Online Encyclopedia
Make a correction
Your email address will not appear on the site. Note, comments may take some time to be approved.
Back to article:
HATTINGEN
Your email:
Article name:
Article content:
HATTINGEN, a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Westphalia, on the river Ruhr, 21 M. N.E. of Dusseldorf. Pop. (1900), 8975. It has two Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church. The manufactures include tobacco, and iron and steel goods. In the neighbourhood are the ruins of the Isenburg, demolished in 1226. Hattingen, which received communal rights in 1396, was one of the Hanse towns.