Timeline of Dortmund

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Dortmund, Germany.

Prior to 19th century

1005 – Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor holds an "ecclesiastical council" in Dortmund.
1016 – Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor holds an "Imperial diet" in Dortmund.
1215 – consecrated.
1220 – Dortmund becomes an imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire.
1240 – in use.
1253 – Dortmund joins the.
1267 – St. Mary's Church first mentioned.
1270 – St. Reinold's Church built.
1293 – Brewing right granted.
1322 – St. Peter's Church, Dortmund construction begins.
1332 – City rights confirmed per "Privilegium Ludovicum."
1387/8 – Dortmund besieged by forces of Friedrich III. von Saarwerden, Archbishop of Cologne.
1388 – Dortmunder Bürgerschützenverein formed.
1400 – Vehmic court established.
1454 – Tower built on St. Reinold's Church.
1521 – "" altarpiece installed in the Petrikirche.
1523 – Protestant Reformation.
1543 – founded.
1546 – Tower for the added to Town Hall.
1570 – Dortmund adopts Lutheranism per the "Augsburg Confession".
1609 – Jülich-Cleves-related signed in Dortmund.

1901 – established.
1904
* Theater Dortmund and trade school founded.
* built.
1905 – Population: 175,577.
1909
* Borussia Dortmund sport club formed.
* Nordmarkt area laid out.
1910
* Dortmund Hauptbahnhof built.
* Population: 214,226.
1914 – Eving becomes part of city.
1919 – Population: 295,026.
1920
* Regional municipal association created.
* Population: 313,752.
1924 – Weisse Wiese stadium opens.
1926 – Botanischer Garten Rombergpark acquired by city.
1927 – Dortmund U-Tower built.
1928
* becomes part of city.
* Population: 465,196.
1929 – and Syburg become part of city.
1933 – mining company in business.
1938 – Dortberghaus built.
1939 – Nazi camp for Sinti and Romani people established.
1943
* May: SS construction brigade established by the SS.
* September: SS construction brigade presumably dissolved.
1944 – Subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp established for 400 Polish women who survived the Warsaw Uprising.
1945
* March: women's subcamp of Buchenwald dissolved. Prisoners deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
* 13 April: allied forces take city.

1946
* Fritz Henßler becomes mayor.
* newspaper begins publication.
1947
* 29 March: miners strike against food shortage.
* Museum Ostwall opens.
1950 – Population: 507,349.
1952 – Westfalenhallen rebuilt.
1953 – Dortmund Zoo established.
1955 – City co-hosts the 1955 Ice Hockey World Championships.
1956 – Population: 607,885.
1959
* Florianturm erected.
* National Bundesgartenschau held in the Westfalenpark.
* City hosts the 1959 World Table Tennis Championships.
1960 – Dortmund Airport opens.
1961 – built.
1963 – Dortmund Stadthaus station opens.
1964 – City hosts the 1964 World Figure Skating Championships.
1968 – University of Dortmund established.
1969 – hi-rise built.
1973
* Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting begins.
* becomes mayor.
1974 – Westfalenstadion opens.
1975 – City co-hosts the 1975 Ice Hockey World Championships.
1976 – established.
1977 – Eving Selimiye Camii established.
1978 – built.
1980 – City hosts the 1980 World Figure Skating Championships.
1983
* Dortmund University station opens.
* active.
1984 – Dortmund Stadtbahn begins operating.
1985
* opens.
* built.
1987 – Coalmining pit closes, "marking the end of more than 150 years of coalmining in Dortmund".
1989 – rebuilt on the.
1990 – Eisengiesser Fountain reconstructed on the.
1991 – Steel company Hoesch AG was bought by Krupp.
1992 – reconstructed.
1993 – museum established.
1999
* becomes mayor.
* active.

;published in the 19th c.

;published in the 20th-21st c.

G. Luntowski and N. Reimann, ed., Dortmund 1100 Jahre Stadtgeschichte,
Gustav Luntowski et al. Geschichte der Stadt Dortmund. Harenberg, Dortmund 1994,