Leichlingen (Rhine country)

coat of arms	map
coat of arms illustration on city leichlingen.de
base data
Land of the Federal Republic:	North Rhine-Westphalia
governmental district:	Cologne
district:	Rheinisch Bergi circle
surface:	37.33 km ²
inhabitants:	27.524 (31. December 2004)
Population density:	737 Einwohner/km ²
height:	54-250 m and. NN
postal zip code:	42799
preselection:	02175 and 02174 (quarter joke hero)
geographical situation:	Coordinates: 51° 07 ' n. Break, 7° 01 ' o. L.51° 07 ' n. Break, 7° 01 ' o. L.
Kfz characteristic:	GL
municipality key:	05 3 78 016
city arrangement:	2 local parts
Address of the city administration:	At the Büscherhof 1 42799 Leichlingen (Rhine country)
official Website:	www.leichlingen.de
Politics
mayor:	Ernst Müller (SPD)

Leichlingen is a city in the Rheinisch Bergi circle and lies in the Land of the Federal Republic North Rhine-Westphalia.

Table of contents 1 Geografie 1,1 layer of 1,2 neighbour municipalities 1,3 city arrangement 2 population 2,1 population trend 2,2 age structure 3 religions 4 history 5 politics of 5,1 mayors 5,2 town councillor 5,3 coats of arms 5,4 partnerships between cities 6 traffic 7 culture and objects of interest of 7,1 buildings 7,2 regular meetings 8 personalities of 8,1 sons and daughters thatCity Leichlingen 9 Web on the left of

Geografie

layer

also “bloom city” mentioned, is to Leichlingen in the northern Zipfel of the Rheinisch Bergi circle between the concentration cores Cologne, Leverkusen and Duesseldorf, with flowing city boundary to Solingen, because of the edge of theBergi country in delightful central mountain landscape.

The city rises from the west eastward and exhibits altitudes between 54 m and 250 m over NN . In the north of the city the natural and political border is the Wupper. Likewise becomesthe southern delimitation of the city in an educated manner by a natural border, the Murbach and the dam Diepental. The western and eastern delimitation takes place via the motorways A3/E 35 and A1/E 37.

The largest expansion of the city in east west direction amounts to approx.11.5 km. In north south direction the area is substantially narrower and amounts to in the largest expansion approx. 4.6 km.

neighbour municipalities

in the north Leichlingen borders on Solingen, in the south on Burscheid, in the east on Wermelskirchen and inThe west at Leverkusen and length field.

city arrangement

Leichlingen consists of six quarters:

• Joke hero (since the local regional reorganization 1975) in the east of the city.
• Bar
• Oberschmitte
• Bennert
• Dierath
• Oberbüscherhof

population

population trend

Year	Inhabitant
1990	25,996
2003	27,319
2004	27,524
2005	29,108

of it in the year 2005: 15.132 female, 13,976 male

age structure

Age group	inhabitant
0-5 years	1,534
6-15 years	3,207
16-20 years	1,518
21-45 years	9,709
46-64 years	6,992
starting from 65Years	6,148

religions

in Leichlingen are mainly three church municipalities represented:

• Evangelist municipality in Leichlingen and joke hero
• catholic church municipality in Leichlingen
• Evangelist-freechurch municipalities in Leichlingen, world PUCB oh and Kuhle

history

provable begins the history of Leichlingenin the year 973 n. Chr., when archbishop Gero of Cologne in “Leigelingon” the building of a monastery ordered, which was however never built. The place emerges 1019 as “Leichlingin” again in a document, as an archbishop Heribert of Cologne church andYard to Leichlingen the monastery Deutz gave. Since that 11. Century was an abbott to Deutz basic gentleman of the Gemarkung Leichlingen, whose center in the area between the today's Evangelist church and the former main yard of the monastery, for which “book yard” was appropriate. Right andparticularly on the left of the Wupper belonged still 21 smaller goods, some knight and gentleman seats such as house Vorst, Nesselrath, Leysiefen, Diepental, Eicherhof and other one as well as large forest possession in Oberleichlingen until 1803 to the monastery Deutz. The inhabitants operated agriculture and fishing.

Alreadyin 12. Century was Leichlingen Kirchort. In 14. The first Schleifereien to the Wupper and in the side valleys, which oil, grain and milling mills followed, developed for century. They were the forerunners of the today's metal and textile industry. Over centuries leave themselvesSchleifer, webers, Bleicher, Färber and Gerber prove. Nevertheless lived the inhabitants to in 19. Besides century mainly of the agriculture and operated cultivation of fruit.

Around the center 19. Century began the actual development Leichlingens to the city, howit today admits is. The building of the railway line Cologne Wuppertal created the traffic-moderate conditions for the first industrial settlements. In the year 1856 Leichlingen municipal rights were lent

to politics

mayor

mayor: Ernst Müller (SPD)

deputy mayors:

• ErikaHorsthemke (SPD)
• Gerhard slope ore (CDU)

town councillor

the 34 seats of the town councillor distribute themselves as follows:

• SPD of 15 seats
• CDU 11 seats
• UWG of 4 seats
• the Greens of 2 seats
• FDP of 2 seats

(conditions: Local election to 26. September 2004)

coat of arms

the coat of arms shows the blue-crowned, blue-reinforced and double swan goats red bergischen lions in the sign divided wavily by silver and blue in the upper field, in the lower field a silver fish with red fins. The fish, symbol for thatformer fish wealth of the Wupper, is taken over from the coat of arms of the sex of Vorst, whose castle towers above the valley of the Wupper today still impressively on a rock projection/lead.

partnerships between cities

Leichlingen maintains and maintains to three cities of the European foreign countryPartnerships between cities:

• Henley on Thames (Great Britain ) as characteristic
• everyone is dedicated Funchal
• / larva Irish Republican Army (Portugal

) to Marly le Roi (France) the Wupperbrücken in Leichlingen of a twin city and carries their names.

traffic

Leichlingen is because of the railroad line of Cologne to Wuppertal over Leverkusen - Opladen and Solingen - Ohligs and is started halfonce per hour by the regional course RB48.

culture and objects of interest

of buildings

as buildings particularly worth seeing apply in Leichlingen:

• Evgl. Town church with baroque equipment.
• HouseEicherhof (in the vernacular: Lock Eicherhof)
• house Vorst
• house Nesselrath

regular meetings

even in the further periphery is Leichlingen by the fruit market well-known, which takes place annually in October. Exactly the same is on the same weekend the taking place harvest thank celebration admits in joke heroes, whose is high point a fixed removal on Sunday.

to personalities

of sons and daughters of the city Leichlingen

• Rudolf Geller (1894-1973), weaving mill founder
• Karl-Heinz loud-young (1914-2000), professor for nuclear physics
• Julius POH-lie (1842-1916), engineer and entrepreneur
• Friedrich overtravel (1826-1871), philosopher
• Wolfgang Carpenter (* 1949), politicians

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