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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 duri