Höntrop

Höntrop is a district of Bochum in North Rhine -Westphalia. It has about 20,000 inhabitants, is one of the largest districts in the borough Wattenscheid.

Höntrop adjoins the districts west field, Sevinghausen and Eppendorf who in earlier times together with Höntrop by the end of 1974 on the independent city Wattenscheid, and is now in Bochum West. In the vicinity are the Essen district Freisenbruch and the Bochum Linden districts and Dahlhausen.

Höntrop was first documented around the year 880 as a " Hogingthorpe " in the register of the lifting founded in 802 Werden monastery. Therein the neighboring villages have also been called Eppendorf ( Abbingthorpe ) and west field ( Westanfelda ).

The place started to develop through the Ruhr mining. The station Wattenscheid - Höntrop from the 19th century is now a stop on the S-Bahn line S1 of the VRR from Dortmund to Solingen.

The municipality was incorporated into Höntrop Wattenscheid on 1 April 1926. A small portion was reclassified to Bochum.

On the traffic island the monument " steel " of Abraham David Christian was built.

Höntrop applies with several carnival societies and private parade beside Bochum -Linden as one of the carnival strongholds in the otherwise rather little carnival Bochum.

Traditionally, in Höntrop annual carnival, the geese riding as a folk festival held here, it has a 400 -year tradition. According to tradition, it was taken over by Spanish soldiers who wintered during the Eighty Years' War ( in the 17th century) in the vicinity.

Höntrop has two football clubs: In the division of the existing and long-established since 1916 SV Höntrop 1916 plays, which between 1933 and 1939 in the Gauliga Westphalia, the then highest German soccer class, played, and the young, existing only since 1980 FC Höntrop 80 This currently playing in the county league as

In 2000 Höntrop became known through a mountain of damage, the so-called Höntroper hole. This surprising day break, which evolved from the January 2, 2000 due to a cavity of the colliery Maria Anna Stone bench and sank in the garage had to be filled with concrete.

Even the small colliery Zeche Zollverein road was from 1949 to 1963 in the west of Höntrop.

Fire department

Since October 18, 1902 Höntrop has a volunteer fire department, which is known as Löschzug Höntrop today. The fire company was instrumental in securing the incurred in 2000 days break at the Emil road.

In early October 2012, a new fire station for fire trucks Höntrop and Eppendorf was inaugurated. In addition, the volunteer fire Höntrop, Eppendorf, Heide Dahl and Hausen received four new Löschgruppenfahrzeuge LF 10 /6, which were blessed on this occasion.