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"Seal of Dortmund, the city of Westphalia" [SIGILLVM TREMONIE CIVITATIS WESTFALIE] Dortmund was first mentioned in the Werden Abbey, which was built between 880 and 884.The Latin entry reads: In Throtmanni liber homo Arnold viii den nob solvit (German: In Throtmanni zahlt uns der freie Mann Arnold 8 Pfennige, and English: In Throtmanni the free man Arnold pays us 8 pfennigs). [17]
Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e. V. Dortmund, often known simply as Borussia Dortmund (German pronunciation: [boˈʁʊsi̯a ˈdɔɐ̯tmʊnt] ⓘ) [5] or by its initialism BVB (pronounced [beːfaʊ̯ˈbeː] ⓘ), or just Dortmund by International fans, is a German professional sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Dortmund becomes part of Prussia per Congress of Vienna. [1] Oberbergamt Dortmund (regional mining office) headquartered in city. 1816 – Population: 4,465. [7] 1841 – Sparkasse Dortmund (bank) founded. [8] 1847 – Duisburg–Dortmund railway and Dortmund–Hamm railway begin operating. 1849 – Elberfeld–Dortmund railway begins operating.
Monument on the Hohenzollern Bridge in Cologne Emperor William monument in Dortmund-Hohensyburg Statue of Emperor William, seated, in Dortmund's Westfalenpark. A large number of monuments were erected in Germany in honour of Emperor William I (known in German as Kaiser-Wilhelm-Denkmal).
Prussia (/ ˈ p r ʌ ʃ ə /, German: Preußen [ˈpʁɔʏsn̩] ⓘ; Old Prussian: Prūsija, Prūsa [b]) was a German state centred on the North European Plain that originated from the 1525 secularization of the Prussian part of the State of the Teutonic Order.
The Province of Westphalia (German: Provinz Westfalen) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia from 1815 to 1946. [1] In turn, Prussia was the largest component state of the German Empire from 1871 to 1918, of the Weimar Republic and from 1918 to 1933, and of Nazi Germany from 1933 until 1945.
Westphalia (/ w ɛ s t ˈ f eɪ l i ə /; German: Westfalen [vɛstˈfaːlən]; Low German: Westfalen [vεs(t)ˈfɔːln]) is a region of northwestern Germany and one of the three historic parts of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
It then became part of the Kingdom of Prussia after 1701. In 1807 the County of the Mark passed from Prussia to France in the Treaties of Tilsit. In 1808 Napoleon then gave Mark to the elevated Grand Duchy of Berg, which was divided into four departments along the lines of Napoleonic France. Mark was in the Ruhr Department until the collapse of ...