Waltrop

Waltrop is a German city located in the north of the the Ruhr at the North-West of the Land of Rhineland-of-North-Westphalia. It belongs to the district of Recklinghausen in the District of Münster.

Geography

Waltrop is located at the North-West of Dortmund between the Canal Dortmund-Ems, which runs in south-west, and the Canal Datteln-Hamm in north.

The commune is not cut out in Ortsteil in but it counts seven principal villages distributed around the city centers: Unterlippe , Oberlippe , Elmenhorst , Brockenscheidt , Leveringhausen , Oberwiese and Holthausen .

History

The village of Waltrop was formed around the parish church St Peter which is always used for the worship nowadays.

In 1032, it is already mentioned the church St Peter in a legacy of the archbishop of Cologne to the Benedictine abbey of Deutz, even if, with the truth the name of the village is not clearly mentioned.

Waltrop reached the statute of city on January 30th, 1939.

Blazon

On a gold field is a sand eagle to the legs and nozzle of mouths.

Municipal authorities

Municipal council

Since the municipal elections of 2004, SPD east is the principal group within the Municipal council with 16 seats out of 40.

SPD: 16 seats
CDU: 14 seats
Grüne Liste Waltrop (GLW): 2 seats
FDP: 3 seats
Waltroper Aufbruch (WA): 3 seats
Bündnis für Waltrop: 2 seats

History of the municipal elections since 1975

In this table, only the parties and lists were indicated having obtained a minimum of 2,95% of the votes.

Successive mayors

Since the elections of 2004, Anne Heck-Guthe (SPD) exerts the function of mayor ( Bürgmeisterin ). She succeeded Willi Scheffers (CDU).

Mayors of Waltrop since 1939:

August Apffelstaedt (1939 - 1940)
Paul Lassoff (1940 - 1945)
Wilhelm Burbaum, Hermann Close & Fritz Dellwig (all three between May 1945 und 1946)
Wilhelm Predeck, Centrist (1946 - 1949)
Oskar Timm, SPD (1949 - 1952)
Wilhelm Predeck, CDU (1952 - 1953)
Heinrich Ferkinghoff, CDU (1953 - 1964)
Reinhold Mittelstaedt, SPD (1964 - 1969)
Hermann Keuter, CDU (1969 - 1975)
Jochen Münzner, SPD (1975 - 1999)
Wilhelm Scheffers, CDU (1999 - 2004)
Anne Heck-Guthe, SPD (since 2004)

Twinnings

Culture and curiosities

Museums

Heimatmuseum (local museum): it informs about the history of Waltrop while being pressed on a rich person iconography.
the ship lift of Henrichenburg of 1899 is from now on a museum open to the visit.

Remarkable buildings

The ship lift of Henrichenburg is the true emblem of the city which proclaims Stadt of Schiffshebewerk (city of the ship lift).

The old colliery of Waltrop was transformed into park of activities.

In the middle of Waltrop, draws up the church parroissiale St Peter which dates from 9th and 10th centuries; it is equipped with a bell-tower of 40 Mr. top. Around the church, one finds a picturesque whole of Half-timbered houses, probably built in 1576 and known under the name of " Tempel".

One can also admire the vault St Laurentius in the village of Leveringhausen.

Parks and natural spaces

This old industrial town is famous for the number and the quality of its green areas, among which:

Moselbachpark
Pfarrgarten
Lagoons of purification of Dortmund (hiking trails and cycle tracks)
the channels (oar and veil)
Park of the locks of Henrichenburg (with the old one and the current ship lift as well as the old ones and new locks)

Festivities

Ball in pyjamas of youth (Sunday of carnival, public from 16 to 40 years)
Waltroper Parkfest (at the end of August) with concerts in Moselbachpark
Beach Party with 30 tons of sand in Pfarrgarten (each year, little before the summer holidays)

External bonds

Official site of the city
presentation of Waltrop on the site of its binocular Cesson-Sévigné

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