A city of west-central Germany northeast of Cologne. Chartered in 1746 and famous for its textiles in the late 18th century, it became an industrial and manufacturing center after 1870. Population: 196,000.
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A city of west-central Germany northeast of Cologne. Chartered in 1746 and famous for its textiles in the late 18th century, it became an industrial and manufacturing center after 1870. Population: 196,000.
Hagen, a character in the story of the Nibelungs, appears in the earliest form as Högni, son of Gjuki, brother of Gunnar, and murderer of Sigurd. In somewhat analogous form, Wagner makes him in Der Ring des Nibelungen a son of Alberich and the warrior of Gunther, as well as the slayer of Siegfried. In the Nibelungenlied Hagen is the staunch and ruthless adherent of the Burgundian royal family, who kills Siegfried, and in the end faces death unflinchingly. He is referred to as Hagen von Tronie or Tronege, which is possibly identifiable with Tronia, now Kirchheim, in the Palatinate.
A Hagen appears as a king in one of the three generations whose story appears in Kudrun. Hagen also occurs in the Walthersage, which survives in the medieval Latin epic Waltharius.
Hagen figures as a character in the many treatments of the Nibelungenlied, notably in Hebbel's trilogy Die Nibelungen.
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| State | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Admin. region | Arnsberg |
| District | Urban district |
| Lord Mayor | Peter Demnitz (SPD) |
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| Area | km² ( sq mi) |
| Elevation | m (348 ft) |
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| Time zone | CET/CEST ([[UTC+1]]/[[UTC+2|+2]]) |
| Licence plate | HA |
| Postal codes | 58000-58139 |
| Area codes | 02331, 02334, 02337 |
| Website | www.hagen.de |
Hagen is the 37th-largest city in Germany, located in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located on the eastern edge of the Ruhr area - 15 km south of Dortmund.
In this place the rivers Lenne, Volme and Ennepe meet the river Ruhr. The population is 200,000.
Hagen was first mentioned about 1200, presumably the name of a farm at the junctions of Volme and Ennepe. The growth of the city began in the 19th century with the mining of coal and the production of steel in the Ruhr Area. 1928 Hagen became a city with more than 100,000 inhabitants. In the city there is the FernUni Hagen, the only German Open University, with approximately 56,000 students (2004/05), making it the largest university in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Owing to the extensive use of water power along the rivers Ruhr, Lenne, Volme and Ennepe, metal processing played an important role in the region of Hagen in and even before the 15th century.
In the 17th and 18th century, textile and steel industries as well as paper producing followed.
Hagen is home to the Westfälisches Freilichtmuseum Hagen, or Hagen Westphalian Open-Air Museum, a collection of historic industrial facilities where trades such as printing, brewing, smithing, milling, and many others are represented not simply as static displays, but as living, working operations that visitors may in some cases even be invited to participate in. It is located in the Hagen community of Eilpe. The Historical Center contains the Museum of the City and the Werdringen castle. In the cave Blätterhöhle in Hagen the oldest fossils of modern people in Westphalia and the Ruhr Area were found. They are dated in the early Mesolithicum 10,700 years B.C.
The autobahns A1, A45 and A46 touch Hagen.
Hagen has been an important rail junction for the southeastern Ruhr valley since the first rail line opened in 1848. The shunting yard Hagen-Vorhalle is among Germany's largest, and the central station offers connections to the ICE network of Deutsche Bahn as well as to local and S-Bahn services. Since December 2005, Hagen is also the starting point for a new service into Essen, operated by Abellio Rail.
Local traffic is handled by Hagener Straßenbahn (Hagen Tramways), which, despite its name, offers only bus services as the last tramway in Hagen was put out of service in the 1970s. All local rail and bus services operate under the transport association VRR.
Hagen has been twinned with these towns:
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| Urban districts | Aachen · Bielefeld · Bochum · Bonn · Bottrop · Dortmund · Duisburg · Düsseldorf · Essen · Gelsenkirchen · Hagen · Hamm · Herne · Köln (Cologne) · Krefeld · Leverkusen · Mönchengladbach · Mülheim · Münster · Oberhausen · Remscheid · Solingen · Wuppertal | |
| Rural Districts | Aachen · Borken · Kleve (Cleves) · Coesfeld · Düren · Ennepe-Ruhr · Euskirchen · Gütersloh · Heinsberg · Herford · Hochsauerland · Höxter · Lippe · Märkischer Kreis · Mettmann · Minden-Lübbecke · Oberbergischer Kreis · Olpe · Paderborn · Recklinghausen · Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis · Rhein-Erft-Kreis · Rhein-Kreis Neuss · Rhein-Sieg-Kreis · Siegen-Wittgenstein · Soest · Steinfurt · Unna · Viersen · Warendorf · Wesel | |
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