HAGEN, a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Westphalia. Pop. (1933) 148,426. It lies at the confluence of the Ennepe with the Volme, 15 m. N.E. of Elberfeld, on the main line to Brunswick and Berlin, and at the junction of important railway lines, connecting it with the principal towns of the West phalian iron district. Hagen has extensive iron and steel works, large cotton print works, manufactures of leather, paper, tobacco, and iron and steel wares, sugar, breweries and distilleries. There are large limestone quarries in the vicinity and also an alabaster quarry.