The street is located north of the city's main railway station Dortmund Hauptbahnhof in the Stadtbezirk Innenstadt-Nord district.

[12] Prostitution in Linienstraße was temporarily suspended in mid-March 2020 as part of the preventative measures introduced during the coronavirus pandemic.

[2] At the instigation of the Midnight Mission a series of "round table" discussions about prostitution in the city took place, starting in 2002.

The model is to a degree self-regulating; the brothel operators and existing prostitutes ensure that new women working in Linienstraße are over 18, have necessary documentation and are not under the control of a pimp.

[8] In a 2007, the German Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth's Report by the Federal Government on the Impact of the Act Regulating the Legal Situation of Prostitutes (Prostitution Act) noted the positive feedback that Dortmund Police had given the "Dortmund model".