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21-684: Dülmen is situated in the south part of the Münsterland area, between the Lippe river to the south, the Baumberge hills to the north and the Ems river to the east. South of Dülmen the Ruhr area is located. After the local government reforms of 1975 Dülmen consists of the 7 subdivisions Dülmen, Kirchspiel, Buldern, Hausdülmen, Hiddingsel, Merfeld and Rorup. Merfeld was first mentioned in 890. It became

42-466: A continuous rail link between Cologne and Vienna . In modern times the trunk line is no longer a continuous main line. The section between Duisburg and Dortmund is not a regular route for long-distance trains; instead through trains run on the more central Witten/Dortmund–Oberhausen/Duisburg line of the former Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company . The line is now treated as four different lines as set out below with their current significance in terms of

63-539: A part of Dülmen in 1975. It is known for its herd of Dülmen Ponies . Rorup was first mentioned in 1050 and became a district of Dülmen in 1975. The place was first mentioned as Dulmenni in 889, as a property of Werden Abbey . Dülmen received town privileges in 1311. It joined the Hanseatic League in 1470. It was part of the Prince-Bishopric of Münster until it was mediatised in 1803. After

84-626: A railway network in Germany, published in 1833. In fact, Friedrich Harkort (“father of the Ruhr”) had proposed the construction of a railway line from Cologne to Minden in 1825. On 18 December 1843, the CME was awarded the concession to build a railway line between the metropolis of Cologne , the cities of the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area and Minden to connect with the network of

105-798: A short period in the hands of the House of Croÿ , and later part of the Duchy of Arenberg , it was taken by the French in 1811. After the defeat of Napoleon, it became part of the Prussian Province of Westphalia . The Dülmen oil plant was a target of the Oil Campaign of World War II : 90% of the city was destroyed and the city was rebuilt after the war. In 1973, the population reached 20,000. In 1975, Rorup, Merfeld, Hiddingsel, Buldern, Hausdülmen and Kirchspiel Dülmen became part of Dülmen. Dülmen

126-409: A suburb of Cologne) further north through Mülheim am Rhein , Düsseldorf , Duisburg , Oberhausen , Altenessen , Gelsenkirchen , Wanne , Herne and Castrop-Rauxel to Dortmund and on to Hamm , Oelde , Rheda , Bielefeld and Herford to Minden . The first leg from Deutz to Düsseldorf opened on 20 December 1845. Only a few weeks later, on 9 February 1846, the second section was completed to

147-616: A temporary terminus at the site of present-day Duisburg Hauptbahnhof called the Duisburg Cologne-Minden station , the first of three stations built on the same site. The next section from Duisburg to Hamm was opened on 15 May 1847. On 15 October 1847, the last section was opened to Minden, thus completing the entire 263 kilometre long, single track railway. The line with the Schildesche viaduct and other engineering structures were designed for eventual duplication. On

168-1051: Is twinned with: Dülmen can accessed by the A43 . Dülmen station is on the Essen–Wanne Eickel–Münster line , which was built by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company , and the Dortmund–Enschede railway , which was built by the Dortmund-Gronau-Enschede Railway Company and links Dortmund and Gronau . The nearest airports are the Münster-Osnabrück Airport in Greven and the Düsseldorf Airport . Lippe (river) The Lippe ( German pronunciation: [ˈlɪpə] )

189-670: Is a river in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany . It is a right tributary of the Rhine and 220.3 km (136.9 mi) in length with an elevation difference of 125 metres and a catchment area of 4.890 km². The source is located at the edge of the Teutoburg Forest in Bad Lippspringe close to the city of Paderborn . It runs westward through Paderborn, Lippstadt and then along the northern edge of

210-687: The Royal Hanoverian State Railways . A route through the Bergisches Land had been dropped was due to the high cost of the engineering structures that would have been required on the advice of the Aachen merchant and banker David Hansemann (1790-1864), who was then briefly Prussian Minister of Finance. Instead, the chosen route that bypassed the Bergisches Landran was selected. It ran from Deutz (now

231-649: The Ruhr area , parallel to the river Emscher and river Ruhr . The river finally enters the Rhine at Wesel . The river Lippe has been used as an infrastructure in Roman times. For the Romans the river (named Lupia ) was a gateway to Germania, running from the river Rhine to the region around Paderborn. The watercourse was used for transport of supplies, so along the banks of the Lippe many former Roman camps could be found. In

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252-589: The Wasserverband Westdeutsche Kanäle . Until the 1970s water pollution played no important role in the public debate but the environmental policy changed over the decades. Environmental standards on national level and especially from the EU have been leading to enormous efforts to improve the natural standards and today a couple of positive developments can be stated, like new FFH (Flora Fauna Habitat) sites and governmental initiatives around

273-799: The Lippe tributaries and the Lippe itself; therefore first in 1913 the Sesekegenossenschaft and later in 1926 the Lippeverband (“Wasserwirtschaftsverbände”) were established as water boards. Since 1914 the Datteln-Hamm Canal and 1930 the Wesel-Datteln Canal are located in parallel to the Lippe which is not navigable for mass transportation. The canals receive Lippe water or feed the Lippe (to improve dry weather flow) from an exchange facility in Hamm, operated by

294-548: The Lupia River was fought in 11 BCE between Nero Claudius Drusus and the Sicambri (Sugambri). Today, the river appears as a two-tier water course: Upstream, eastward of the city of Hamm, the catchment is more rural. Downstream of Hamm settlements and industrial impacts characterize the situation. Though the Lippe was partly navigable from 1820 on it was not sufficient for the transport of industrial goods. Historically,

315-465: The WFD (Water Framework Directive). The main tributaries of the Lippe are (from source to mouth): Cologne-Minden trunk line The Cologne-Minden trunk line is a railway built by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company ( Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , CME). The line is the westernmost part of the railway line from Berlin to the Rhine that was proposed by Friedrich List in his Concept for

336-466: The last 200 years many of these camps have been identified, above all the camp in Haltern which is likely to be the former headquarter of the imperial prince Tiberius. The distance between the camps is about a one-day walk for the troops, which is almost 30 km (20 mi). Today's identified Roman camps are: Olfen , Xanten, Haltern, Oberaden, Holsterhausen, Anreppen and Beckinghausen. The Battle of

357-562: The middle of the 19th century in the Emscher catchment area developed in the following decades direction north and so to the Lippe catchment area. From the 1860s onwards the first problems of mining subsidence and drainage of polluted water appeared. The historical city of Hamm and the towns Lünen , Haltern and Dorsten were small settlements located at the Lippe but expanded with the establishment of hard coal mines starting around 1900. The industrialization caused huge water quality problems in

378-474: The preconditions for a change of the landscape started with the construction of the Cologne-Minden trunk line in the 1840s that connected the river Rhine settlements like Cologne with harbours and trade at the river Weser and so with the Lippe town Hamm , too. Moreover, this railway supported the coal and steel industry development in the northern Ruhr region. The hard coal mining that started in

399-584: The previous few years, created a continuous rail link from the Rhine via Brunswick , Oschersleben , Magdeburg , Dresden and Wrocław to the Vistula river. The lines from Berlin to Magdeburg and Wrocław were opened in the previous year, but until 1851 there was no rail connection between the various railway stations in Berlin. With the opening of a connecting line between the Wrocław stations on 3 February 1848, it

420-837: The same day as its line opened to Minden, the Royal Hanoverian State Railways opened its Hanover–Minden line . On 1 September 1847 the Saxon-Silesian Railway Company opened a line connecting Görlitz with a branch of the Lower Silesian-Markish Railway . On 18 October 1847 the Upper Silesian Railway reached the border station of Mysłowice . On 13 October 1847 Kraków-Upper Silesian Railway opened. The opening of several hundred kilometres of railway lines in September and October 1847 together with other lines opened in

441-874: Was connected to the Upper Silesian Railway and the Kraków–Upper Silesian railway, creating a continuous rail link from Deutz to Kraków . Less than a year later on 1 September 1848, the William Railway ( Wilhelmsbahn ) was opened from Koźle to Bohumín (now in the Czech Republic , then in the Austrian Empire ), closing the gap between the Upper Silesian Railway and the Austrian Northern Railway , which had opened to Bohumín on 1 April 1847. This created

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