Timeline of Dortmund explained

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Dortmund, Germany.

Prior to 19th century

• 1005 – Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor holds an "ecclesiastical council" in Dortmund.
• 1016 – Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor holds an "Imperial diet" in Dortmund.
• 1215 – consecrated.
• 1220 – Dortmund becomes an imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1240 – in use (approximate date).
• 1253 – Dortmund joins the .^[1]
• 1267 – St. Mary's Church first mentioned.
• 1270 – St. Reinold's Church built.
• 1293 – Brewing right granted.
• 1322 – St. Peter's Church, Dortmund (church) construction begins.
• 1332 – City rights confirmed per "Privilegium Ludovicum."
• 1387/8 – Dortmund besieged by forces of Friedrich III. von Saarwerden, Archbishop of Cologne.
• 1388 – Dortmunder Bürgerschützenverein (militia) formed.^[2]
• 1400 – Vehmic court established (approximate date).
• 1454 – Tower built on St. Reinold's Church.
• 1521 – "" altarpiece installed in the Petrikirche.
• 1523 – Protestant Reformation.
• 1543 – (school) founded.
• 1546 – Tower for the added to Town Hall.^[3]
• 1570 – Dortmund adopts Lutheranism per the "Augsburg Confession".
• 1609 – Jülich-Cleves-related signed in Dortmund.

19th century

• 1803 – Dormund "annexed to Nassau."
• 1806 – French in power.
• 1808 – Dormund becomes capital of French satellite Ruhr (department).
• 1815
  • Dortmund becomes part of Prussia per Congress of Vienna.
  • (regional mining office) headquartered in city.
• 1816 – Population: 4,465.
• 1841 – (bank) founded.^[4]
• 1847 – Duisburg–Dortmund railway and Dortmund–Hamm railway begin operating.
• 1849 – Elberfeld–Dortmund railway begins operating.
• 1855 – Dortmund–Soest railway begins operating.
• 1861
  • (shooting-sport club) formed.
  • Population: 23,348.^[5]
• 1863 – dismantled.
• 1871
  • Hoesch AG steel company in business.
  • Westfalenhütte industrial area developed.
• 1872 – (historical society) founded.^[6]
• 1875
  • Dortmund–Enschede railway in operation.
  • Population:57,742.
• 1878 – Ernst Heinrich Lindemann becomes mayor.
• 1880 – in use (approximate date).
• 1883 – Museum of Art and Cultural History founded.
• 1885 – Population: 78,435.^[7]
• 1887 – Dortmund Philharmonic orchestra formed.^[8]
• 1890
  • Royal School of Machine Building established.^[9]
  • Population: 89,663.^[10]
• 1895
  • Dortmund (regional postal administration) established.
  • Post office built.
  • Population: 111,232.^[11]
• 1897 – City electric power system begins operating.
• 1898 – Industrial School for Young Ladies and (sport club) established.
• 1899
  • Dortmund–Ems Canal and Dortmund Port open.
  • City Hall restored.
  • founded.
• 1900
  • Regional (Chamber of Skilled Crafts) headquartered in city.
  • Synagogue built.

20th century

1900s–1945

• 1901 – established.^[12]
• 1904
  • Theater Dortmund and trade school founded.
  • (tower) built.
• 1905 – Population: 175,577.^[13]
• 1909
  • Borussia Dortmund sport club formed.
  • Nordmarkt area laid out.
• 1910
  • Dortmund Hauptbahnhof built.
  • Population: 214,226.^[14]
• 1914 – Eving becomes part of city.
• 1919 – Population: 295,026.^[15]
• 1920
  • Regional municipal association created.
  • Population: 313,752.
• 1924 – Weisse Wiese stadium opens.
• 1926 – Botanischer Garten Rombergpark acquired by city.
• 1927 – Dortmund U-Tower built.
• 1928
  • becomes part of city.
  • Population: 465,196.
• 1929 – and Syburg become part of city.
• 1933 – mining company in business.
• 1938 – Dortberghaus built.
• 1939 – Nazi camp for Sinti and Romani people established (see also Porajmos).^[16]
• 1943
  • May: SS construction brigade (forced labour camp) established by the SS.^[17]
  • September: SS construction brigade presumably dissolved.^[17]
• 1944 – Subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp established for 400 Polish women who survived the Warsaw Uprising (see also Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).^[18]
• 1945
  • March: women's subcamp of Buchenwald dissolved. Prisoners deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.^[18]
  • 13 April: allied forces take city.

1946–1990s

• 1946
  • Fritz Henßler becomes mayor.
  • newspaper begins publication.^[19]
• 1947
  • 29 March: miners strike against food shortage.^[20]
  • Museum Ostwall opens.
• 1950 – Population: 507,349.
• 1952 – Westfalenhallen rebuilt.
• 1953 – Dortmund Zoo established.^[21]
• 1955 – City co-hosts the 1955 Ice Hockey World Championships.
• 1956 – Population: 607,885.
• 1959
  • Florianturm (TV tower) erected.
  • National Bundesgartenschau (garden show) held in the Westfalenpark.
  • City hosts the 1959 World Table Tennis Championships.
• 1960 – Dortmund Airport opens.
• 1961 – built.
• 1963 – Dortmund Stadthaus station opens.
• 1964 – City hosts the 1964 World Figure Skating Championships.
• 1968 – University of Dortmund established.
• 1969 – hi-rise built.
• 1973
  • Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting begins.
  • becomes mayor.
• 1974 – Westfalenstadion (stadium) opens.
• 1975 – City co-hosts the 1975 Ice Hockey World Championships.
• 1976 – established.
• 1977 – Eving Selimiye Camii (mosque) established.
• 1978 – built.
• 1980 – City hosts the 1980 World Figure Skating Championships.
• 1983
  • Dortmund University station opens.
  • (insurance entity) active.
• 1984 – Dortmund Stadtbahn begins operating.
• 1985
  • opens.
  • (casino) built.
• 1987 – Coalmining pit closes, "marking the end of more than 150 years of coalmining in Dortmund".
• 1989 – rebuilt on the .
• 1990 – Eisengiesser Fountain reconstructed on the .
• 1991 – Steel company Hoesch AG was bought by Krupp.^[22]
• 1992 – (tower) reconstructed.
• 1993 – museum established.
• 1999
  • becomes mayor.
  • (trade school) active.

21st century

• 2005
  • built.
  • opens.
• 2006 - June: Some of the 2006 FIFA World Cup soccer contest held in Dortmund.
• 2008 - Love Parade held in city.
• 2014
  • Ullrich Sierau becomes mayor.
  • Population: 580,511.

See also

• Dortmund history
  • • (in German) includes list of mayors
• Timelines of other cities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia:^(de) Aachen, Bonn, Cologne, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Essen, Münster

References

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

• Book: Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t7br92q5g?urlappend=%3Bseq=72. Dortmund. . Chambers's Encyclopaedia. 2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t7br92q5g?urlappend=%3Bseq=72.
  • Dortmund . 8 . 437 . 1910 . . 1.
• A Tale of Three Cities: Electrification and the Structure of Choice in the Ruhr, 1886-1900. Edmund N. Todd. Social Studies of Science . 17. 3. 387–412. 1987. 285130. 10.1177/030631287017003001. 145435566. . (about Bochum, Dortmund, and Essen)
• Book: Walter B. Stöhr. Global Challenge and Local Response: Initiatives for Economic Regeneration in Contemporary Europe. 1990. United Nations University Press. 978-0-7201-2064-6. Priority to local economic development: industrial restructuring and local development responses in the Ruhr area - the case of Dortmund. G. Hennings . K.R. Kunzmann . amp . .
• Book: Trudy Ring. Northern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places. 1995. Fitzroy Dearborn. 978-1-136-63944-9. Dortmund. https://books.google.com/books?id=yfPYAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA215. 215+. .

in German

published in the 19th c.

• Book: Geschichte der Freireichsstadt Dortmund. Bernhard Thiersch.

  de:Bernhard Thiersch

  . 1854. de.
• Book: Beiträge zur Geschichte Dortmunds und der Grafschaft Mark . Contributions to the History of Dortmund and the County of Mark. Historischer Verein für Dortmund und die Grafschaft Mark. 1875. de. ongoing
• Book: Dortmunder Statuten und Urtheile . Dortmund statutes and judgments. Ferdinand Frensdorff.

  de:Ferdinand Frensdorff

  . Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses. Halle. de. 1882. .
• Book: . Leipzig . . de. Dortmund. 20. 1887. HathiTrust.
• Book: Städte und Gilden der germanischen Völker im Mittelalter. Karl von Hegel. de . Leipzig . . 1891. HathiTrust. 2. Dortmund. 2027/wu.89094689700?urlappend=%3Bseq=379. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89094689700?urlappend=%3Bseq=379. Karl von Hegel.
• Book: Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler des Kreises Dortmund-Stadt. Albert Ludorff.

  de:Albert Ludorff

  . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh. Münster. 1894. de.
• Book: Hermann Adalbert Daniel.

  de:Hermann Adalbert Daniel

  . Handbuch der Geographie. de. 1895. 6th . Leipzig. D.R. Reisland. Dortmund. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044014078935?urlappend=%3Bseq=362. 4. 2027/hvd.32044014078935?urlappend=%3Bseq=362.
• Book: Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon. Leipzig. Brockhaus. 1896. 14th. de. 456+. Dortmund. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101064064460?urlappend=%3Bseq=540. . Brockhaus Enzyklopädie. 2027/njp.32101064064460?urlappend=%3Bseq=540.
• Book: Dortmunder Bürgerbuch: Sammlung der Ortsstatuten, Polizei-Verordnungen, Regulative u.s.w. für die Stadt Dortmund. 1898. Dortmund. . de.

published in the 20th-21st c.

• Book: P. Krauss . E. Uetrecht. Meyers Deutscher Städteatlas . Meyer's Atlas of German Cities. 1913. Bibliographisches Institut. Leipzig. de. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009018394. Dortmund.
  • G. Luntowski and N. Reimann, ed., Dortmund 1100 Jahre Stadtgeschichte, (Dortmund, 1982)
• Gustav Luntowski et al. Geschichte der Stadt Dortmund. Harenberg, Dortmund 1994,
• Book: Dortmunder Statistik: 100 Jahre Statistisches Amt 1896-1996. Stadt Dortmund. 1996. de.
• Book: Hermann Bömer. Stadtentwicklung in Dortmund seit 1945 . Urban development in Dortmund since 1945. 2010. de. etal.

External links

• Europeana. Items related to Dortmund, various dates.
• Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Dortmund, various dates

Notes and References

1. Book: A Companion to the Hanseatic League. 2015. Brill . 978-90-04-28476-0 . Donald J. Harreld . Donald J. Harreld .
2. Book: Hermann Tallau . Ein Kaleidoskop zum Schützenwesen . 2008. Mecke Druck und Verlag . Duderstadt . 978-3-936617-85-6 . de . Älteste (100) Schützenvereinigungen 799-1392 . https://books.google.com/books?id=MnyAc2VzNXwC&pg=PA67 .
3. Web site: Stadtarchiv Dortmund: Wir über uns: Geschichte . de . Archive in Nordrhein-Westfalen . . 30 November 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923221135/http://www.archive.nrw.de/kommunalarchive/kommunalarchive_a-d/d/Dortmund/wir_ueber_uns/profil/index.php . 23 September 2015 .
4. Book: Statistisches Jahrbuch deutscher Städte . Statistical Yearbook of German Cities . Moritz Neefe . 1906 . 13 . . Breslau . de . 2027/mdp.39015010783606 .
5. Book: Statesman's Year-Book . 1869 . London . Macmillan and Co.. Germany: States of North Germany: Prussia . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081590337?urlappend=%3Bseq=155 . Statesman's Year-Book . 2027/nyp.33433081590337?urlappend=%3Bseq=155 .
6. Book: Königliche Museen zu Berlin . Kunsthandbuch für Deutschland . 6th . de . 1904. Georg Reimer.
7. Book: Statesman's Year-Book . 1890 . London . Macmillan and Co.. German Empire: States of Germany: Prussia . 2027/nyp.33433081590527?urlappend=%3Bseq=630 . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081590527?urlappend=%3Bseq=630 .
8. Book: Colin Lawson. Colin Lawson. Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra. 2003. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-00132-8 . Orchestras Founded in the 19th Century (chronological list) . https://books.google.com/books?id=1DW1WyiooSMC&pg=PA275 .
9. Book: U.S. Bureau of Education . Report of the Commissioner of Education . 1910. U.S. Government Printing Office . Prussian system of vocational schools from 1884 to 1909 . https://books.google.com/books?id=kFI6AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA301 . 2027/umn.31951000865102o . U.S. Office of Education .
10. Book: Statesman's Year-Book . 1896 . London . Macmillan and Co.. German Empire: States of Germany: Prussia . 2027/nyp.33433081590543?urlappend=%3Bseq=672 . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081590543?urlappend=%3Bseq=672 .
11. Book: Statesman's Year-Book . 1899 . London . Macmillan and Co.. German Empire . 2027/nyp.33433081590550?urlappend=%3Bseq=936 . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081590550?urlappend=%3Bseq=936 . HathiTrust .
12. Web site: Feuerwehr: Über uns: Historie (timeline) . Dortmund.de . Stadt Dortmund . 30 November 2015 .
13. Book: Statesman's Year-Book . 1908 . London . Macmillan and Co.. Germany . 2027/nyp.33433081590592?urlappend=%3Bseq=1128 . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081590592?urlappend=%3Bseq=1128 .
14. Book: Statesman's Year-Book . 1915 . London . Macmillan and Co.. Germany . 2027/njp.32101072368358?urlappend=%3Bseq=1017 . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101072368358?urlappend=%3Bseq=1017 .
15. Book: Statesman's Year-Book . 1921 . London . Macmillan and Co.. Germany . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=972 . HathiTrust . Statesman's Year-Book . 2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=972 .
16. Web site: Lager für Sinti und Roma Dortmund. Bundesarchiv.de. 8 August 2022. de.
17. Web site: Dortmund (III. SS-Baubrigade). aussenlager-buchenwald.de. 8 August 2022. de.
18. Web site: Dortmund (Hüttenverein). aussenlager-buchenwald.de. 8 August 2022. de.
19. Web site: Dortmund (Germany) Newspapers . USA . . . 30 October 2015 .
20. Chronology of International Events and Documents . 3 . 7 . 189–201 . 1947 . March 24-April 6, 1947 . . London . 40545021 .
21. Book: Vernon N. Kisling. Zoo and Aquarium History. 2000. . USA . 978-1-4200-3924-5 . Zoological Gardens of Germany (chronological list) . https://books.google.com/books?id=dxTrR5nOE0UC&pg=PA372 .
22. https://www.zeit.de/1992/36/ein-mythos-verblasst Zeit.de: Ein Mythos verblasst