With a population of around 95,000, Witten is the largest city in the Ennepe-Ruhr district on the south-eastern edge of the Ruhrgebiet. The wooded hills of the Ardeygebirge and the Ruhr with its gentle floodplain landscape and the dammed Kemnader See characterize the landscape of the contrasting city.
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The extremely large green belt around the city area gives a sense of its proximity to the Bergisches Land and Sauerland. Forests, agricultural areas, green spaces and water areas cover two thirds of the total area of the city. In Witten, the RuhrtalRadweg leads directly along the Ruhr with almost no inclines. The Hohenstein recreation area, the leisure center at Kemnader See and the Muttental valley are particularly worth seeing. The Kemnader reservoir with its Ruhr in-line skating track is an Eldorado for inline skaters. Since 2013, there has been an illuminated 11 km circuit here in the evening.
More than 30 examples of mining and faithfully reconstructed industrial monuments line a 9 km long mining history trail. The LWL Industrial Museum Nachtigall Colliery provides information about 300 years of mining history in the Ruhrtal. In the Nachtigall gallery, you can experience the world "underground" and discover the last remaining coal seam. The museum is located directly on the RuhrtalRadweg and close to the stops of the RuhrtalBahn and the MS Schwalbe.