Bottrop: Guide, Hotels, Map & Photos
English|
EUR 70 - 389 Ringhotel Rhein-Ruhr Bottrop
 The Hotel Rhein-Ruhr is situated in the centre of the Ruhrgebiet and is served by excellent transport connections: railroad station, taxi rank, bus st… MoreEUR 58 - 129 Hotel Brauhaus
 The Hotel Brauhaus is a family-run establishment offering typically warm hospitality. It enjoys a central location within the city centre and benefits… MoreEUR 54 - 156 chillten bottrop
 This 3-star hotel and hostel in Bottrop offers a unique design, a restaurant, and leisure facilities including a games room. The Alpincenter Bottrop i… MoreEUR 51 - 249 Arcadia Hotel Bottrop
 This modern, 4-star hotel offers attractive accommodation in the centre of Bottrop, right at the edge of the Hohe Mark Nature Park, in the heart of th… More | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bottrop: Guide
Bottrop is a city in west central Germany, on the Rhine-Herne Canal, in North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen). Located in the Ruhr area|Ruhr industrial area, Bottrop adjoins Essen, Germany|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. The population is currently 119,655. 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.
Religions
Catholic: ca. 50%, Protestant (Lutheran): about 20%, Muslim: about 5%, Atheist/Agnostic: about 20%. There are 19 Catholic churches and 8 Lutheran churches.
popular persons from Bottrop
Josef Albers
From 1919 until 1976 Kirchhellen was its own town. From 1976 until 1978 it was a part of "GlaBotKi"(Gladbeck, Bottrop, Kirchhellen).
Most of Kirchhellner are catholic (ca. 65%) - there are three churches their will be own on first of January in 2007.
----
----
----
This "Travel Guide" section is drawn from the Wikipedia article "Bottrop". We hope you will edit and improve it. It is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.
August Everding
Theo Jörgensmann
Ludger Stratmann Kirchhellen
1978 Kirchhellen would a part of Bottrop. The Kirchhellner were very angry and today they aren´t happy about it yet.
There is one Lutheran church (ca. 20% of the population is Lutheran and ca. 5% are Muslims). The rest is mostly without a religion.Notable Locations
- 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)
Photos of Bottrop
Image:Tetraeder.jpg|
Image:World Youth Day 347.jpg|Steps Leading to Tetraeder
Image:World Youth Day 099.jpg|Factory Near Alpin Center
Sport
Football:
VfB Bottrop,
VfB Kirchellen
External links