Witten
With a population of around 95,000, Witten is the largest city in the Ennepe-Ruhr district on the south-eastern edge of the Ruhr region. The wooded hills of the Ardey Mountains and the Ruhr with its gentle river meadows and the dammed Kemnader Lake characterize the landscape of this contrasting town.
Contact information
Stadtmarketing Witten GmbH Tourist & Ticket Service
Marktstr. 7
58452 Witten
E-mail: info@stadtmarketing-witten.de
Phone: 02302 / 19433
Fax: 02302 / 12236
Homepage: http://www.stadtmarketing-witten.de
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 Ruhr Valley cycle path runs directly along the Ruhr with almost no inclines. The Hohenstein recreation area, the leisure center at Lake Kemnader 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 Ruhr Valley. In the Nachtigall gallery, you can experience the world "underground" and discover the last remaining coal seam. The museum is located directly on the Ruhr Valley cycle path and close to the stops of the Ruhr Valley Railway and the MS Schwalbe.