The cities of Gelsenkirchen and Wattenscheid, as well as the Ämter of Braubauerschaft ( as of 1900, Bismarck ), Schalke, Ückendorf, Wanne and Wattenscheid all belonged to the Gelsenkirchen district.

Whereas the Gelsenkirchen of that time – not including today's north-end communities, such as Buer – was put in the Amt of Wattenscheid in the Bochum district, in the governmental region of Arnsberg, Buer, which was an Amt in its own right, was along with nearby Horst joined to Recklinghausen district in the governmental region of Münster.

Bochum-Innenstadt additionally has tram lines running to Wattenscheid and other parts of the city as well as to the neighbouring towns of Hattingen, Gelsenkirchen and Herne.

FC Nuremberg, SG Wattenscheid 09 and VfB Leipzig were relegated to the 2.

They were replaced by Hertha BSC Berlin and SG Wattenscheid 09.

In the course of a comprehensive community reform in 1975, Wattenscheid, a formerly independent city, was integrated into the city of Bochum.

He then took the ropes of German lower league side SV Edenkoben before he was given the role of manager at then relegated Bundesliga side SG Wattenscheid 09 in 1994, a stay that didn't work out well.

When the last census was held in 1987, Leithe had the third highest share of Roman Catholics in Wattenscheid and Bochum overall.

Günnigfeld belongs to the Stadtbezirk ( district of a town ) of Wattenscheid, Germany, which was a town until 1974 and is now part of Bochum.

Wattenscheid was once a separate town in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany.

Steilmann was a German textile group which had its headquarters in Wattenscheid and at its 1998 peak employed over 18, 000 people.

For example, Wattenscheid, which was a town in its own right until 1974, is now a Stadtbezirk within the city of Bochum in the Ruhr area of North Rhine-Westphalia.

* André Tanneberger ( b. 1973 ), also known as " ATB ", electronic music producer, began his career in Wattenscheid

Some of the Spiders ' support call themselves the " Irn Bru Firm " and the Spangle Army currently share an enjoyable relationship with supporters of German club SG Wattenscheid 09.

He made his Bundesliga debut on 4 May 1991 at only 19, in a 2 – 2 home draw against SG Wattenscheid 09.

Two days after the wall come down, 11, 000 East Berliners attended Hertha's match against SG Wattenscheid.

Leithe belongs to the Stadtbezirk ( district of the town ) of Wattenscheid.

Höntrop belongs to the Stadtbezirk ( district of the town ) of Wattenscheid.

Günnigfeld is the northernmost part of Wattenscheid.

Westenfeld is a part of the former town of Wattenscheid in the Ruhr area in Germany.

Westenfeld has the railway station in Wattenscheid which is most frequented by passengers.

Sevinghausen is a rural part of Wattenscheid not belonging to Westenfeld.

Bochum-Hamme includes Goldhamme, the south of which borders onto the former town of Wattenscheid.

After a 3 – 2 win over Wattenscheid 09, Turbine won promotion to the Bundesliga.

Wattenscheid street scene.

The Municipality of Strathfield area was once home to the Wangal clan who were part of the Turuwal tribe, whose country was known as Wanne.

The name these people gave to their country was documented by NSW Governor Arthur Phillip in 1790 as Wann and by his successor John Hunter as Wanne.

Dülmen can accessed by the A43 and a railway station on the Essen – Wanne Eickel – Münster line, which was built by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company, and the Dortmund – Enschede railway, which was built by the Dortmund-Gronau-Enschede Railway Company and links Dortmund and Gronau.

Present-day Herne includes the former settlements of Herne, Wanne and Eickel.

The same process took place in Wanne and Eickel, which merged in 1926 to form the new city of Wanne-Eickel.

The counts of indictment related to the alleged massacre of more than three hundred American prisoners of war " in the vicinity of Malmedy, Honsfeld, Büllingen, Ligneuville, Stoumont, La Gleize, Cheneux, Petit Thier, Trois Ponts, Stavelot, Wanne and Lutrebois ", between December 16, 1944 and January 13, 1945 during the Battle of the Bulge, as well as the massacre of about one hundred Belgian civilians in the vicinity of Stavelot.

Wanne is a residential area in the northern outskirts of the city of Tübingen, Germany.

Beyond Wanne extends the vast state nature protection area of the Schönbuch.

Wanne is popular as a residential area because of its vicinity to the nature reserve, its elevation and southern exposure.

All the women prisoners were later shipped out to one of Buchenwald's many female satellite camps in Sömmerda, Buttelstedt, Mühlhausen, Gotha, Gelsenkirchen, Essen, Lippstadt, Weimar, Magdeburg, and Penig, to name a few.

Historically, the western Ruhr towns, such as Duisburg and Essen, belonged to the historic region of the Rhineland, whereas the eastern part of the Ruhr, including Gelsenkirchen, Bochum, Dortmund and Hamm, were part of the region of Westphalia.

In 150 air raids on Bochum, over 1, 300 bombs were dropped on Bochum and Gelsenkirchen.

After the discovery of coal – lovingly known as " Black Gold " – in the Ruhr area in 1840, and the subsequent industrialization, the Cologne – Minden Railway and the Gelsenkirchen Main Railway Station were opened.

When postal codes ( Postleitzahlen ) were introduced in 1961, Gelsenkirchen was one of the few cities in West Germany to be given two codes: Buer was given 466, while Gelsenkirchen got 465.

In July 2002, DSM's petrochemicals business, located on the manufacturing locations in Geleen and Gelsenkirchen ( Germany ) were acquired by SABIC Europe.

Fußball-Club Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04, commonly known as simply FC Schalke 04 or Schalke (), is a German association-football club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia.