Mettmann
Mettmann () is a town in the northern part of the Bergisches Land, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the administrative centre of the district of Mettmann, Germany's most densely populated rural district. The town lies east of Düsseldorf and west of Wuppertal. A local variety of the Limburgish language called Metmannsch Platt is spoken in town.
Key facts
- German place.type
- Stadt
- German place.name
- Mettmann
- German place.image_photo
- Mettmann, toren van de Sankt Lambertuskirche in straatzicht Dm70 foto11 2014-03-30 12.02.jpg
- German place.image_flag
- Flagge Mettmann.svg
- German place.image_coa
- DEU Mettmann COA.svg
- German place.image_plan
- Mettmann in ME.svg
- German place.state
- Nordrhein-Westfalen
- German place.region
- Düsseldorf
- German place.district
- Mettmann
- German place.elevation
- 125
- German place.area
- 42.56
- German place.postal_code
- 40822
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Mettmann () is a town in the northern part of the Bergisches Land, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the administrative centre of the district of Mettmann, Germany's most densely populated rural district. The town lies east of Düsseldorf and west of Wuppertal. A local variety of the Limburgish language called Metmannsch Platt is spoken in town.
==History== Located on the ancient trade route "strata coloniensis" the Lotharingian hamlet of Medamana (engl. between the streams, which bears an etymological similarity to the origins of the name for the Northern Italian city of Milan (lat. Mediolanum)) first appeared in the charter of the last Carolingian King, Louis the Child, 904 AD, thus existing "officially" for more than 1100 years.
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