Bottrop

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Bottrop is a city in Germany's Ruhr industrial region that developed as a coal-mining and rail center starting in the 1860s and was officially chartered as a city in 1921. Today it remains an industrial hub producing chemicals, textiles, machinery, and coal-tar derivatives, located on the Rhine–Herne Canal in North Rhine-Westphalia.

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German location.type: City
German location.image_caption: Church St. Peter and Paul in Bochum
German location.image_coa: DEU Bottrop COA.svg
German location.image_flag: Flagge der Stadt Bottrop.svg
German location.state: Nordrhein-Westfalen
German location.region: Münster
German location.district: urban
German location.elevation: 60
German location.area: 100.7
German location.Gemeindeschlüssel: 05512000
German location.postal_code: 46236–46244
German location.area_code: 02041, 02045
German location.licence: BOT
German location.mayor: Matthias Buschfeld
German location.leader_term: 2025–30
German location.Bürgermeistertitel: Lord Mayor
German location.party: SPD
German location.ruling_party1: SPD

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Bottrop
Population: 118705
Area: 100.61
Elevation: 55
Official website: www.bottrop.de
Image: Bottrop - Altmarkt 02 ies.jpg
Dialing code: 02045
Licence plate code: BOT

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Commons category: Bottrop
postal code: 46236
time of earliest written record: 1092-00-00
Commons gallery: Bottrop
short name: Bop
P6814: Bottrop
male population: 57101
P8168: jeans
hashtag: Bottrop

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Boroughs
Kirchhellen
Politics
Mayor
City council
Culture and attractions
Theaters, museums, and buildings
Attractions
Periodic events
Religion
Notable people
Twin towns – sister cities
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thumb|Altmarkt in the city thumb|St. Cyriacus's Church (Catholic) thumb|St. Martin's Church (Protestant) Mine: Bergwerk Prosper 2|thumb thumb|Tetrahedron landmark Bottrop () is a city in west-central Germany, on the Rhine–Herne Canal, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Located in the Ruhr industrial area, Bottrop adjoins Essen, Oberhausen, Gladbeck, and Dorsten. The city had been a coal-mining and rail center and contains factories producing coal-tar derivatives, chemicals, textiles, and machinery. Bottrop grew as a mining center beginning in the 1860s, was chartered as a city in 1921, and bombed during the Oil Campaign of World War II. In 1975, it unified with the neighbouring communities of Gladbeck and Kirchhellen, but Gladbeck left it in 1976, leading to Kirchhellen becoming a district of Bottrop as Bottrop-Kirchhellen. It is also twinned with Blackpool, England.

==Boroughs== The total area of the municipal territory is about . The longest north-south distance is , and from west to east . The highest peak within the city's territory is , the lowest one being above sea level.