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Local History of Hamm

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In 1226 the Earl Adolf von der Mark founded Hamm an shortly afterwards awarded it freedom of the city. The inhabitants came vom Nienbruegge, a nearby town that had recently been destroyed.

The name of the city has its origin in the ancient field-name "Ham" meaning "angle". It was in the angle formed by the two rivers Lippe and Ahse that Hamm was founded in 1226.

Hamm developed rapidly as it was awarded the rights of own coin as well as own measures, and because it had an execellent, strategic and geo grahical location in the junction of old trade routes at the Lippe crossing. Hamm became the residence of the Earls of Mark. Being the principal among the Mark towns ist became a member of the Hanseatic League between 1469 and 1651.

The Napoleonic period brought quaterings, contributions and the incorporation into the Grand Duchy Berg. After having got ride of the French rule, Hamm was annexed to the administration district of Arnsberg in the newly formed province of Westphalia. The transfer of the Superior Provincial Court from Kleve to Hamm in 1820 was of great importance for the town.

The contruction of the Cologne-Minden railway was the beginning of Hamm as an industrial town.

On the 1st of April 1901 it left the county and became administrative district in its own right.

Geographical Positon and Statistical Declarations

Geographical positon: 51° 40' 57" N and 7° 49' 13" E , 63 meter above sea-level
Territory: 226 qkm
Inhabitants: 181.226 (situation 30.09.2000)

Different Views of the new Hamm

Many people know Hamm - for sure they know the railroad junction. But Hamm is more than just that. It is a shopping-city. A town of business with a bit of a flair of a port town. A garden town with the green of a spa in Bad Hamm, a culture-oriented town.
The justic is located in Hamm, too. By order to the cabinett of die Prussian King Frederic William III Hamm is since 1820 the location of Germany's most important Upper Law Court.

Superior Provincial Court

                                                   

With its traffic and energy plants Hamm is also the crucial point for the econmy.
The center of German Wire Industry in Hamm delivers its products to all continents of the world. Machine mills, textile-, plastics- and electrical firms complete the picture of many-fold economic structure.
Being guest in Hamm one may also be guest on the water- on board of the white Santa Monica yachts. It's really relaxing to glide along the banks of the Datteln-Hamm-Canal -gay society on board of the modern passenger boats of the Westgerman canal shipping lines.

In 1984 Hamm organized and hosted Northrhine-Westfalia's renowned 'Landesgartenschau'. Among the city's new highlights count primarily Maximilian Park with the

world's largest (glass) elephant

the Ecological Center in the north of Hamm and the new Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, which was inaugurated in 1993.

Objects of Interests

Old Buildings

Paul's Church, 13.- 14. Cent.
St. Pankratius Church, 11. - 14. Cent.
Parish Church Berge, 17. - 18. Cent.
St. Agnes Church, 15. Cent.
Parish Church Herringen, 1140
Parish Church Pelkum, 11. -14. Cent.
Parish Church St. Regina Rhynern, 12. Cent.
Parish Church Uentrop, 11. Cent.
Parish Church Rhynern, 17. Cent.

Many Secular Buildings, besides

Castle Oberwerries, 17. Cent.
Castle Heessen, 13. Cent.
Old Bewery Of Castle Ermelinghof, 13. cent.
House Vorschulze, 18. Cent.
Houses Henin and Freese, 16. and 19. Cent.
Stunikenhouse, 18. Cent.

Other Objects

World's Largest Glass-Elephant (34 meter) at the Maximilian Park
Zoological Garden
Gustav-Lübcke-Museum

Twin Towns

Favorite Links

You can reach me by e-mail at: mailbox@claus-peters.de


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