Altenbochum

Altenbochum
District of Bochum
Altenbochum, Wittener Strasse
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Region	Ruhr area
City	Bochum
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	44807
Dialling code	+49 234

Altenbochum is a statistical area and a district of the city of Bochum in the Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. Altenbochum is southeast of the central business district. Altenbochum lies between Gleisdreieck and Laer. Altenbochum is connected to Gelsenkirchen, the district Langendreer, central Witten and Heven (district of Witten) by tram. Tram lines 302 and 310 and several bus lines stop here.

History

The first documented mention of Altenbochum as aldanbochem ^[1] dates back to around the year 900, ^[2] in the levy register of the Werden monastery, which listed many farming communities in the Borahtron district. ^[1]

References

1. "Geschichte der Stadt Bochum, Band I: Bochum im Mittelalter" [History of the City of Bochum, Volume I: Bochum in the Middle Ages]. sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de (in German). 1888. p. 11. Retrieved 11 June 2025.
2. Grüttner, Heinrich Theodor; Jung, Patrick; Stephan-Maaser, Reinhild (2015). Werdendes Ruhrgebiet - Spätantike und Frühmittelalter an Rhein und Ruhr[The Emerging Ruhr Region - Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages on the Rhine and Ruhr] (in German). Essen: Klartext Verlag. p. 254. ISBN   978-3-8375-1394-3.

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