Hagen-Rummenohl

Rummenohl is a locality of the district-free city of Hagen in the eastern part of the Ruhr area, in 1975, the localities of Dahl and Priorei joined Hagen.

This place derives from "rum" (Middle High German, "rummeln", "rumelen"; Danish, ' ; and Old Scandinavian? ')

"Rummenohl" has been a location of the iron plant for centuries, which the Volme is powered for the processing of the iron ore is used from Siegerland. By the opening of railroads in Hagen near Lüdenscheid-Brügge and another in Meinerzhagen on March 16, 1874 for railways, this improved trade in the Ruhr area. In the beginning of 1996, the railway became abandoned in Brügge and Lüdenscheid.

In the beginning 1870s, Alfred Nobel visited the dynamite factory in Rummenohl on June 5, 1910, it was struck by lightning and the factory was destroyed.

In 1901 the native baker Hermann Dresel and his lady Ida bought the old post office station in Rummenohl, which is still existing.

In 1918, a new church was built.

In 1952, the grain mill in the north, which was first opened in 1824 was shut down.

In 1970 the separate municipality of Dahl along with Dahl, Hagen and Rummenohl were incorporated into the city of Breckerfeld in Ennepe-Ruhr. In 1975, the federal parliament put Dahl into the district-free Großstadt city of Hagen.