Bottrop

 

(bôt'rôp) , city (1994 pop. 119,680), North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany, in the Ruhr district. It was a small town until 1863, when it began to develop as a coal-mining center. In 1975 the annexation of Kirchhellen and Gladbeck practically doubled the population of Bottrop. Today the city is an industrial center. In addition to its coal output, manufactures include chemicals, machinery, and steel. There are large carbonization plants there. Bottrop was known around the 11th cent. as Borgthorpe.

Bottrop
Coat of arms	Location
Administration
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region	Münster
District	Urban district
Mayor	Peter Noetzel (SPD)
Basic statistics
Area	km² ( sq mi)
Elevation	m  (197 ft)
Population	Please give "Stand or population_as_of" in YYYY-MM-DD format , e. g. 2005-12-31 Landesamt für Statistik
- Density	/km² ( /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST ([[UTC+1]]/[[UTC+2|+2]])
Licence plate	BOT
Postal codes	46236–46244
Area codes	02041, 02045
Website	bottrop.de Coordinates: 51°31′29″N 06°55′22″E / 51.52472, 6.92278

 Bottrop? (IPA: [ˈbɔtʁɔp]) is a city in west central Germany, on the Rhine-Herne Canal, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Located in the Ruhr industrial area, Bottrop adjoins Essen, Oberhausen, Gladbeck and Dorsten. The city had been a coal-mining and rail center and contains factories producing coal-tar derivatives, chemicals, textiles, and machinery. Bottrop grew as a mining center beginning in the 1860s and was chartered as a city in 1921. In 1975 it unified with the neighbour communities of Gladbeck and Kirchhellen, but Gladbeck left it in 1976, leading to Kirchhellen becoming a district of Bottrop as Bottrop-Kirchhellen.

Bottrop has the longest stretch of autobahn without junctions which is often used for testing vehicles at high speed, and is home to the famous Mercedes-Benz tuning company. Brabus.

Religious Demographics & Churches

• Catholic: ~50% (19 churches)
• Protestant (Lutheran): ~20% (8 churches)
• Atheist/Agnostic: ~20%
• Muslim: ~5%

Notable people from Bottrop

• Josef Albers (artist and mathematician)
• August Everding (opera director)
• Theo Jörgensmann (jazz musician and composer)
• Ludger Stratmann
• Ulla Kock am Brink
• Da Hool (DJ and music producer)

Kirchhellen

From 1919 until 1976 Kirchhellen was its own town. From 1976 until 1978 it was a part of "GlaBotKi"(Gladbeck, Bottrop, Kirchhellen). 1978 Kirchhellen would a part of Bottrop. The Kirchhellner were very angry and today they aren't happy about it yet.

Most of Kirchhellner are catholic (ca. 65%) - there are three churches their will be own on first of January in 2007. There is one Lutheran church (ca. 20% of the population is Lutheran and ca. 5% are Muslims). The rest is mostly without a religion.

Notable Locations

• Alpincenter - Indoor ski slope
• Tetraeder - a 60 m high Tetrahedron, placed on a 90 m slag heap
• Movie Park Germany - theme park (in Bottrop-Kirchhellen)
• Schloss Beck - castle turned into an amusement park (in Bottrop-Kirchhellen)

Twin towns

Bottrop is twinned with:

• Tourcoing (France), since 1967
• Blackpool (United Kingdom)
• Berlin-Mitte (Germany), since 1983 (first with Berlin-Wedding, which fusioned with Berlin-Tiergarten and Berlin-Mitte)
• Veszprém (Hungary), since 1987
• Merseburg, (Saxony-Anhalt,Germany), since 1989

Photos of Bottrop

Tetraeder

Steps Leading to Tetraeder

Steel Works Near Alpin Center

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Urban and rural districts in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany
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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