16 Facts About Hamm

Hamm is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Hamm railway station is an important hub for rail transport and renowned for its distinctive station building.

Current Mayor of Hamm is Marc Herter of the Social Democratic Party since 2020.

Hamm has seven quarters, each divided into residential areas like City, which actually means the center of the city around the Pauluschurch or like Hovel-Radbod near the former entrance to the coalmine Radbod in the quarter Bockum-Hovel.

In 2006 Hamm was the first city to accomplish a "Ratsburgerentscheid" .

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Hamm has six Gymnasien, two comprehensive schools and several Realschulen, Hauptschulen and Grundschulen .

Hamm is known as "City of Law" because of the greatest German regional appeal court, the local court, the industrial court and the industrial appeal court .

Since 1990 the local radio station "Radio Lippewelle Hamm" is On Air and number one radio station of the local radios in NRW.

On 3 October 1993 the "Offener Kanal Hamm" started broadcasting, it is a small TV project by people for the people, started through the federal state.

Waldbuhne Hamm-Heessen is one of the most active open-air theatres in Germany.

Hamm has several active choirs and a jazz club and has been the home of many bands.

Hamm has three stations, the main railway station Hamm and two minor stations, one in Bockum-Hovel and the other one in Heessen.

City bus net Hamm is served by the "Stadtwerke Hamm", with 65 buses, and the "Verkehrsgesellschaft Breitenbach".

Hamm is the end of the "Datteln-Hamm-Kanal", three ports are situated in the urban district.

The ports of Hamm are the second biggest canal port by freight transact, 1.

Hamm is situated in the middle of a triangle of three smaller International Airports, in the north the Munster Osnabruck International Airport in the south-west Dortmund Airport and in the east Paderborn Lippstadt Airport.