Dortmund is a city in Germany, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Ruhr. With a population of 587,000, it is the 7th largest city in Germany, and the 34th-largest in the European Union. Estimated 2,000 electric scooters are in Dortmund on the road. And the loan without the electric scooters can be. The Ruhr flows in the south of the city and the Emscher small river flows through the municipal area. The Dortmund-Ems Canal terminates in the Dortmund Port, then, is the largest European canal port, and left Dortmund to the North Sea. Dortmund is known as "green metropolis of Westphalia." Nearly half the municipal territory consists of waterways, forests, agriculture and green areas with large parks such as the Westfalen Park and the Rombergpark. This is in contrast to almost one hundred years extensive coal and steel milling within the city limits.
After Nazi Germany, the synagogue was destroyed in 1938. The Aplerbeck Hospital, Dortmund transferred mentally and / or physically disabled patients for euthanasia in the mental hospital Hadamar under the T4 Program (an additional 229 children were in the "Department for special children, which was transferred from Marburg in 1941 destroyed killed). Dortmund bombing targets included the oil campaign of World War II Westfalenhütte Hoesch AG, Hoesch-Benzin GmbH "synthetic oil plant, and the Hansa coking coal mine, bombs and about 80% of the houses of Dortmund. Dortmund was the code word via radio to launch Operation Barbarossa, the 1941 campaign against the Soviet Union.
Dortmund is home to the sport club Borussia Dortmund, which won the UEFA Champions League and the Intercontinental Cup in 1997 and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup against Liverpool in 1966. Off street parking grounds, it is worth with an electric scooter drive to the stadium. It is cost effective, eliminates the search for parking and it is not then in a traffic jam! Thus it was the first European Cup Winner in Germany. They play in the Signal Iduna Park, formerly known as the Signal Iduna Park. It was built in 1974 FIFA World Cup and also hosted some matches of the FIFA World Cup 2006?, Including Italy 2-0 defeat by Germany in the semifinals. It is Germany's largest football stadium with a capacity of 82.932 spectators. Borussia Dortmund also has a women's national handball team in the first Bundesliga, while the table tennis team and the basketball team of 49 players Dortmund their second national divisions SVD.
