Castrop, since 1 April 1926, is part of Castrop-Rauxel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
The name comes from trop/torp for village (German Dorf) and chasto/kast for shed. The oldest mention is from 834 as Villa Castrop.
During the Saxon Wars, Charlemagne used the old Roman streets. For supply Reichshöfe (singular Reichshof ) were built. Near to these Reichshöfe, settlements often grew.
The Reichshof Castrop was given to the von Bordelius in 1611.
Coordinates: 51°32′55″N7°18′37″E / 51.54861°N 7.31028°E
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Gerthe is a part of the city of Bochum in the Ruhr area in Germany. Up to the 19th century Westphalian was spoken here. Gerthe is a district in the working-class north of Bochum, in the northeast, bordering Herne and Castrop-Rauxel. The tramline to Hattingen starts here.
Jutta Dorothea Haug is a German politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1994 until 2014. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Socialist Group.
Castrop-Rauxel is a former coal mining city in the eastern part of the Ruhr Area in Germany.
Bundesautobahn 42 is an autobahn in western Germany. It connects Kamp-Lintfort with Castrop-Rauxel, linking several large cities in the Ruhr area, such as Dortmund, Duisburg, the North of Essen and Gelsenkirchen. It is colloquially known as Emscherschnellweg, after the river Emscher, which it roughly follows. Construction went underway in the 1970s and 1980s.
Walter Behrendt was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and president of the European parliament (1971–1973).
The Rhine–Herne Canal is a 45.6-kilometre-long (28.3 mi) transportation canal in the Ruhr area of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with five canal locks. The canal was built over a period of eight years and connects the harbour in Duisburg on the Rhine with the Dortmund-Ems Canal near Henrichenburg, following the valley of the Emscher. It was widened in the 1980s. The Rhein-Herne canal ship was designed specifically for this canal; normally of about 1300–1350 ton capacity, it has a maximum draft of 2.50 metres (8.2 ft), a length of approximately 80 metres (260 ft), and maximum beam of 9.50 metres (31.2 ft).
Klaus Fichtel is a German former international footballer who played as a defender.
Gustav Knepper Power Station was a coal-fired power station in Dortmund-Mengede in Germany, close to Castrop-Rauxel. It started operation in 1971 and ended on December 23, 2014.
Castrop-Rauxel Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the German city of Castrop-Rauxel. It is situated on the S2 line of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn, stopping hourly. Additional, the RE 3 (Rhein-Emscher-Express) and the RB32 (Rhein-Emscher-Bahn) both stop hourly.
Friedhelm Wentzke is a German sprint canoeist who competed in the early to mid-1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals with a gold in the K-1 4 × 500 m (1960) and a silver in the K-4 1000 m (1964).
Michael Melka is a German football player who last played for Alemannia Aachen.
Christopher Nöthe is a German professional football striker who last played for Arminia Bielefeld.
Bladenhorst Castle is a moated castle in the suburbs of the city of Castrop-Rauxel.
KV Adler Rauxel, is an amateur Korfball club from Castrop-Rauxel, Germany. The club is historically one of two clubs dominating German Korfball together with KC Grün-Weiß.
Callo-Theater is a theatre in Castrop-Rauxel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Westfälisches Landestheater is a theatre in Castrop-Rauxel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Thomas, Thomas is a 2010 German short mockumentary film, directed by German film director Corinna Liedtke. The film participated in several German and European film festivals and won a few prizes.
Holger Stromberg, is a German celebrity chef. At the age of 23 in 1994, he gained his first Michelin star whilst head chef at the restaurant Goldschmieding in Castrop-Rauxel, making him Germany's youngest Michelin starred chef. He is owner and chef patron of Restaurant G in Munich, and the chef of the Germany national football team.
Herne – Bochum II is an electoral constituency represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 141. It is located in the Ruhr region of North Rhine-Westphalia, comprising the city of Herne and the eastern part of the city of Bochum.
Heinrich Gottlieb Imig was a German trade unionist and politician.
