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13-458: The former independent settlement of Dahl, consisting of Dahl , Priorei and Rummenohl, was incorporated in 1970 into the town of Breckerfeld in the district ( Kreis ) of Ennepe-Ruhr . In 1975, the Parliament of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia decided to transfer it to the metropolitan district of Hagen . Rummenohl has for centuries been a centre of ironworking, using the power of

26-590: A factory in Rummenohl to manufacture dynamite . On 5 June 1910 it was struck by lightning and exploded. Beginning in 1908, gunpowder was manufactured in the valley of the Sterbecke , which flows into the Volme in Rummenohl. In peacetime, 100 people worked there; during World War I , the number rose to over 2,000. In wartime, the factory primarily produced landmines , cartridges and charges for grenades ; after

39-592: A location in Dahl is a 1050 deed of gift to Werden Abbey mentioning the estate of Rumenscetha (Rumscheid) and its owner, Aeluekin. In the late Middle Ages, a knightly manor of 'the Lord of Dael' is mentioned. Together with the stone church built in the second half of the 13th century, which is perhaps the oldest remaining building in the Volme valley, the site of this manor forms the centre of today's Dahl. The manor house and

52-639: A mill, and 32 smallholdings and farms on both sides of the River Volme. In the course of increasing industrialisation and the associated economic expansion, in 1844–47 the country road in the Volme valley was expanded, and around 1850 a stone bridge was built across the river to accommodate the increased traffic. In 1874 the Volmetal-Bahn railway line opened between Hagen and Brügge in Lüdenscheid , which considerably sped up transport of

65-654: Is a locality within the independent city of Hagen in the southeastern Ruhr , in Germany . It was incorporated into Hagen in 1975 together with Rummenohl and Priorei . The remains of an old hill fort , Ambrock, have been found under a farm in Dahl (previously in Delstern ), the Ribberthof (formerly Unter-Ambrock; the farm was renamed in the 19th century to honor the chief donor to the Ambrock Clinic, which

78-499: Is located on the grounds of the former Ober-Ambrock farm). This indicates that it was a fortified encampment sometime in pre- Carolingian times, that is, prior to the 9th century. Two archaeological digs have not uncovered enough finds for a definite dating, but uninterpreted runic inscriptions found in material re-used for the construction of the farm indicate great age. The two estates of Ober- and Unter-Ambrock are mentioned in early mediaeval sources. The earliest written mention of

91-558: Is the Ennepe . The Volme rises at 480 metres (1,570 ft) above sea level in the southeastern part of the Ruhr region , southeast of the town Meinerzhagen . It flows through the municipalities of Meinerzhagen, Kierspe , Halver (Oberbrügge), Lüdenscheid (Brügge), Schalksmühle and Hagen and empties into the Ruhr at 91 m (299 ft) above sea level. In the city of Hagen, the Volme

104-539: The church were both in large part destroyed by a catastrophic fire on 17 September 1729. After 1817, Dahl was an independent settlement, with its own mayor, within the district of Breckerfeld , but by order of the government of the Kingdom of Prussia was administratively subordinate to the district ( Kreis ) of Hagen. In 1823, Felix Gerstein, the local governor, had a residence built in classical style , Haus Dahl. The estate included 1,600 acres (6.5 km ) of land,

117-485: The metropolitan district of Hagen . 51°18′17″N 7°31′55″E  /  51.30472°N 7.53194°E  / 51.30472; 7.53194 Volme The Volme is a river in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany , and is a tributary of the river Ruhr . It is 50.5 kilometres (31.4 mi) long, of which about 21 km (13 mi) lie within the city limits of Hagen . Its largest tributary

130-542: The raw materials needed by industry, wood and iron ore (from the Siegerland ) into the Ruhr and to the small ironworking shops in the valleys near the Volme. In 1970 the former independent settlement of Dahl, consisting of Dahl, Priorei and Rummenohl , was incorporated into the town of Breckerfeld in the Kreis of Ennepe-Ruhr . In 1975, the Parliament of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia decided to transfer it to

143-402: The river Volme to process iron ore from the Siegerland . The opening on 16 March 1874 of the single-track Volmetalbahn , which made a connection for goods traffic to Brügge ( Lüdenscheid ) and beyond that to Meinerzhagen , improved its integration into the developing Ruhr . Goods traffic to Lüdenscheid via Brügge was discontinued in early 1996. In the early 1870s, Alfred Nobel founded

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156-492: The war, it once more produced explosives for road construction and mining. A spur railway connected the distant factory on the heights near Selkinghausen to the Volmetal-Bahn railway line, negotiating the difference in height by means of several switchbacks. Beginning in 1926, the factory was gradually closed down. After World War II , the buildings served as accommodations for bombing victims and refugees. The building

169-491: Was torn down in the 1960s in the course of construction of the A45 Autobahn . In 1918, a new church was built. The grain mill and former smithy at Krummewiese, on the northern edge of Rummenohl, which had been in operation since 1824, was shut down in 1952. 51°16′42″N 7°31′44″E  /  51.27833°N 7.52889°E  / 51.27833; 7.52889 Hagen-Dahl Dahl , now officially Hagen-Dahl ,

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