About Dortmund

Dortmund - combining tradition and innovation

The city of Dortmund is the biggest city of the Ruhr area. Among the biggest cities of Germany Dortmund is in the eighth place. This makes it an important place for congresses and fairs. In former times, steel, coal, and beer influenced the growth of the city. Today Dortmund is facing a radical change: half of the city‘s surface are green areas with Dortmund being well on its way to a modern, innovative place for information technologies, micro technology, and e-logistics. Dortmund's football (i.e. soccer) club is world famous and attracts roughly 80000 people on a regular basis. The leisure and cultural activities you find in the Ruhr area do keep up with those of any other region in Germany. The visitors will then find a great variety of additional entertainment facilities.

More information about Dortmund can be found on the city's webpages or on Wikipedia.