Bottrop

The total area of the municipal territory is about {{convert|101|km2|0|abbr=on}}. The longest north-south distance is {{convert|17|km|mi|abbr=on}}, and from west to east {{convert|9|km|mi|abbr=on}}. The highest peak within the city's territory is {{convert|78|m|ft|abbr=on}}, the lowest one being {{convert|26|m|ft|abbr=on}} above sea level.

Bottrop is divided into three boroughs: Bottrop-Mitte (Bottrop-Center), Bottrop-Süd (Bottrop South) and Bottrop-Kirchhellen, each having a borough representation and a borough ruler.

These boroughs are further subdivided into city parts, partly named after their traditional names, while the newly built parts are only recently named:

• Bottrop-Mitte: Eigen, Fuhlenbrock, Stadtmitte, and Marktviertel
• Bottrop-Süd: Batenbrock, Boy, Ebel, Lehmkuhle, Vonderort, Gartenstadt Welheim (Garden city Welheim), and Welheimer Mark
• Bottrop-Kirchhellen: Ekel, Feldhausen, Grafenwald, Hardinghausen, Holthausen, Im Loh, Kirchhellen, Kuhberg, and Overhagen

For statistical reasons, Bottrop is also divided into statistical boroughs. They are (with their official numbering):

From 1919 until 1976, Kirchhellen was its own town. Following a communal reorganization reform in 1975, both Kirchhellen and Gladbeck joined the city of Bottrop. This resulted in the nickname "GlaBotKi". Gladbeck left the city in 1976, and became part of the district of Recklinghausen.

Most of Kirchhellen is Catholic (around 65%). It has three churches, including one Lutheran church.

The current mayor of Bottrop is Bernd Tischler of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) since 2009. The most recent mayoral election was held on 13 September 2020, and the results were as follows:

{{election table}}

! colspan=2| Candidate

! Party

! Votes

! %

|-

| bgcolor={{party color|Social Democratic Party of Germany}}|

| align=left| Bernd Tischler

| align=left| Social Democratic Party

| 31,795

| 73.1

|-

| bgcolor={{party color|Alliance 90/The Greens}}|

| align=left| Andrea Swoboda

| align=left| Alliance 90/The Greens

| 4,117

| 9.5

|-

| bgcolor={{party color|Free Democratic Party (Germany)}}|

| align=left| Andreas Bucksteeg

| align=left| Free Democratic Party

| 3,023

| 7.0

|-

| bgcolor={{party color|German Communist Party}}|

| align=left| Michael Gerber

| align=left| German Communist Party

| 2,071

| 4.8

|-

| bgcolor={{party color|Ecological Democratic Party}}|

| align=left| Marianne Dominas

| align=left| Ecological Democratic Party

| 1,334

| 3.1

|-

| bgcolor={{party color|The Left (Germany)}}|

| align=left| Günter Blocks

| align=left| The Left

| 1,153

| 2.7

|-

! colspan=3| Valid votes

! 43,493

! 97.5

|-

! colspan=3| Invalid votes

! 1,114

! 2.5

|-

! colspan=3| Total

! 44,607

! 100.0

|-

! colspan=3| Electorate/voter turnout

! 92,241

! 48.4

|-

| colspan=5| Source: [https://www.wahlergebnisse.nrw/kommunalwahlen/2020/aktuell/b512000kw2000.shtml State Returning Officer]

|}

File:2020 Bottrop City Council election.svg

The Bottrop city council governs the city alongside the mayor. The most recent city council election was held on 13 September 2020, and the results were as follows:

{{election table}}

! colspan=2| Party

! Votes

! %

! +/-

! Seats

! +/-

|-

| bgcolor={{party color|Social Democratic Party of Germany}}|

| align=left| Social Democratic Party (SPD)

| 17,668

| 40.2

| {{decrease}} 7.4

| 24

| {{decrease}} 2

|-

| bgcolor={{party color|Christian Democratic Union of Germany}}|

| align=left| Christian Democratic Union (CDU)

| 10,513

| 23.9

| {{decrease}} 3.2

| 14

| {{decrease}} 1

|-

| bgcolor={{party color|Alliance 90/The Greens}}|

| align=left| Alliance 90/The Greens (Grüne)

| 5,639

| 12.8

| {{increase}} 7.4

| 8

| {{increase}} 5

|-

| bgcolor={{party color|Alternative for Germany}}|

| align=left| Alternative for Germany (AfD)

| 3,076

| 7.0

| {{increase}} 5.2

| 4

| {{increase}} 3

|-

| bgcolor={{party color|Ecological Democratic Party}}|

| align=left| Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP)

| 1,856

| 4.2

| {{decrease}} 0.4

| 2

| {{decrease}} 1

|-

| bgcolor={{party color|German Communist Party}}|

| align=left| German Communist Party (DKP)

| 1,832

| 4.2

| {{increase}} 0.2

| 2

| ±0

|-

| bgcolor={{party color|Free Democratic Party (Germany)}}|

| align=left| Free Democratic Party (FDP)

| 1,821

| 4.1

| {{increase}} 1.5

| 2

| {{increase}} 1

|-

| bgcolor={{party color|The Left (Germany)}}|

| align=left| The Left (Die Linke)

| 1,507

| 3.4

| {{decrease}} 0.7

| 2

| ±0

|-

! colspan=2| Valid votes

! 43,912

! 98.5

!

!

!

|-

! colspan=2| Invalid votes

! 672

! 1.5

!

!

!

|-

! colspan=2| Total

! 44,584

! 100.0

!

! 58

! {{increase}} 4

|-

! colspan=2| Electorate/voter turnout

! 92,241

! 48.3

! {{decrease}} 0.2

!

!

|-

| colspan=7| Source: [https://www.wahlergebnisse.nrw/kommunalwahlen/2020/aktuell/a512000kw2000.shtml State Returning Officer]

|}

• Main Post Office, constructed 1921-1923
• The Quadrat is a museum housing permanent exhibitis on local history and displaying works by Josef Albers and many temporary exhibitions.
• City Hall (Neo-Renaissance 1910–1916) is regarded as the emblem of the city.
• Schloss Beck theme park and castle (late baroque period 1766–1777)
• Villa Dickmann, constructed 1901–1903 (art nouveau)
• Alte Apotheke (Old Pharmacy, Wilhelminian style 1895)
• Catholic churches
• Heilige Familie
• Heilig Kreuz, built 1955–57, windows by Georg Meistermann
• Herz Jesu, built 1929
• Liebfrauen
• St. Antonius
• St. Barbara
• St. Bonifatius
• St. Cyriakus, Propstei, built 1861/62 by Emil von Manger
• St. Elisabeth, built 1954
• St. Franziskus
• St. Johannes Baptist (BOT-Boy)
• St. Johannes der Täufer (BOT-Kirchhellen)
• St. Joseph
• St. Ludger
• St. Mariä Himmelfahrt
• St. Matthias
• St. Michael
• St. Paul
• St. Peter
• St. Pius
• St. Suitbert, built 1955
• Protestant churchesEvangelische Kirchen in Bottrop: http://www.kirchenkreis.org/content/e559/e3019/e2909/index_ger.html
• Auferstehungskirche
• Friedenskirche
• Gnadenkirche
• Martin-Niemöller-Kirche
• Martinskirche, erbaut 1884
• Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche
• Pauluskirche
• Malakow-Turm (1872) of the coal mine Prosper II
• Coal Mining Tip Haniel with an open-air theater (Amphitheater) and the Stations of the Cross designed by Tisa von der Schulenburg and Adolf Radecki and opened in 1995.
• Saalbau, convention center

• Alpincenter - the world's longest indoor ski slope
• Tetraeder is a 50-m-tall walkable steel tetrahedron, placed on a 90-m slag heap. It has been the town's landmark since its construction in 1995.
• Movie Park Germany - theme park (in Bottrop-Kirchhellen)
• Schloss Beck is a castle turned into an amusement park (in Bottrop-Kirchhellen).
• Indoor Skydiving Bottrop, a powerful vertical wind tunnel, attracts skydivers from all over Europe.
• Since September 12, 2005, so called Stolpersteine have been placed by artist Gunter Demnig all over the city in remembrance of the people deported and killed by the Nazis.

• January: Festival Orgel PLUS (music festival started in 1989)
• February: Rose Monday Parade and Carnival
• May: Horse Market
• May: Asparagus - Farmers' Market in Kirchhellen
• Brezelfest (Pretzel Festival) in Kirchhellen
• May/June/July: Schützenfeste (marksmen festivals) of Bottrops marksmen companies (BSV Bottrop Batenbrock, BSV Bottrop Eigen, BSV Bottrop Fuhlenbrock, BSV Bottrop Vonderort, BSV Andreas Hofer, Alte Allgemeine Bürgerschützengesellschaft, BSV Bottrop Boy)Past Events of Alte Allgemeine Bürgerschützengesellschaft: http://www.alte-allgemeine.de/termine/eventlist/archiveEvents BSV Bottrop Boy: {{cite web|url=http://www.turbofilter.de/wp/bsv-boy/termine.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-08-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719100415/http://www.turbofilter.de/wp/bsv-boy/termine.html |archive-date=2011-07-19 }}
• September: Michaelismarket

• Catholic: 50% (19 churches)
• Protestant (Lutheran): 20% (8 churches)
• Atheist/agnostic: 20%
• Muslim: 2%

• Josef Albers (1888–1976), painter, graphic artist, designer, art teacher
• August Everding (1928–1999), director of the Hamburgische Staatsoper 1973–77, general director of the Bavarian State Theater rector
• Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser (born 1965), archaeologist
• Andrea C. Hoffer (born 1964), painter
• Paul Holz (1952–2017), football player
• Martin Honert (born 1953), artist, professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
• Da Hool (born 1968), DJ and music producer
• Theo Jörgensmann (born 1948), jazz musician and composer
• Gisela Kinzel (born 1961), athlete and Olympian
• Ulla Kock am Brink (born 1961), television presenter
• Bernhard Korte (1938–2025), mathematician and computer scientist
• Werner Münch (born 1940), politician (CDU), prime minister of Saxony-Anhalt (1991–1993)
• Christian Scheuß (born 1966), journalist and writer
• Claus Spahn (born 1940), journalist and author

{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany}}

Bottrop is twinned with:{{cite web |title=Städtepartnerschaften|url=https://www.bottrop.de/politik/partnerstadt/index.php|website=bottrop.de|publisher=Bottrop|language=de|access-date=2021-02-10}}

• {{flagicon|ENG}} Blackpool, England, United Kingdom (1980)
• {{flagicon|POL}} Gliwice, Poland (2007)
• {{flagicon|GER}} Merseburg, Germany (1989)
• {{flagicon|GER}} Mitte (Berlin), Germany (1983)
• {{flagicon|FRA}} Tourcoing, France (1967)
• {{flagicon|HUN}} Veszprém, Hungary (1987)
• {{flagicon|JPN}} Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Japan

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