HATTINGEN

city, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), northwestern Germany, on the Ruhr River, immediately south of Bochum. Chartered in 1396 and a member of the Hanseatic League, it declined during the Thirty Years' War and expanded again in the 19th century. Its St. George's Church (1450) is the centre of an attractively planned square, and the old town hall (1576) is now the local museum. There are steelworks and rolling mills, with coal mining in the vicinity. Pop. (1989 est.) 56,242.