Lünen or Luenen is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...

, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. It is located north of Dortmund

Dortmund

Dortmund is a city in Germany. It is located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. Its population of 585,045 makes it the 7th largest city in Germany and the 34th largest in the European Union....

 along the Lippe River

Lippe River

The Lippe is a river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Rhine and in length.The source is located at the edge of the Teutoburg Forest in Bad Lippspringe close to the city of Paderborn. It runs westward through Paderborn, Lippstadt and then along the northern edge...

. It is the largest town of the Unna district

Unna (district)

The Unna district is a Kreis in central North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring authorities are the district of Coesfeld, the city of Hamm, the districts of Soest and Märkischer Kreis, the cities of Hagen and Dortmund, and the district of Recklinghausen.-History:The area of the present...

, and part of the green Münster area.

A biogas plant will be built to provide electric power to the city. Lünen will be the first city in the world receiving electricity via public utility companies that was generated on the base of animal waste. The plant will produce up to 6.6MW, to supply 26,000 homes with heat and electricity.

People

• Walter Behrendt
  Walter Behrendt
  Walter Behrendt was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party and president of the European parliament ....
  
  , he was a chairman of the regional Socialist Youth for this town
• Karl-Heinz Granitza
  Karl-Heinz Granitza
  Karl-Heinz Granitza was a German football player. In the United States, he is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame....
  
  , born here
• Max Raabe
  Max Raabe
  Max Raabe is a German singer. He is particularly noted as the founder and leader of the Palast Orchester....
  
  , born here
• Hans Scharoun
  Hans Scharoun
  Bernhard Hans Henry Scharoun was a German architect best known for designing the Berlin Philharmonic concert hall and the in Löbau, Saxony. He was an important exponent of Organic architecture....
  
  , architect
• Ernst Waldschmidt
  Ernst Waldschmidt
  Ernst Waldschmidt was a German orientalist and Indologist. He was a pupil of German indologist Emil Sieg....
  
  , born here
• Klausjürgen Wussow
  Klausjürgen Wussow
  Klausjürgen Wussow , Germany, since 1945 Kamień Pomorski, Poland - June 19, 2007 in Rüdersdorf) was a German theatre- and very popular television actor. From 1960 until 1991 he was married to Austrian actress Ida Krottendorf. Together they had two children...
  
  , actor, attended the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium high school
• Nicole Saft
  Rollergirl
  Nicole Safft , professionally known as Rollergirl, is a German singer with a number of successful tracks such as "Dear Jessie" and "Luv U More," the latter being a cover of a song by Sunscreem.The love for rollerskates developed early when working at a rollerskating rink...
  
  , eurodance vocalist of the Rollergirl project, and co-presenter of a handful of shows on German cable/satellite TV stations
• Eckhart Tolle
  Eckhart Tolle
  Eckhart Tolle is a German-born Canadian resident, best known as the author of the The Power of Now and A New Earth, which were written in English. In 2011, he was listed by the Watkins Review as the most spiritually influential person in the world...
  
  , spiritual teacher, born here

Main sights

• Saint George's church
• Saint Mary's church
• Chateau of Schwansbell
• Heinz-Hilpert theater
• Colani-UFO

Twin towns

Lünen is twinned

Town twinning

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 with: Salford

City of Salford

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, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 Kamień Pomorski

Kamien Pomorski

Kamień Pomorski is a town in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship of northwestern Poland. The capital of Kamień County, the town had 9,129 inhabitants as of June 30, 2008.- History :...

, Poland

Poland

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 Zwolle

Zwolle

Zwolle is a municipality and the capital city of the province of Overijssel, Netherlands, 120 kilometers northeast of Amsterdam. Zwolle has about 120,000 citizens.-History:...

, Netherlands

Netherlands

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