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18 unusual facts about Lünen


Berndt Röder

Berndt Röder (born 3 December 1948 in Lünen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German politician, representative of the German Christian Democratic Union.

Dortmund–Enschede railway

The section from Dortmund to Lünen is double track, electrified and classified as a main line.

Ernst Waldschmidt

Ernst Waldschmidt (July 15, 1897, Lünen, Province of Westphalia - February 25, 1985, Göttingen) was a German orientalist and Indologist.

Friedhelm Konietzka

Konietzka was born in Lünen, Province of Westphalia, and started his football career at his hometown club VfB 08 Lünen.

Hans Scharoun

After the war he was able to realise his architectural understanding, both ambitious and humanistic, in exemplary buildings; e.g., in the Stuttgart apartment towers of Romeo and Julia (1954–59), in the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium in Lünen (1956–62) and in the famed Philharmonic concert hall in Berlin (1956–63).

Hörde

The count wanted to surround Dortmund by separate towns (including the towns of Herdecke, Witten, Bochum, Castrop, Lünen, Unna und Schwerte).

Karl-Heinz Granitza

Karl-Heinz Granitza (born 1 November 1951 in Lünen, North Rhine-Westphalia) was a German football player.

Lamoral II Claudius Franz, Count of Thurn and Taxis

He also set up a postal route from Cologne via Lünen to Münster and a route from Münster to Osnabrück.

Lünen Hauptbahnhof

Lünen Hauptbahnhof is a railway station located north of central Lünen on the outskirts of Nordlünen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Markus Brzenska

His father Joachim and mother Halina along with their sons; Sebastian and Marcin moved from Bytom, Poland to Lünen, Germany in 1984.

Brzenska was born in a German town not far from Dortmund called Lünen; however, his parents and two older brothers were born in Poland.

Master of Liesborn

An idea of the altar-piece may be formed from a copy in a church at Lünen.

Methler

Methler has borders with Dortmund, Lünen and Unna, which makes it a well placed small town at the edge of the Ruhr Area.

Oberhausen-Osterfeld Süd–Hamm railway

In Lünen Süd there is still a disused freight yard with a hump and further west a loading facility for several industrial companies and a single-track line connecting line to Lünen Hauptbahnhof.

Rüdiger Sagel

Rüdiger Sagel (born 9 August 1955 in Lünen) is a German politician currently with the Left Party and previously with the Alliance '90/The Greens. From 1998 until 2012 he was a member of the state parliament (Landtag) for North Rhine-Westphalia.

Walter Behrendt

From 1945-1947 he was chairman of the regional Socialist Youth for Dortmund, Lünen and Castrop-Rauxel.

What to Do in Case of Fire?

It premiered in November 2001 at the German film festival Kinofest Lünen and was released to theaters in 2002.

Wolfgang Wendland

Wolfgang Wendland (born 9 November 1962 in Lünen, Germany) is a German musician, actor, film producer and politician.