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38-459: It offers a total of about 52 bachelor and master courses in the fields of Engineering, Natural Sciences, Information Technology, Business management and Agriculture. It offers courses for both full-time students and for those in employment. It also accommodates those who wish to combine vocational training with studies. The oldest forerunner of the university was the trade school in Hagen , founded by

76-551: A house was announced. A history teacher revealed a painted portrait of Adolf Hitler and medals decorated with eagles and swastikas , a newspaper from 1945, a pistol, gas masks , brass knuckles , and stacks of documents. It is also found out that the house once served as the headquarters of the Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt . In April 1945, the US Army liberated the city, which

114-574: A link between Art Nouveau and Modernism ( Hagener Impul ). The centrepiece of this initiative was the Folkwang Museum and the (only partially built) garden city of Hohenhagen ( Gartenstadt Hohenhagen ). In reaction to the Kapp Putsch in March 1920, when rightists tried to overthrow the elected government and set up an authoritarian regime, tens of thousands of leftist workers in

152-570: A mother tongue other than German. At 12.1% (8.4% for Germans and 28.1% for foreigners), the unemployment rate in October 2022 was above the north rhine-westphalian average of 7.7%. The following table shows the largest foreign resident groups in the city of Hagen. Part of the Hagen – Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis I constituency for elections to the Bundestag Solutional cave A solutional cave , solution cave , or karst cave

190-533: A so-called Großstadt in 1928, when the population exceeded the 100,000 mark. In 1964, the population passed the 200,000 mark. The city had its highest population after the municipal reorganisation in 1975 with 231,840 inhabitants. Since December 2005, the city has been permanently below the 200,000 population mark (according to the city administration), while the North Rhine-Westphalia State Office for Data Processing and Statistics

228-502: A solutional cave that are below the water table or the local level of the groundwater are flooded. The largest and most abundant solutional caves are located in limestone. Limestone caves are often adorned with calcium carbonate formations produced through slow precipitation. These include flowstones , stalactites , stalagmites , helictites , soda straws , calcite rafts , and columns . These secondary mineral deposits in caves are called " speleothems ". Limestone dissolves under

266-541: A subsidiary in Lüdenscheid . The university strongly believes in small classes and personal support. The university is known for its student friendly environment. Main areas of research include Hagen Hagen ( German pronunciation: [ˈhaːɡn̩] ) is a city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany , on the southeastern edge of the Ruhr area , 15 km south of Dortmund , where

304-468: Is a cave usually formed in the soluble rock limestone . It is the most frequently occurring type of cave. It can also form in other rocks , including chalk , dolomite , marble , salt beds , and gypsum . Bedrock is dissolved by natural acid in groundwater that seeps through bedding planes , faults , joints , and the like. Over geological epochs, these openings expand as the walls are dissolved to become caves or cave systems. The portions of

342-501: Is considered an important site for the discovery of fossilised insects and other fossils, including early large dragonflies with wingspans of 40 cm, extinct primordial web-footed butterflies and giant centipedes and millipedes from the Upper Carboniferous period. The Hagen-Vorhalle quarry is considered a geotope of global importance for palaeontological research. Finds from the quarry and from the entire region can be seen in

380-437: Is heavily indebted and in the process of cutting city services in order to balance its budget. The city has capitalized on the export of a wide variety of breads, most notably Hagenschmagenbrot , a traditional dark bread. One of the five branches of South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences is located in the city (also: Fachhochschule Südwestfalen (FH SWF)), which offers various engineering programmes. This institution

418-491: Is in 41st place behind Kassel and ahead of Hamm . The proportion of under 20-year-olds in Hagen in 2023 was 20.3%, while the proportion of people aged 60 and over was 28.8%. The proportion of the foreign population in Hagen in 2023 was 23.9%. In 2021, 34.1% of the Hagen population had a migration background. In March 2021, 41.7% of children in daycare centres had a migrant background and 43.2% of children in daycare centres had

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456-634: The County of Mark . After the Treaty of Xanten in 1614, it was granted to the Margraviate of Brandenburg , which became part of the newly founded Kingdom of Prussia in 1701. A major fire destroyed a significant part of Hagen's buildings in 1724. With the help of the Prussian state administration, Hagen was rebuilt within a short time. Hagen was granted town privileges on 3 September 1746. After

494-709: The Cretaceous , Tertiary and Holocene periods have been preserved in karst caves in the mass limestone . Other fossil sites with animal and plant remains from the Palaeozoic to the Mesozoic have also made important contributions to geoscientific research. In the area around Hagen, for example, the bones of land dinosaurs and early mammals as well as plant remains from the Lower Cretaceous period were found. The former Hagen-Vorhalle brickworks quarry

532-768: The Lorsch Annals ( Latin : Annales Laureshamenses ): In 775, Charlemagne 's troops conquered the Saxon Hohensyburg (then called Sigiburg ) castle located near the city limits of Dortmund above the Ruhr-Lenne estuary. Hagen itself was first mentioned around the year 1200, and is presumed to have been the name of a farm at the confluence of the Volme and the Ennepe rivers. After the conquest of Burg Volmarstein  [ de ] in 1324, Hagen passed to

570-542: The city museum and Werdringen castle. In the Blätterhöhle cave in Hagen, the oldest fossils of modern people in Westphalia and the Ruhr were found. Some date to the early Mesolithic , 10,700 years B.C.E. It seems that the descendants of Mesolithic people in this area maintained a foraging lifestyle for more than 2000 years after the arrival of farming societies. Quarters/localities of Hagen: Hagen became

608-591: The district of Unna , 56.6 km to the Ennepe-Ruhr district and 20.8 km to the Märkisch district . The area of the city (160.36 km²) is roughly the size of the Principality of Liechtenstein . 42 per cent of Hagen's municipal area consists of forest. The four rivers in Hagen stretch over a length of 52.2 km: Ruhr 11.5 km, Lenne 13.1 km, Volme 21.3 km and Ennepe 6.3 km. The difference in altitude from

646-557: The 17th and 18th centuries, textile and steel industries, as well as paper production were developed here. In the early 21st century, Hagen is the home of the Suedwestfaelische Industrie- und Handelskammer, as well as Sparkasse Hagen , the local public savings bank . The bank's former headquarters, the Sparkasse Hagen Tower , was a regional landmark until its demolition in 2004. The city

684-483: The 19th century, the city developed into the main centre for the entire region south of the river Ruhr . In 1887, Hagen was administratively separated from the district of Hagen and became an independent city ( urban district ). In the years following the turn of the century, the banker and patron Karl Ernst Osthaus brought many later important architects to the city, including Henry van de Velde , Peter Behrens and Walter Gropius . They established Hagen's reputation as

722-754: The Museum of Prehistory and Early History in Werdringen moated castle. In a side valley of the Lenne near Holthausen, the remains of Stone Age people were discovered in the ‘Blätterhöhle’ cave. With a C14 age of up to 11,300 years, they date from the beginning of the Mesolithic period. This makes them the oldest evidence to date of anatomically modern humans in the post-glacial period on the European continent. The Hagen region first appears in historical records in

760-711: The Prussian reform politician Beuth on 1 December 1824, for the qualification for the Berlin Royal Technical Institute, which later became the State Engineering School for Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering, and then the Märkische Fachhochschule, based in Iserlohn and the two locations Iserlohn and Hagen. The Fachhochschule was founded on January 1, 2002, when the entire university education

798-518: The Ruhr Valley, Germany's most important industrial area, used the opportunity for a revolutionary uprising from the Left. In the Ruhr uprising of 13 March – 2 April 1920, the 50,000-man Ruhr Red Army took control of the industrial district. Government and paramilitary forces were ordered against the workers, suppressing the uprising, and killing an estimated 1,000 workers. A memorial to

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836-576: The Second World War and National Socialism in Hagen: more than 2,200 people died in Allied bombing raids between 1940 and 1945. Over 10,000 Hagen citizens died on the various fronts of the Second World War. Dozens of Hagen citizens were murdered in concentration camps and prisons for racial, religious, ideological and political reasons. In August 2021, discovery of a cache of Nazi artifacts from

874-754: The action of rainwater and groundwater charged with H 2 CO 3 ( carbonic acid ) and naturally occurring organic acids . The dissolution process produces a distinctive landform known as " karst ", characterized by sinkholes and underground drainage. Solutional caves in this landform—topography are often called karst caves. Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico and nearby Carlsbad Caverns are now believed to be examples of another type of solutional cave. They were formed by H 2 S ( hydrogen sulfide ) gas rising from below, where reservoirs of petroleum give off sulfurous fumes. This gas mixes with ground water and forms H 2 SO 4 ( sulfuric acid ). The acid then dissolves

912-458: The city centre was opened in the 1970s. In the early 1980s, Hagen made a name for itself as the ‘Liverpool of New German Wave (Neue Deutsche Welle) ’. Many well-known musicians and bands of this musical genre (including Nena , Extrabreit and the sisters Annette and Inga Humpe ) have their roots in Hagen. Economically, Hagen came under renewed pressure in the 1990s due to increasing globalisation. A further wave of deindustrialisation began in

950-410: The construction of the new town hall on the riverside. In mid-July 2021, Hagen was affected by a flood disaster caused by heavy rainfall. In particular, damage was caused in the Volme valley and Hohenlimburg. 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

988-685: The course of industrialisation, Hagen was connected to the network of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahngesellschaft in 1848 and developed into an important railway junction. By 1865, Hagen had overtaken Iserlohn, which had previously been the leading town in South Westphalia in terms of population and economic power. During the German Empire from 1871 to 1914, Hagen experienced a period of prosperity. Through urbanisation and industrialisation of

1026-607: The defeat of Prussia in the Fourth Coalition , Hagen was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Berg founded by France from 1807 to 1813. It became part of the new Prussian province of Westphalia after the Congress of Vienna in 1815. From 1817, Hagen was the seat of an office and a district within the administrative district of Arnsberg. In 1837, the revised town regulations and a magistrate were introduced. In

1064-615: The lowest point on the Ruhr near Vorhalle (86 metres above sea level) to the highest point east of Bölling ♁51° 18′ N, 7° 34′ E (438 metres above sea level) is 352 metres. Since the early 19th century, the Hagen area has been regarded as a classic discovery region for palaeontology and archaeology There are various rocks and deposits from the Devonian to the Carboniferous in the municipal area. Marine and terrestrial deposits from

1102-549: The rivers Lenne and Volme meet the Ruhr . In 2023, the population was 197,677. The city is home to the FernUniversität Hagen (University of Hagen), the only state-funded distance education university in Germany. The largest extension of Hagen's municipal area is 17.1 km in a north-south direction and 15.5 km in a west-east direction. The city boundary of 89.7 km is made up of 3.3 km to Dortmund, 9 km to

1140-463: The steel sector, while Hagen's population declined at the same time. Hagen's debt level was €1.383 billion on 31 December 2012. Since the 2000s, major new construction and renovation projects have been realised that have significantly shaped Hagen's cityscape today. Examples include the Volme- and Rathaus-Galerie, the redesign of Friedrich-Ebert-Platz and the station forecourt (Berliner Platz) as well as

1178-665: The uprising was installed in Hagen. By 1928, Hagen had developed into a city of more than 100,000 inhabitants. During World War II , Hagen was bombed repeatedly, by both the Royal Air Force and the United States Eighth Air Force . On the night of 1 October 1943, 243 Lancasters and 8 Mosquitoes from the Royal Air Force 's Bomber Command attacked the city. According to the Bomber Command Campaign Diary, "This raid

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1216-410: The wake of the steel crisis . Hasper Hütte was completely shut down between 1972 and 1982, Gussstahlwerke Wittmann went bankrupt and two of the three plants of Stahlwerke Südwestfalen were closed. Further job losses affected the food industry with the breweries Bettermann and Andreas, the confectionery manufacturers Villosa and Grothe and the production plant of Zwieback Brandt . The pedestrian zone in

1254-426: Was a complete success achieved on a completely cloud-covered target of small size, with only a moderate bomber effort and at trifling cost." Hagen sustained severe damage from that raid, and hundreds of civilians were killed . After the war, the city centre was almost completely destroyed, so that only the surrounding districts still partially reflect the city's Wilhelminian architectural character . The victims of

1292-430: Was already assuming a population of just 196,934 at that time. The population reached a low point in 2012 with 187,810 people, since then it has been increasing again. In 2021, the balance of inflows and outflows was +592 (-1,112 for Germans and +1,704 for foreigners). On 31 December 2023, the population was 197,677, including 150,505 Germans and 47,172 foreigners. In the ranking of cities in Germany by population, Hagen

1330-673: Was disbanded in North Rhine-Westphalia and the Märkische Fachhochschule with the Fachhochschulabschaltungen Meschede and Soest of the former Gesamthochschule Paderborn was united as an equal partner. Seat of the Fachhochschule is Iserlohn. The founding rector was Michael Teusner from 1 January 2002 to 31 August 2004. From 1 September 2004 to the end of 2008 Jörg Liese was rector of the university. On 9 December 2008 Claus Schuster

1368-799: Was elected as the first president of the University of Applied Sciences Südwestfalen by the University Council, confirmed by the Senate of the university. After a reform by the Senate, the university management was renamed the Rectorate and Claus Schuster was elected Rector of the university on 9 December 2014. The Fachhochschule Südwestfalen and its predecessors The South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences has four campuses located in Iserlohn (seat), Hagen , Meschede and Soest and

1406-544: Was founded in the city in 1824. Hagen is home to the LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen , or Hagen Westphalian Open-Air Museum , a collection of historic industrial facilities. Trades such as printing, brewing, smithing, milling, and many others are represented, not only with static displays, but as living, working operations that visitors may in some cases participate in. It is located near the Hagen community of Eilpe . The Historisches Centrum Hagen includes

1444-558: Was later part of the British occupation zone . In August 1948, Hagen was included in the new state of North Rhine-Westphalia and soon became part of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, also known as West Germany ), founded in 1949. In the 1950s and 1960s, Hagen experienced another stormy growth and mainly elted into the flatter, northern plain. At the beginning of the 1970s, the decline of heavy industry in Hagen began in

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