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Recklinghausen ( ) is the northernmost city in the Ruhr-Area and the capital of the Recklinghausen districtmarker. It borders the rural Münsterland and is characterized by large fields and farms in the north and industry in the south. Recklinghausen is the 60th-largest city in Germany and the 22nd-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia.


Seventeenth-century Recklinghausen
Recklinghausen was also well known as the site of more than 100 witchcraft trials (1514-1710). The trial activity reached a climax twice: In the time period of 1580/81 and again in 1588/89. The last person to be convicted of witchcraft was Anna Spickermann; after spending 16 months in prison, she was sentenced to death by sword and burned afterward.

Circa 1600, the administration of the Vest Recklinghausen was divided into two parts, with the eastern part administered by Recklinghausenmarker. The town of Recklinghausenmarker including the parish of Recklinghausen and the parishes Ahsen, Dattelnmarker, Flaesheim, Hamm-Bossendorf, Henrichenburg, Hertenmarker, Horneburgmarker, Oer, Suderwich, Waltropmarker and Westerholtmarker. Circa 1815, the Vest was made a Bürgermeisterei, with the town becoming the seat. In 1819, Hertenmarker joined the Recklinghausen Bürgermeisterei, and Erkenschwickmarker followed in 1821.

As a target of the Oil Campaign of World War II, oil production at the Recklinghausen/Forstezung was bombed by the RAF on January 15, 1945; and South Recklinghausen (Recklinghausen Sud) was captured by the US 137th Infantry on April 1, 1945.

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Recklinghausen is home to a museum of icons, which includes more than 1,000 Orthodox works from Russiamarker, Greecemarker and the Balkan countries, as well as early Coptic Christian art from Egyptmarker. The icon museum - the largest outside the Orthodox world - was founded in 1956 and reopened after renovation in February 2006 for its 50th anniversary.


In front of the Ruhrfestpielhaus, whose refurbishment in 2001 won the German Architecture Award, there is "Die Liegende Nr 5" a famous sculpture by Henry Moore. At the Lohtor in front of a memorial for the victims of World War 1, there is a large sculpture made of more than 30,000 bricks by Per Kirkeby.


The two major motorways crossing the area of the city are the A2 and the A43. The city is connected to the larger waterways by the Rhein-Herne-Kanalmarker. Recklinghausen has two railway stations. The Central Station (Recklinghausen Hauptbahnhof) which is connected to the national and European high speed (Intercity) and the South Station (Recklinghausen Südbahnhof).

Alter Holzmarkt "wood market"

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