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1901 – Dortmund Fire Department established. [17] 1904 Theater Dortmund and trade school [13] founded. Bismarckturm (Dortmund) (tower) built. 1905 – Population: 175,577. [18] 1909 Borussia Dortmund sport club formed. Nordmarkt area laid out. [citation needed] 1910 Dortmund Hauptbahnhof built. Population: 214,226. [19]
Dortmund is the second-largest city in the Low German dialect area, after Hamburg. Founded around 882, [4] Dortmund became an Imperial Free City. Throughout the 13th to 14th centuries, it was the "chief city" of the Rhine, Westphalia, and the Netherlands Circle of the Hanseatic League.
Dortmund then beat Brazilian club Cruzeiro 2–0 in the 1997 Intercontinental Cup final to become world club champions. [17] Borussia Dortmund were the second German club to win the Intercontinental Cup, after Bayern Munich in 1976. [18] As defending champions, Dortmund reached the Champions League semi-final in 1998.
To enable further growth, district centers were developed each of which, to this day, form the foundation of Rewe's business structure. [9] Alongside this, during the 1930s, Rewe gradually began to expand outside the traditional Rhenish-Westphalian area. In 1940, Rewe had a membership of 8,000 people with 106 cooperatives registered. [6]
On 31 January 2014, a store opened in Vienna, other stores are located in Wietmarschen (EMP Outlet Store A31), Essen, Leipzig, Nuremberg, Dortmund and Lingen.. In July 2015, the company, previously owned by its founders, was sold to the U.S.-based private equity company Sycamore Partners, also the owner of Belk Inc., among others. [1]
This is a list of seasons played by Borussia Dortmund in German and European football, from 1911 (the year of the club's first competitive season) to the most recent completed season. Borussia Dortmund were founded on 19 December 1909. The club has won the German Championship eight times, the German Cup five times and the German Supercup six times.
1968 – The University of Dortmund was founded on 16 December. 1969 – The Ruhrkohle AG was founded. 1969 – The Stadtbahngesellschaft Ruhr, founded on an initiative of the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia takes over the planning of the Stadtbahnnetz Rhine-Ruhr (local railways). 1970 – The first Revierpark comes into being in Herne.
The eponymous square, which gives the borough its name, is famous for being the birthplace of football club Borussia Dortmund. The club was founded in 1909 by members of a catholic youth group in a bar situated right at the square. [2] As the rest of Dortmund's northern city center, the borough has suffered from the fall of the coal and steel ...