Hagen is the 37th big city in Germany, located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia. These are placed on the eastern edge of the Ruhr area - 15 km in the south of Dortmund.

In that place a streams, lakes, and wells throughout Lenne, Volme and Ennepe meet the flow of any stream Ruhr. A people is 202,000.

Hagen was foremost mentioned astir 800, a title of the domestic at the junctions of Volme & Ennepe. A incubation of the city began in the 19th century with the mining of coal and the production of steel in the Ruhr District. In the 20th century Hagen became a city by owning to a higher degree 100,000 indweller. In a city there exists a FernUni Hagen, the just German Open University, sustaining just about 56,000 students (2004/05), getting it the title big university in North Rhine-Westphalia.

History, political

History, economic
Owing to a extensive utilise of h2o power along a streams, lakes, & wells throughout Ruhr, Lenne, Volme & Ennepe, metallic processing played an significant role around the area of Hagen in and potentially prior to the 15th century.

In the 17th and 18th century, textile and steel industries when well as paper producing followed.

Localities

Dahl Emst Hohenlimburg Priorei (32,6 km² - 5.544 citizens) Rummenohl

Twinning
Hagen has been twinned by owning these towns: 1955 Elk in Poland (17.06.1955) - [http://www.elk.pl Homepage] 1960 Liévin in France - [http://www.ville-lievin.fr Homepage] 1963 Kouvola in Finland - [http://www.kouvola.fi Homepage] 1965 Montluçon in France - [http://www.mairie-montlucon.fr Homepage] 1967 Berlin-Steglitz/Zehlendorf in Germany - [http://www.berlin.de/ba-steglitz-zehlendorf/index.html Homepage] 1975 Bruck an der Mur in Austria (1974-1975 Hohenlimburg) - [http://www.bruckmur.at Homepage] 1985 Smolensk in Russia - [http://www.smolensk.ru Homepage] 1997 Modi'in in Israel - [http://www.modiin.net/ Homepage]

Personalities
Nena (* March 24, 1960) in Hagen), singer