Lintorf is a village at the transition of the

Berg Berg may refer to: People *Berg (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) *Berg Ng (born 1960), Hong Kong actor * Berg (footballer) (born 1989), Brazilian footballer Former states *Berg (state), county and duchy of the Holy ...

region into the lower Rhine plain in

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a States of Germany, state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more tha ...

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. Since 1975 it has been a quarter of the city of

Ratingen Ratingen ( li, Rotinge) is a town in the district of Mettmann in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It lies in the northwestern part of Berg about 12 km northeast of Düsseldorf. Administration With a communal reform of 1975 the independent mu ...

History, geography & transport

Lintorf was suburbanised in 1975. Ratingen belongs to the Mettmann district in the Düsseldorf region (

state). Before then, Lintorf was an independent municipality and seat of administration of

Amt Amt is a type of administrative division governing a group of municipalities, today only in Germany, but formerly also common in other countries of Northern Europe. Its size and functions differ by country and the term is roughly equivalent to ...

Angermund (since early 14th century; 1929-1950 ''"Amt Ratingen-Land"''; 1950-1974 ''"Amt Angerland"''). Lintorf is on the Cologne-Ratingen-Duisburg line, but since 1985 has had no train stations. The place is connected by

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s A52 (

Essen Essen (; Latin: ''Assindia'') is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and D ...

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Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in th ...

, exit Ratingen Tiefenbroich), A524 (autobahn interchange Breitscheid—

Krefeld Krefeld ( , ; li, Krieëvel ), also spelled Crefeld until 1925 (though the spelling was still being used in British papers throughout the Second World War), is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located northwest of Düsseldorf, i ...

, exit Ratingen-Lintorf), A3 (

Oberhausen Oberhausen (, ) is a city on the river Emscher in the Ruhr Area, Germany, located between Duisburg and Essen ( ). The city hosts the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and its Gasometer Oberhausen is an anchor point of the European Rout ...

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Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...

, exit A52). The old boundary lies in the northern edge of the approach lane of the

Düsseldorf Airport Düsseldorf Airport (german: link=no, Flughafen Düsseldorf, ; until March 2013 ''Düsseldorf International Airport''; ) is the international airport of Düsseldorf, the capital of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is about north ...

(3 km runway). Lintorf was the site of a

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after

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, providing a home for Ukrainians, Poles and Yugoslavs awaiting immigration. Ratingen has been the site of a war crime in April 1945. The bodies of eight German anti-Nazis, one woman and two Polish men were found lying in woods near the town. In the first half of the 20th century,

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and

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was mined. In the period after World War II, the auto manufacturer

Hoffmann Hoffmann is a German language, German surname. People A *Albert Hoffmann (horticulturist), Albert Hoffmann (1846–1924), German horticulturist *Alexander Hoffmann (politician), Alexander Hoffmann (born 1975), German politician *Arthur Hoffmann ...

(licensed production of the

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scooter), the company Constructa (

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s), as well as the company Hünnebeck (metal scaffold construction). A rural scattered housing estate developed in the time after World War II from suburban residents of the surrounding cities, primarily from Düsseldorf (12 km). The surrounding forests are a popular scenic area. Since 19th century, population has grown from 872 (1816) to 15,162 (2014).Population of Ratingen and its quarters
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Gallery

File:43 Katholische Kirche St. Anna A43-9.JPG, Catholic church St. Anna File:Ratingen-Lintorf Ulenbroich 1-3.jpg, Ulenbroich 1-3 File:Ratingen Lintorf Speestrasse 10.jpg, Haus Merks File:Ratingen-Lintorf Helpensteinmühle01.jpg, Helpenstein mill, est. 1157 File:Ratingen Lintorf Krummenweger Strasse 223.jpg, Krummenweger Str. 223 File:Ratingen-Lintorf Lintorfer Markt 24.jpg, Lintorfer Markt 24 File:34 Evangelische Kirche und Pfarrhaus A34-1.JPG, Protestant church File:Friedrichskothen-Ratingen-Lintdorf-2016.jpg, Lintorfer Markt 20 File:Ratingen-Lintorf Helpensteinmühle03.jpg, Helpenstein mill File:Ratingen-Lintorf Beekerhof01.jpg, Beekerhof File:Ratingen-Lintorf Gut Porz.jpg, Gut Porz File:Ratingen-Lintorf Helpensteinmühle02.jpg, Helpenstein mill File:Ratingen-Lintorf Helpensteinmühle04.jpg, Helpenstein mill and Dickelsbach
("little dyke" brook) File:Ratingen-Lintorf Hoffmann-Werke02.jpg, Hoffmann factory File:Ratingen-Lintorf Kirche St Anna.jpg, Catholic church Saint Anna

Notable people

* Johann Peter Melchior (1747–1825), sculptor and porcelain artist *Jakob Oswald Hoffmann (1896–1972), entrepreneur (Hoffmann-Werke Lintorf) * Kurt Krüger (1920–2003), footballer *Bastian Fleermann, historian *

Dieter Nuhr Dieter Herbert Nuhr (born 29 October 1960) is a German kabarett artist, comedian, author and television presenter. Nuhr's stage program ''nuhr in Berlin'' (the title is a pun; for explanation, see below) is the first German stand-up comedy whic ...

(born 1960), comedian,

kabarett Kabarett (; from French ''cabaret'' = tavern) is satirical revue, a form of cabaret which developed in France by Rodolphe Salis in 1881 as the ''cabaret artistique''. It was named Le Chat Noir and was centered on political events and satire. It ...

ist (German

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, mostly

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) and author

External links

* (in German) * with photos of Lintorf (in German) * of the Lintorfer of association for local history (in German) * *https://web.archive.org/web/20040927165544/http://www.ratingenweb.de/ * *{{cite web , url=http://www.cine-holocaust.de/cgi-bin/gdq?efw00fbw000865.gd , title=Atrocity. Ratingen. Germany [13-May-1945]. D: ? [US, 1945] , publisher=Cine-holocaust.de , date=1945-05-13 , accessdate=2013-05-07 , url-status=dead , archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217045520/http://www.cine-holocaust.de/cgi-bin/gdq?efw00fbw000865.gd , archivedate=2012-02-17

References

Former municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia Mettmann (district)