Ratingen

Ratingen

Infobox Ort in Deutschland
Art = Stadt
Wappen = Wappen Ratingen.pnglat_deg = 51 |lat_min = 18 | lat_sec=0
lon_deg = 6 |lon_min = 51 | lon_sec=0
Lageplan =
Bundesland = Nordrhein-Westfalen
Regierungsbezirk = Düsseldorf
Kreis = Mettmann
Höhe = 50
Fläche = 88.72
Einwohner = 92256
Stand = 2007-06-30
PLZ = 40878–40885 (1962-1995: 4030)
Vorwahl = 02102
Kfz = ME, seit 1975 (1956-1974: D)
Gemeindeschlüssel = 05 1 58 028
NUTS = DEA1C
LOCODE = DE RAT
Gliederung = 6 Gemeindebezirke mit 10 Stadtteilen
Adresse = Minoritenstraße 2-6
40878 Ratingen
Website = [http://www.ratingen.de/ www.ratingen.de]
Bürgermeister = Harald Birkenkamp
Partei = Bürger-Union Ratingen

Ratingen is a town in the district of Mettmann, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the northwestern part of Berg - about 12 km northeast of Düsseldorf. It is twinned with Blyth Valley, England. [cite web
title=Town twinning
work=www.blythvalley.gov.uk
url=http://www.blythvalley.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page=7330
accessdate=2007-06-04
]

Administration

With a communal reform of 1975 the independent municipalities of Breitscheid, Eggerscheidt, Hösel, Lintorf (seat Angerland) as well as the local part of Homberg and the municipality of Homberg-Meiersberg (seat Hubbelrath) were added into the city of Ratingen.

History

Ratingen was settled before 849. Since the Middle Ages, the Ratingen area belonged to the count and later dukes of Berg. On December 11, 1276 the settlement received city rights. Ratingen was one of the four places of Berg which experienced an economic boom in the end of the Middle Ages, but slowed down during the Thirty Years' War. At the beginning of the Industrial Age, the first manufacturing plants opened in 1783. In Cromford the first mechanical spinnery of Europe opened, which grew into the "Textilfabrik Cromford", now part of the "Rheinisches Industriemuseum" (Rhine Industry Museum). In the Napoleonic times, it became part of the city of Berg and in 1815, into the Kingdom of Prussia.

In the communal re-organization of 1929, Ratingen maintained its independence. After relatively small war damage, Ratingen in the 1960s and the 1970s experienced years the growth and development (West Ratingen with 20,000 inhabitants, developed in the late 1960s-1980s). Several important international enterprises (particularly from the IT industry) as Vodafone, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, SAP, CEMEX, Tiptel and Esprit maintain branches and/or main centers in Ratingen. In 1970, before further incorporations the number of inhabitants surpassed 50,000.

People

* Dieter Nuhr, comedian
* Marius Müller-Westernhagen, rock musician and actor
* Claudia Jung, folk singer
* Sönke Wortmann, director
* Christian Kohmann, Ice-Hockey Player (Kassel Huskies,DEL;Season 05/06)
* Tahir Cevik alias PuffBaba, Hip Hop musician and actor
* Ilya Malyanov, creative

References

External links

* [http://www.ratingen.de/ Official Website, in German]
* [http://www.ratingenweb.de/ ratingenweb - local magazine, in German]
* [http://www.lux-ratingen.de/ LUX - local community center]


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