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Lünen is a town with around 86,000 inhabitants in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located north of Dortmund, on both banks of the River Lippe. It is the largest town of the Unna district and part of the Ruhr Area. In 2009 a biogas plant was built to provide electric power to the city.
- Seepark Lünen
- Schloss Schwansbell
- Museum Der Stadt Lünen
- Evangelische Stadtkirche Lünen
- Bergarbeiter-Wohnmuseum
- Half-Timbered Houses
- St. Marien
- Cappenberger See
- Schloss Cappenberg
- Zeche Gneisenau
In the 90s an industrial wasteland from the old Zeche Preußen mine was regenerated for the Landesgartenschau (State Garden Show) in 1996. Now, almost 90 years after the mine shut down, you have to look hard in the undulating Seepark to see what came before. The Seepark’s green amphitheatre is on what looks like a natural dip in the landscape, and t...
Right across the Datteln-Hamm Canal from the Seepark is a palace going back to the end of the 10th century. For 700 years the moated castle that used to stand here was in the hands of the Lords of Schwansbell. After a fire a new house was constructed in the 1870s, in an English Gothic Revival style. This monument, topped with octagonal towers, is i...
Schloss Schwansbell’s “Gesindehaus” (servants’ house) has held Lünen’s city museum since 1982. You can step into five decorated rooms, each documenting a different facet of life in the city between 1840 and 1930. There’s a working-class kitchen, and the living room of a well-to-do civil servant’s family. The most recent room is a study from 1930 be...
The main protestant church in Lünen was first built in the 1360s and then restored in the Late Gothic style in the 1510s after a fire. Though compact in size the church is beautifully formed, with relatively low rib vaults held up by circular columns. Just above the entrance to the chancel you can spot 16th century frescoes uncovered at the start o...
Maybe the most interesting things about mining in the Ruhr is the lives of the miners themselves. In the Brambauer district you can visit the pre-planned Neue Zechenkolonie (New Mining Colony) for the Zeche Minister Achenbach colliery, on the Industrial Heritage Trail. Here half of a block (two apartments) is a museum about the domestic life of min...
Although a lot of historic buildings were pulled down for Lünen’s urban redevelopment in the 1960s, a handful of half-timbered houses are still standing in the city centre. The oldest of all awaits at Roggenmarkt 3, and is a classic Low German “Dielenhaus” (hall house) dating from the year 1600. Close by on Silberstraße is a quaint pair of houses w...
Lünen’s chief Roman Catholic church is a Neo-Gothic basilica that went up quickly between 1894 and 1896. The first church here on the north bank of the Lippe River was Romanesque, and was redesigned in the Gothic style in the Late Middle Ages. By the late 19th century that building was deemed too small for the city’s exploding population and this n...
On sunny summer days, Lünen has another idyllic recreation area, this time for activities like boating and angling. You could rent a pedal boat for €5 and indulge in a slice of cake at the cafe. The lake came about in the 1920s when clay was excavated for the Prussia – Münster railway line and the pit was filled in with water. To the north is the s...
Moments up the road from the lake is a former monastery, cresting a hilltop and looking down over the Lippe plain and the eastern Ruhr area. The monastery was run by the Premonstratensians from the 12th century, taking over the property from the Counts of Cappenberg who had family ties to the Hohenstaufen Holy Roman Emperors. The current Baroque ar...
You don’t have to travel far for a monument to the local mining industry, as the immense machinery of a 20th-century colliery can be seen from far and wide to the south of Lünen. Zeche Gneisenau is actually in Dortmund city limits, but is only five kilometres from Lünen’s old centre. When this hundred-year-old mine, power plant and coking plant shu...
Lünen, city, North Rhine–Westphalia Land (state), northwestern Germany. It lies on the Lippe River and the Seiten Canal, just north of Dortmund. Founded 1336–40 and chartered in 1341 by the count of Mark, it passed to Brandenburg in 1609 and to Prussia in 1701.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 3, 2023 · Lünen offers a variety of interesting places to visit, including its historic city center with its charming half-timbered houses, the well-preserved Lünen Castle, and the scenic Preußenhafen harbor located on the Lippe River.
- Steffen Ackermann
Lünen liegt an der Grenze zwischen dem Münsterland und der Hellwegregion in der Westfälischen Bucht, 15 km nördlich der angrenzenden Stadt Dortmund. Im Westen grenzt die Stadt an Waltrop im Kreis Recklinghausen, im Norden schließen sich Selm und Werne an, im Osten grenzt Lünen an die Städte Bergkamen und Kamen.
Lünen is the home of the famous Lünen Film Festival of German Filmaking. Each November the world of film is watching this town, its people and the River Lippe. This is when the winner is awarded the LüDIA, or the film prize. The town is also home to a great kite flying festival.
Lünen is a town with around 86,000 inhabitants in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located north of Dortmund, on both banks of the River Lippe. It is the largest town of the Unna district and part of the Ruhr Area. Map. Directions. Satellite. Photo Map. luenen.de. Wikipedia. Photo: Selisky, CC BY 2.5. Type: Town with 90,800 residents.
