the A1 and A45 motorways and routes 54, 226 and 234. Public facilities Herdecke is home to the anthroposophic hospital Gemeinschaftskrankenhaus Herdecke. A school for the civil service is located in Haus Ende. Education There are five primary schools (im Dorf, Kirchende, Robert-Bonnermann, Schraberg, Vinkenberg), a special school (Albert-Schweitzer-Schule), two secondary schools (Am Sonnenstein, Am Bleichstein) and a high school (Friedrich-Harkort-Schule). A musical school and an adult evening school also exist. The Witten/Herdecke University is located in adjacent Witten. The "Herdecke" part of the name refers to the hospital Gemeinschaftskrankenhaus Herdecke, which cooperates with the university. Social organisations Fire brigade Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe Deutsches Rotes Kreuz Deutsche Lebens-Rettungs-Gesellschaft Media Several local newspapers exist. Herdecke is sometimes reported on in radio and TV stations nearby (e.g. in Dortmund or Hagen). Companies The biggest employer is the hospital. Some famous German companies like Dörken, Dörken MKS-Systeme or Idealspaten are located in Herdecke. WestfaliaSurge, one of the world's leading milking machine producers, left Herdecke in 2005 after 30 years. Notable people Antje Jackelén, German-Swedish Lutheran Archbishop of Uppsala and primate of the Church of Sweden Jürgen Klopp, German football coach (Liverpool F.C.) Stephan Letter, serial killer and former nurse accused of murdering patients Hank Levine, movie director and producer Lars Ricken, German football player (Borussia Dortmund) Irmingard Schewe-Gerigk, member of German Bundestag [[Naziha al-Dulaimi, the first female minister in the history of Iraq and the region, Al-Dulaimi is one of the pioneers of the Iraqi women's movement. She was born in 1923 in Baghdad and entered the College of Medicine in Baghdad in 1941. Al-Dulaimi belonged to the Iraqi Communist Party in 1948, and in 1959 she assumed the Ministry of Municipalities in the government of Abdul Karim Qasim. Naziha al-Dulaimi played an important role in issuing the Personal Status Law in Iraq in 1959. References External links Official site Heimatverein-Herdecke.de Facebook Group "Du bist Herdecker, wenn" Towns in North Rhine-Westphalia Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis