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Country
  
Germany

Admin. region
  
Arnsberg

Elevation
  
58 m (190 ft)

Area
  
59.18 km²

Population
  
87,610 (30 Jun 2010)

State
  
North Rhine-Westphalia

District
  
Unna

Time zone
  
CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

Local time
  
Thursday 1:17 AM

Administrative region
  
Arnsberg

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Weather
  
4°C, Wind SE at 3 km/h, 88% Humidity

Points of interest
  
Seepark Lünen, Schwansbell, Museum der Stadt Lünen, Bergarbeiterwohnmuseum, Schlossmühle Lippholthausen

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Lünen or Luenen is a town 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.

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In 2009 a biogas plant has been built to provide electric power to the city. Lünen is the first city in the world receiving electricity via public utility companies that is generated on the base of animal waste. The plant produces up to 6.6 MW, to supply 26,000 homes with heat and electricity.

Personalities

  • Hans Scharoun, (1893–1972), architect
  • Ernst Waldschmidt, (1897–1985), Orientalist and Indologist
  • Max Simon, (1899–1961), SS officer and war criminal
  • Walter Behrendt, (1914–1997), chairman of the regional Socialist Youth for this town
  • Theo Kleine (1924–2014), silver medal winners together with Fritz Briel in the double kayak over 10.000 m at the Olympic Games 1956 in Melbourne
  • Wilhelm Kuhne (born 1926), priest (Monsignore) and former rector of the Landvolkshochschule monastery Hardehausen
  • Timo (Konietzka) (1938–2012), football player and coach
  • Dieter Zorc (1939–2007), footballer, father of the footballer Michael Zorc
  • Friedhelm Konietzka, (1938–2012), football player
  • Michael Mendl (born 1944), actor
  • Jens Beutel (born 1946), SPD politician, Lord Mayor of Mainz 1997–2011
  • Eckhart Tolle, (born 1948), spiritual teacher and author
  • Berndt Röder (born 1948), CDU politician, former president of the Hamburgische Bürgerschaft
  • Karl-Heinz Granitza (born 1951), footballer
  • Rüdiger Sagel (born 1955), politician Alliance '90/The Greens, later The Left, Member of Landtag North Rhine-Westphalia 1998–2012
  • Thomas Koch (born 1958), screenwriter
  • Andreas Thiel (born 1960), handball goalkeeper
  • Wolfgang Wendland (born 1962), singer of the punk band Die Kassierer, politician of the Pogo party
  • Max Raabe (born 1962), singer and conductor of the Palast Orchester in Berlin
  • Björn Höcke (born 1972), AfD politician, Member of Landtag in Thuringia
  • Nicole Safft (born 1975), singer, artist name Rollergirl
  • Markus Brzenska (born 1984), football player

    • Culture and main sights

    Structure

  • Saint George's Church
  • Saint Mary's Church
  • Chateau of Schwansbell
  • Colani-UFO
  • Freiherr-vom-Stein School
  • Town hall of Lünen
  • Geschwister-Scholl School
  • Industrial Monument "Moor Crane"

    • Museum

  • Museum of the town Lünen
  • Mining Museum in Lünen South
  • Mining residential Museum in Lünen Brambauer

    • Theatre

  • Heinz-Hilpert theater

    • Twin towns

    Lünen is twinned with:

  • Swinton and Pendlebury, Salford, England
  • Kamień Pomorski, Poland
  • Zwolle, Netherlands
  • Panevėžys, Lithuania
  • Bartin, Turkey
  • Demmin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

    • References

    Lünen Wikipedia
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