Qualla: Dortmund https://qualla.com/dortmund en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:34 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Dortmund https://qualla.com/dortmund Dortmund: Introduction https://qualla.com/dortmund/ On 12 March 1945, 1,108 Allied bombers crossed the Ruhr sky and dropped 4,851 tonnes of explosives on a single German city in a single afternoon. It was, and remains, the largest raid against any single target in the entire Second World War. Ninety-eight percent of central Dortmund disappeared in a few hours. The city that emerged from the rubble looks nothing like the one that went under it, and that is the central fact you need to understand about Dortmund: it has been ending and beginning for a thousand years.

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/j/m/dortmund-wp/u1jm-dortmund-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Dortmund: Throtmanni, the Free Man's Town https://qualla.com/dortmund/ Dortmund's first appearance in writing, around 882, is a tax receipt. A monk at Werden Abbey noted that in a place called Throtmanni, the free man Arnold paid eight pfennigs. The name shifted through Tremonia and Trotmunni and Dorpmunde before settling into modern German. By 1293...

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/j/m/dortmund-wp/u1jm-dortmund-throtmanni-the-free-mans-town.mp3 0:06 2 full Dortmund: The Black Decades https://qualla.com/dortmund/ Industrialisation turned a quiet Westphalian market town into a furnace. Between 1875 and 1905 Dortmund's population leapt from 57,742 to nearly 380,000 as coal pits opened and steelworks rose along the Emscher. Whole neighbourhoods, Nordstadt and the Borsigplatz quarter among th...

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/j/m/dortmund-wp/u1jm-dortmund-the-black-decades.mp3 0:06 3 full Dortmund: What Was Rebuilt, and What Wasn't https://qualla.com/dortmund/ The post-war architects faced an honest question: should they recreate a medieval city, or accept that one was gone? Dortmund chose accept. The street grid was preserved, the salt-trade route of the Westenhellweg still cuts through the centre as a pedestrian artery, and a ring ro...

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/j/m/dortmund-wp/u1jm-dortmund-what-was-rebuilt-and-what-wasnt.mp3 0:06 4 full Dortmund: After the Last Pit Closed https://qualla.com/dortmund/ On 30 April 1987 the Minister Stein colliery shut down, ending more than 150 years of Dortmund coal. The breweries followed, the steelworks folded, and the city had to choose what to be next. The answer came in pieces. The Phoenix steelworks site in Hörde was demolished and flood...

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/j/m/dortmund-wp/u1jm-dortmund-after-the-last-pit-closed.mp3 0:06 5 full Dortmund: What to Look For From Above https://qualla.com/dortmund/ From the air, four landmarks anchor Dortmund. The yellow rectangle south of the centre is the Westfalenstadion, Germany's largest football stadium and the loudest place in European sport. Just east of it the 266-metre Florianturm telecommunications mast pierces the Westfalenpark....

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