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Bottrop
Coat of arms	Location
Administration
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region	Münster
District	Urban district
Mayor	Peter Noetzel (SPD)
Basic statistics
Area	100.7 km² (38.9 sq mi)
Elevation	60 m  (197 ft)
Population	118,975  (31/12/2006)Landesamt für Statistik
- Density	1,181 /km² (3,060 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	BOT
Postal codes	46236–46244
Area codes	02041, 02045
Website	bottrop.de Coordinates: 51°31′29″N 06°55′22″E / 51.52472, 6.92278

Bottrop (help·info) (IPA: [ˈbɔtʁɔp]) is a city in west central Germany, on the Rhine-Herne Canal, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Located in the Ruhr industrial area, Bottrop adjoins Essen, Oberhausen, Gladbeck and Dorsten. The city had been a coal-mining and rail center and contains factories producing coal-tar derivatives, chemicals, textiles, and machinery. Bottrop grew as a mining center beginning in the 1860s and was chartered as a city in 1921. In 1975 it unified with the neighbour communities of Gladbeck and Kirchhellen, but Gladbeck left it in 1976, leading to Kirchhellen becoming a district of Bottrop as Bottrop-Kirchhellen.

Bottrop has the longest stretch of autobahn without junctions which is often used for testing vehicles at high speed, and is home to the famous Mercedes-Benz tuning company. Brabus.

Contents 1 Religious Demographics & Churches 2 Notable people from Bottrop 3 Kirchhellen 4 Notable Locations 5 Twin towns 6 Photos of Bottrop

• Catholic: ~50% (19 churches)
• Protestant (Lutheran): ~20% (8 churches)
• Atheist/Agnostic: ~20%
• Muslim: ~5%

• Josef Albers (artist and mathematician)
• August Everding (opera director)
• Theo Jörgensmann (jazz musician and composer)
• Ludger Stratmann
• Ulla Kock am Brink
• Da Hool (DJ and music producer)

From 1919 until 1976 Kirchhellen was its own town. From 1976 until 1978 it was a part of "GlaBotKi"(Gladbeck, Bottrop, Kirchhellen). 1978 Kirchhellen would a part of Bottrop. The Kirchhellner were very angry and today they aren't happy about it yet.

Most of Kirchhellner are catholic (ca. 65%) - there are three churches their will be own on first of January in 2007. There is one Lutheran church (ca. 20% of the population is Lutheran and ca. 5% are Muslims). The rest is mostly without a religion.

• Alpincenter - Indoor ski slope
• Tetraeder - a 60 m high Tetrahedron, placed on a 90 m slag heap
• Movie Park Germany - theme park (in Bottrop-Kirchhellen)
• Schloss Beck - castle turned into an amusement park (in Bottrop-Kirchhellen)

Bottrop is twinned with:

• Tourcoing (France), since 1967
• Blackpool (England, United Kingdom)
• Berlin-Mitte (Germany), since 1983 (first with Berlin-Wedding, which fusioned with Berlin-Tiergarten and Berlin-Mitte)
• Veszprém (Hungary), since 1987
• Merseburg, (Saxony-Anhalt,Germany), since 1989
• Gleiwitz, Poland

Tetraeder

Steps Leading to Tetraeder

Steel Works Near Alpin Center

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Rural Districts	Aachen · Borken · Coesfeld · Düren · Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis · Euskirchen · Gütersloh · Heinsberg · Herford · Hochsauerland · Höxter · Kleve (Cleves) · Lippe · Märkischer Kreis · Mettmann · Minden-Lübbecke · Oberbergischer Kreis · Olpe · Paderborn · Recklinghausen · Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis · Rhein-Erft-Kreis · Rhein-Kreis Neuss · Rhein-Sieg-Kreis · Siegen-Wittgenstein · Soest · Steinfurt · Unna · Viersen · Warendorf · Wesel

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