jewish question "

Web links

• Rauxel in the Westphalia Culture Atlas

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. 274 .