Editing Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia (section)

==History==

===Coat of arms===
The coat of arms has been in use in its present form for about 750 years. It shows the markish chessboard ("märkischen Schachbalken") in red and silver on a golden field. Originally it was the founders' coat of arms, i. e. the Counts of Mark. The chessboard and the colours are often displayed in the coats of arms of further towns founded by that family line. Similarly, the colours of the city are red and white.

===Overview===
The name ''Ham'' means "corner" in the old [[Low German]] dialect spoken at that time. In the old times the name ''thom Hamme'' would be used, which evolved slowly into its modern form ''Hamm''. The name derives from the description of the Hamm's location in the corner of the Lippe river and the narrow Ahse affluent, where it was founded on Ash Wednesday in March 1226 by Count Adolf I of the [[Mark (county)|Mark]]. 
[[File:Pauluskirche Hamm.jpg|right|thumb|250 px|Pauluskirche former St.Georg, main church of Hamm]]
[[File:Gruendungsprivileg Hamm.jpg|right|thumb|250 px|"Gründungsprivileg" Town rights of Hamm]]
[[File:Hamm (Westfalen) Hauptbahnhof asv2024-05 img2.jpg|right|thumb|250 px|[[Hamm (Westfalen) railway station|Hamm railway station hall]]]]
*1350 The [[Black death]] killed nearly all of the citizens. Only seven families survived.
*1469 Hamm became a member of the [[Hanseatic League]]. It was one of the most powerful towns in the region, while the large cities of the today's Ruhr area still were only tiny villages.
*1614 The Treaty of Xanten ends the conflict about the heritage of Cleve-Mark, the [[Prince-elector|Electorate]] Brandenburg (later [[Prussia]]) inherited the Ducal Cleve and the counties Ravensburg and Mark (with Hamm)
*1618-1648 [[Thirty Years' War]], Hamm was taken several times by different armed forces and had to endure changing garrisons. Almost all buildings were destroyed, except for the main church St. Georg (today: Pauluskirche) and St. Agnes church.
*1657 Establishment of the Gymnasium illustre (later named Gymnasium Hammonense) with three faculties ([[theology]], [[jurisprudence]] and [[philosophy]]).
*1753 Establishment of the regional court (Landgericht)
*1767 "Märkische Kammerdeputation" established
*1769 Brewery Isenbeck founded
*1787 Changing of the "Märkische Kammerdeputation" into the "Märkische Kriegs- und Domänenkammer" by the Prussian "Generaldirektorium".
*1818 Hamm has 4,688 inhabitants.
*1820 The regional appeal court moves from Cleve to Hamm.
*1847 First train stops at the main station Hamm
*1853 Westfälische Union (later Thyssen Draht AG) was founded
*1856 Westfälische Draht Industrie was founded (later Klöckner Draht GmbH, today Westfälische Draht Industrie (WDI))
*1901 30,000 inhabitants, the district Hamm is split up into the urban district of Hamm (City) and the district of Unna.
*1901 Coal-mine de Wendel in Herringen starts mining (later Heinrich-Robert, now Bergwerk Ost) (first coal output 1904)
*1902 Coal-mine Maximilian in Werries/Ostwennemar starts mining (first coal output 1907)
*1905 Coal-mine Radbod in Bockum-Hövel starts mining (first coal output 1905)
*1912 Coal-mine Sachsen in Heessen starts mining (first coal output 1914)
*1914 Datteln-Hamm-Canal is completed including the new city port
*1938 The A2 (motorway) reaches Hamm
*1939-1945 55 air raids destroy nearly 60% of the old city and leave only a few historical buildings.
*1944 Coal-mine Maximillian closes after several problems with water drainage of the hole mine (completely flooded in 1914).
*1945 First meeting of the city council after the war
*1946 Establishment of the industrial court and the industrial court of appeal by the Allied Control Council.
*1953 Windsor Boys' School opens for the children on British Service personnel   
*1956 Sport airfield founded in the Lippe meadows.
*1965 A1 (motorway) reaches Hamm.
*1976 Coal-mine Sachsen closes
*1983 Windsor Boys' School closes –  [https://www.cicadastudio.com/wbshamm View the Virtual Tour of the Windsor School / Windsor Boys School Hamm, Germany]
[[File:Hamm Sri Kamadchi Ampal-Tempel.jpg|right|thumb|250 px|Sri Kamadchi Ampal Temple Hamm]]
*1984 First ''Landesgartenschau'' (horticultural show of the federal state) of North Rhine-Westphalia is held in Hamm. The old area of the coal-mine Maximillian was used for this purpose. The world largest glass elephant (Glaselefant) is built as the main attraction and until today is one of the major landmarks of the city.
*1990 Coal-mine Radbod closes.
*2002 Consecration of the Sri Kamadchi Ampal-Temple
*2005 Establishment of the university of applied sciences "SRH Fachhochschule Hamm"

===Population development===
{{citation needed|date=November 2015}}
Until 1833 any population is an approximation, in later times the population was counted or updated by the local government or other institutions of the government. 
{| 
| valign="top" |
{|class="wikitable"
! style="background:#efefef;" | year
! style="background:#efefef;" | population
|-
| 1618 || align="right" | 1,000
|-
| 1719 || align="right" | 3,250
|-
| 1798 || align="right" | 3,065
|-
| 1818 || align="right" | 4,680
|-
| 1832 || align="right" | 6,272
|-
| 3 December 1861 ¹ || align="right" | 11,600
|-
| 3 December 1867 ¹ || align="right" | 16,000
|-
| 1 December 1871 ¹ || align="right" | 16,924
|-
| 1 December 1875 ¹ || align="right" | 18,877
|-
| 1 December 1880 ¹ || align="right" | 20,800
|-
| 1 December 1885 ¹ || align="right" | 22,523
|-
| 1 December 1890 ¹ || align="right" | 24,969
|-
| 2 December 1895 ¹ || align="right" | 28,589
|-
|}
| valign="top" |
{|class="wikitable"
! style="background:#efefef;" | year
! style="background:#efefef;" | population
|-
| 1 December 1900 ¹ || align="right" | 31,371
|-
| 1 December 1905 ¹ || align="right" | 38,429
|-
| 1 December 1910 ¹ || align="right" | 43,663
|-
| 1 December 1916 ¹ || align="right" | 40,776
|-
| 5 December 1917 ¹ || align="right" | 40,516
|-
| 8 October 1919 ¹ || align="right" | 45,756
|-
| 16 June 1925 ¹ || align="right" | 49,777
|-
| 16 June 1933 ¹ || align="right" | 53,532
|-
| 17 May 1939 ¹ || align="right" | 59,035
|-
| 31 December 1945 || align="right" | 50,971
|-
| 29 October 1946 ¹ || align="right" | 49,751
|-
| 13 September 1950 ¹ || align="right" | 59,866
|-
| 25 September 1956 ¹ || align="right" | 66,327
|-
|}
| valign="top" |
{|class="wikitable"
! style="background:#efefef;" | year
! style="background:#efefef;" | population
|-
| 6 June 1961 ¹ || align="right" | 70,641
|-
| 31 December 1965 || align="right" | 73,520
|-
| 27 May 1970 ¹ || align="right" | 84,942
|-
| 31 December 1975 || align="right" | 172,210
|-
| 31 December 1980 || align="right" | 171,869
|-
| 31 December 1985 || align="right" | 166,379
|-
| 25 May 1987 ¹ || align="right" | 171,170
|-
| 31 December 1990 || align="right" | 179,639
|-
| 31 December 1995 || align="right" | 183,408
|-
| 31 December 2000 || align="right" | 181,197
|-
| 31 December 2005 || align="right" | 180,849
|}
|}
¹ "Volkszählungsergebnis" counted population

{| class="infobox" style="float:center;"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2" | '''Significant minority groups'''
|-
! Nationality || Population (2022)
|-
|{{flag|Turkey}} || 9,309
|-
|{{flag|Poland}} || 3,255
|-
|{{flag|Bulgaria}} || 2,034
|-
|{{flag|Ukraine}} || 1,927
|-
|{{flag|Syria}} || 1,744
|-
|{{flag|Serbia}} || 1,563
|-
|{{flag|Romania}} || 1,143
|-
|{{flag|Iraq}}|| 871
|-
|{{flag|Morocco}}|| 795
|-
|{{flag|Croatia}} || 743
|-
|{{flag|Italy}}|| 631
|-
|{{flag|Russia}} || 583
|-
|{{flag|Afghanistan}}|| 504
|-
|{{flag|Sri Lanka}}||386
|-
|{{flag|Hungary}}|| 313
|}