Witten-Wullen
Wullen is a district of Witten- Annen, Witten, North Rhine -Westphalia.
History
The first documentary mention is Wullen in the year 1019 with a yard. Over the decades, the area grew, in 1096 there are mentioned two other farms that were given to the abbey of Siegburg. According to tradition, the village has at that time have been completely surrounded by dense forests, so it is only with great difficulty was the residents able to visit other surrounding villages. Translated into High German Wullen means as much as " Wolfstal ". Over time this changed the landscape and the forests gave way gradually fields where centuries agriculture was operated.
Wullen has grown together in a northeasterly extension addition, with the former pond shaft Bebbelsdorf.
1809, during the occupation of the region by Napoleon I., the communities Witten, Annen, Rüdinghausen, Wullen and today belongs to Bochum Langendreer were pooled for Mairie Witten. After the withdrawal of the French this administrative entity was dissolved again, but Wullen remained connected to Annen. By 1830 they were assigned to the Office Dorstfeld, together they formed eventually from 1850, the rural community Annen- Wullen, in 1871 the district of Dortmund assigned before they finally fell in 1885 to the county Horde.
As the county Hoerde 1929 resolved Hoerde was an urban district of Dortmund, while Annen part Witten was. In this municipality reform of the district fell to the Ruhr city of Witten.
Unlike Annen, which grew up in the era of coal mining from a farming village to a small town, Wullen has preserved its original appearance, at least in some quarters. Only in the last decades of the 20th century, it has come in Wullen ( they say in Witten colloquially actually " in Wullen " and not " in Wullen " ) to increased residential development, as well as an industrial area has arisen.
Education
The University of Witten / Herdecke (UW / H ), the only comprehensive university in private ownership in Germany, located since the construction of the campus in 1993 Wullen.
Traffic
- A 44 motorway junction Witten- Stockum / Dortmund - Oespel
- A 44 motorway junction Witten- Annen
- VER - 371 bus (from City Hall to Dortmund Witten - Oespel about Wullen and Stockum )
- VER - 375 bus (from City Hall to Witten Witten- Annen ).
Witten Districts
The urban area Witten is divided into eight districts. The districts in turn are in neighborhood districts - colloquially districts - divided. Wullen is not a district, but only a part of the city district. Like all city districts part he wears a number ( 42), it belongs to the district Annen. When speaking in other lists of twelve districts, it is because that the districts of the formerly independent city Herbede in these lists are counted as independent districts.