Bottrop
Sign in to savethumb|Altmarkt in the city thumb|St. Cyriacus's Church (Catholic) thumb|St. Martin's Church (Protestant) Mine: Bergwerk Prosper 2|thumb thumb|Tetrahedron landmark Bottrop () 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, was chartered as a city in 1921, and bombed duri
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Bottrop is a city in Germany's Ruhr industrial region that developed as a coal-mining and rail center starting in the 1860s and was officially chartered as a city in 1921. Today it remains an industrial hub producing chemicals, textiles, machinery, and coal-tar derivatives, located on the Rhine–Herne Canal in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Key facts
- German location.type
- City
- German location.image_caption
- Church St. Peter and Paul in Bochum
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Bottrop COA.svg
- German location.image_flag
- Flagge der Stadt Bottrop.svg
- German location.state
- Nordrhein-Westfalen
- German location.region
- Münster
- German location.district
- urban
- German location.elevation
- 60
- German location.area
- 100.7
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 05512000
- German location.postal_code
- 46236–46244
- German location.area_code
- 02041, 02045
Article
14 sectionsContents
- Boroughs
- Kirchhellen
- Politics
- Mayor
- City council
- Culture and attractions
- Theaters, museums, and buildings
- Attractions
- Periodic events
- Religion
- Notable people
- Twin towns – sister cities
- References
- External links
thumb|Altmarkt in the city thumb|St. Cyriacus's Church (Catholic) thumb|St. Martin's Church (Protestant) Mine: Bergwerk Prosper 2|thumb thumb|Tetrahedron landmark Bottrop () 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, was chartered as a city in 1921, and bombed during the Oil Campaign of World War II. In 1975, it unified with the neighbouring communities of Gladbeck and Kirchhellen, but Gladbeck left it in 1976, leading to Kirchhellen becoming a district of Bottrop as Bottrop-Kirchhellen. It is also twinned with Blackpool, England.
==Boroughs== The total area of the municipal territory is about . The longest north-south distance is , and from west to east . The highest peak within the city's territory is , the lowest one being above sea level.