Lindlar
Encyclopedia
Lindlar is a municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia
, Germany
. It is located about 30 km east of Cologne
.
, Wipperfürth
, Overath
and Bergisch Gladbach
, and the neighbouring municipalities are Engelskirchen
, Marienheide
and Kürten
.
The eldest available records mentioning Lindlar -then known as Lintlo- date back to the year 1109. But as an older document from the year 958 cites the transferral of the Kaldenkapellen -now Hohkeppel- church to the Severinsstift in Cologne and as the former was then provably subordinated to the parish church in Lindlar, this church must have already existed in that year or even up to a few decades earlier.
In the course of time more and more woods were stubed, both by the farmers and on order of the landlords. Centers of the expansion were the so called "Fronhöfe" and the "Herrenhöfe". Here the farmers had to pay their tenth and the work of courts and administration were done.
The "Bergische Land" was divided in departments and circuits. The area around Lindlar, including Wipperfeld, Bechen, Kürten, Olpe, Lindlar, Overath, Engelskirchen, Hohkeppel and Wipperfürth formed the department of Steinbach. Steinbach is a small village next to Lindlar and was named after the castle of Steinbach.
In this time a county court was set up in Lindlar. In 1440 Hohkeppel and in 1554 Engelskirchen had their own parish churches.
In 1806 Napoleon bestowed upon the county of Berg the honour of being a grand duchy. The county court in Lindlar remained, but was renamed in "Friedensgericht". Furthermore the "canton Lindlar" was formed.
In 1904 a new townhall was built.
Now thus there is in Lindlar:
The municipality library Lindlar houses a great choice of books and is helped financially by a conveyor association, so that the lending is free so far.
parish
church "Sank Severin" was built in the 12th century. There are old Catholic churches in Hohkeppel and Linde. The Protestant church in Lindlar was built from 1954–56.
Lindlar, Ort
monuments in Lindlar
Churches in Lindlar
. In Lindlar there is also a branch of VHS.
, geriatrics
, internal medicine
, ENT
, urology
with connected doctor's house. Since 1999 cooperation with the Saint Josef hospital in Engelskirchen form of the Catholic
Kliniken Oberberg GmbH.
, its own leisure park. It was established between 1980 and 1982. There are a swimming pool
(Parkbad Lindlar), a crazy golf layout, a concert
space, an adventure game space, boot rental company as well as several investments is found for sport. The leisure
park directly borders on the castle park of the Castle Heiligenhoven and on the Lindlarer cultural centre.
The municipality has more than seven sports fields, a stadium with field as well as one with Aschenplatz, seven gym
nasiums, under it two big triple run halls and a gymnastics hall and two tennis court
s. Also, there is an indoor swimming pool, including sauna, fitness and sunbathing area and sports field, a sail
airfield, riding spaces, a golf
layout, a shooting gallery and skittle-alleys.
In Lindlar there are a lot of footpaths
and the streets have separate cycle lanes. Cyclists use, mainly, the forestry and countryside tracks.
Lindlar and its villages have a large number of associations which are well established. Most important are the protection associations, sports associations and native country associations
.
industry was in the environment of Lindlar, and stood economically in high blossom. Numerous iron hammer and furnaces were run there whose remaining stocks are to be found today partially still. by the way, the agriculture
and the down-to-earth craft
, for instance, the stone industry (reduction and processing of the greywacke), paper processing, home industry and file cutting was maintained. In addition, in the beginning of the 1980s a settlement of company took place in the new industrial zone of Klause.
. If this industry fork still hundred years ago was a main employer of the Lindlarer population, today only three producing companies exist. In many places former stone quarries which are today an important living space for all sorts of animal species are found. The Lindlarer greywacke was used on site to the construction
, examples for this are the steeple of the Catholic
parish church Saint Severin. Also it was sold in the other environment, for instance, to Cologne
. In this connection the Lindlarer railroad which transported the rock
till the 1960s by railway is worth mentioning. For this target led from the main reduction area - a brake road.
Olpe
) is linked up to the highway net. At the best to use the motorway at exit Engelskirchen
((in 7 kilometers of distance) or Overath-Untereschbach (15 kilometers).
Untereschbach or Engelskirchen). Also the ÖPNV is developed according to line very well.
Nevertheless, in the evening hours no bus
es operate.
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. It is located about 30 km east of Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
.
Geography
Lindlar is located between latitudes 50°58' and 51°5' N. and longitudes 7°15' and 7°28' E. The highest point at 361.8 ms is found near Oberlichtinghagen, the lowest at 110 ms near Oberbilstein.Neighbouring places
Neighbouring towns are GummersbachGummersbach
Gummersbach is a city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, being the district seat of the Oberbergischer Kreis. It is located 50 km east of Cologne. In the past it was nicknamed "the Lime Tree Town", because lime trees lined the main street...
, Wipperfürth
Wipperfürth
thumb|310px|Map of the citythumb|250px|Town hallWipperfürth is a municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis of North Rhine-Westfalia, Germany, about 40 km north-east of Cologne, and the oldest town in the Bergischen Land.-History:...
, Overath
Overath
Overath is a town in the Rheinisch-Bergischer district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.-Geography:Overath is located about 25 km east of Cologne, in the Bergisches Land...
and Bergisch Gladbach
Bergisch Gladbach
' is a city in the Cologne/Bonn Region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and capital of the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis .-Geography:Bergisch Gladbach is located east of the river Rhine, approx...
, and the neighbouring municipalities are Engelskirchen
Engelskirchen
Engelskirchen is a municipality in Oberbergischer Kreis, Germany in North Rhine-Westphalia, about 40 kilometers east of Cologne. The neighbouring municipalities are Overath, Lindlar, Gummersbach, Wiehl and Much.-History:...
, Marienheide
Marienheide
-History:The first documentary mention of the place was in 1417 " in a sales document is called Heydenreich of our dear Mrs. Knecht on the Mergenheyde " -History:The first documentary mention of the place was in 1417 " in a sales document is called Heydenreich of our dear Mrs. Knecht on the...
and Kürten
Kürten
Kürten is a village and a municipality in the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.-Neighbouring places:Nearby cities include Bergisch Gladbach, Overath, Wermelskirchen, and Wipperfürth...
.
Division of the municipality
The municipality of Lindlar is made up of these main villages: Lindlar (local centre), Frielingsdorf, Linde, Hohkeppel, Schmitzhöhe, Hartegasse/Kapellensüng.The coat of arms of Lindlar
The arms were granted on August 6, 1935. The arms show in the upper part the lion of the Counts of Berg and in the lower the balance as a symbol of justice. Lindlar had its own court in the County Berg. The arms are based on the old seal of the court and village of Lindlar.Settlement and first naming
It is likely that the area around Lindlar was settled in the stone age. While there is no ultimate proof for that, neolithic artifacts were found near Kemmerich and Fenke. Until the Middle Ages the area was covered with virgin forests; it can therefore be assumed that only few people, such as hunters, settled there.The eldest available records mentioning Lindlar -then known as Lintlo- date back to the year 1109. But as an older document from the year 958 cites the transferral of the Kaldenkapellen -now Hohkeppel- church to the Severinsstift in Cologne and as the former was then provably subordinated to the parish church in Lindlar, this church must have already existed in that year or even up to a few decades earlier.
Till 1815
The tower of the parish church of Lindlar was built in the 12th century and remains till today, although the tower's roof was built in the 18th century. A nave was lustrated in the year of 1500, and the present nave was built in 1826. The village of Lindlar was centred around the church.In the course of time more and more woods were stubed, both by the farmers and on order of the landlords. Centers of the expansion were the so called "Fronhöfe" and the "Herrenhöfe". Here the farmers had to pay their tenth and the work of courts and administration were done.
The "Bergische Land" was divided in departments and circuits. The area around Lindlar, including Wipperfeld, Bechen, Kürten, Olpe, Lindlar, Overath, Engelskirchen, Hohkeppel and Wipperfürth formed the department of Steinbach. Steinbach is a small village next to Lindlar and was named after the castle of Steinbach.
In this time a county court was set up in Lindlar. In 1440 Hohkeppel and in 1554 Engelskirchen had their own parish churches.
In 1806 Napoleon bestowed upon the county of Berg the honour of being a grand duchy. The county court in Lindlar remained, but was renamed in "Friedensgericht". Furthermore the "canton Lindlar" was formed.
1815 - 1870
After 1815 the whole Rhineland became part of Preußen and the "district Wipperfürth" was set up. In 1828 the population of Lindlar was 5430, 5396 were Catholic and only 34 Protestants.1871–1918
In 1882 an auxiliary fire brigade in Lindlar was arranged. A new building for the county court in Lindlar had to be built in 1895. In 1897 the municipal council first reflected upon the idea of a railway connection to Lindlar. The idea was to build a connection to Immekeppel where a train to Cologne departed and arrived. In 1906 this was allowed by the government and the railway Cologne – Bergisch Gladbach – Immekeppel – Lindlar was opened in 1912. There were several elementary schools in Lindlar: in the town of Lindlar, Linde, Waldbruch, Süng, Frielingsdorf, Hohkeppel, Schmitzhöhe and Kalkofen. Since the priest Johannes Fischer and the carpenter Christian MIebach gave their legacy for a new hospital, a hospital was built in Lindlar and opened in 1891.In 1904 a new townhall was built.
Population of Lindlar
| Year | Population | Year | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1816 | 5.050 | 1958 | 11.069 |
| 1825 | 5.406 | 1968 | 12.837 |
| 1828 | 5.430 | 1974 | 13.831 |
| 1890 | 6.292 | 1992 | 19.800 |
| 1922 | 6.670 | 1995 | 20.945 |
| 1938 | 6.939 | 1999 | 21.750 |
| 1946 | 10.339 | 2002 | 22.581 |
| 2004 | 22.132 | ||
Localities
| North: Wipperfürth Wipperfürth thumb|310px|Map of the citythumb|250px|Town hallWipperfürth is a municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis of North Rhine-Westfalia, Germany, about 40 km north-east of Cologne, and the oldest town in the Bergischen Land.-History:... | ||
| West: Kürten Kürten Kürten is a village and a municipality in the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.-Neighbouring places:Nearby cities include Bergisch Gladbach, Overath, Wermelskirchen, and Wipperfürth... | Lindlar | East: Gummersbach Gummersbach Gummersbach is a city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, being the district seat of the Oberbergischer Kreis. It is located 50 km east of Cologne. In the past it was nicknamed "the Lime Tree Town", because lime trees lined the main street... |
| South: Engelskirchen Engelskirchen Engelskirchen is a municipality in Oberbergischer Kreis, Germany in North Rhine-Westphalia, about 40 kilometers east of Cologne. The neighbouring municipalities are Overath, Lindlar, Gummersbach, Wiehl and Much.-History:... |
| A | Abrahamstal - Altenhof - Altenrath | ||
| B | Berg - Berghäuschen - Berghausen - Böhl - Bolzenbach - Bomerich - Bonnersüng - Breun - Brochhagen - Bruch - Brückerhof - Buchholz - Burg | ||
| D | Dassiefen - Diepenbach - Dutztal | ||
| E | Ebbinghausen - Eibach - Eibachhof - Eibacherhammer - Eichholz - Ellersbach | ||
| F | Fahn - Falkenhof - Feld - Fenke - Felsenthal - Frangenberg - Frielinghausen - Frielingsdorf | ||
| G | Localities | ||
| H | Hammen - Hartegasse - Hausgrund - Heibach - Heiligenhoven - Helle - Herkenhähn - Hinterrübach - Hönighausen - Hoffstadt - Hohbusch - Hohkeppel - Holl - Holz - Hommerich - Horpe | ||
| K | Kaiserau - Kalkofen - Kaltenborn - Kapellensüng - Kaufmannsommer - Kemmerich - Kepplermühle - Klause - Klespe - Kleuelshöhe - Köttingen - Krähenhof - Krähsiefen - Kuhlbach - Kurtenbach | ||
| L | Leienhöhe - Lenneferberg - Lennefermühle - Lichtinghagen - Linde - Lingenbach - Löhsüng - Loxsteeg | ||
| M | Merlenbach - Mittelbreidenbach - Mittelbrochhagen - Mittelheiligenhoven - Mittelsteinbach - Müllemich - Müllerhof - Müllersommer | ||
| O | Oberbilstein - Oberschümmerich - Obersülze - Obersteinbach - Ohl - Orbach | ||
| N | Neuenfeld - Niederhabbach | ||
| O | Oberbergscheid - Oberbreidenbach - Oberbrochhagen - Oberbüschem - Oberfeld - Oberfrielingshausen - Oberhabbach - Oberheiligenhoven - Oberhürholz - Oberkotten - Oberlichtinghagen - Ommerborn | Q | Quabach |
| R | Rehbach - Remshagen - Reudenbach - Roderwiese - Rölenommer - Rübach | ||
| S | Schätzmühle - Scheel - Scheelermühle - Scheller - Scheurenhof - Schlürscheid - Schlüsselberg - Schmitzhöhe - Schneppensiefen - Schönenborn - Schümmerich - Schwarzenbach - Siebensiefen - Sieferhof - Spich - Steinenbrache - Steinenbrücke - Steinscheid - Stelberg - Stolzenbach - Stoppenbach - Süng - Süttenbach | ||
| T | Tannenhof - Tüschem | ||
| U | Unterbergscheid - Unterbüschem - Unterbreidenbach - Unterbrochhagen - Unterfeld - Unterfrielingshausen - Unterheiligenhoven - Unterhürholz - Unterkotten - Unterlichtinghagen - Unterommer - Unterschümmerich - Untersteinbach - Untersülze | ||
| V | Vellingen - Vorderrübach - Voßbruch | ||
| W | Waldbruch - Waldheim - Wallerscheid - Weiersbach - Welzen - Weyer - Wiedfeld - Wiesengrund - Wilhelmshöhe - Wurtscheid - Wüstenhof | ||
| Z | Zäun |
Church municipalities
Up to the Second World War Lindlar was predominantly a Catholic, Protestant inhabitant had to be established on account of the increased number in 1956 a Protestant church. In addition, at the beginning 1990s a Protestant free church and a neuapastolische church settled.Now thus there is in Lindlar:
- 6 Catholic churches in Lindlar, Frielingsdorf, Kapellensüng, Linde, Schmitzhöhe and Hohkeppel
- 2 Protestant churches in Lindlar and Frielingsdorf
- a Protestant free church in Lindlar
- a New Apostolic ChurchNew Apostolic ChurchThe New Apostolic Church is a chiliastic church, converted to Protestantism as a free church from the Catholic Apostolic Church. The church has existed since 1879 in Germany and since 1897 in the Netherlands...
in Lindlar
Cultural facilities
Lindlar disposes of a great cultural centre (more than 800 places) in the regularly theatrical arrangement and music arrangements take place. Smaller arrangements help themselves of the council hall " old school " in Eichenhofstrasse.The municipality library Lindlar houses a great choice of books and is helped financially by a conveyor association, so that the lending is free so far.
Markets
Regularly flea markets, art craftsman markets, farm markets take place in the Bergischen open-air museum as well as a Christmas fair. As a specific feature an old-timer market takes place in Lindlar - Schmitzhöhe.Museums
From the place lies there not far the Bergische open-air museum Lindlar, it is accessible about the RB25 and the bus line 332 or the SB42 from Cologne or Lindlar. Besides, in Lindlar-Altenrath there is a curiosity museum.Places of interest
The municipality marks itself "tourism municipality" (resort and leisure place). The historical local cores of Lindlar, Hohkeppel and Linde are worth seeing. In addition, one sees with the walking on the extensive footpath net often one of the road crosses and also many smaller chapels.Castles
In the local area lie the castle ruins "Ruine Eibach", "Neuenberg" and "Unterheiligenhoven", as well as this "castle Heiligenhoven " and the "castle Georghausen ".Churches
The CatholicCatholic
The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
parish
Parish
A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...
church "Sank Severin" was built in the 12th century. There are old Catholic churches in Hohkeppel and Linde. The Protestant church in Lindlar was built from 1954–56.
Museums
The "Bergische Freilichtmuseum Lindlar" (an open-air museum about agriculture in the "Bergisches Land") and a "Kuriositätenmuseum" (a museum about odditys) are located in Lindlar.Buildings and monuments
Lindlar, Marketplace- Altes Amtshaus: In the 18th century a peace-treaty between France and Austria was signed in this building.
- Haus Prinz: a timbered house build in 1750.
Lindlar, Ort
- Schmiede Lamsfuß (a blacksmith's shop), Hauptstraße, build in the 18th century, 1986 restored.
- Amtsgericht Lindlar, Pollerhofstraße: the building of the former country court of lindlar.
- Alte Winterschule, Pollerhofstraße: an old school for farmer's children ("winter-school"). Today the building hosts a cosy and culturally attractive hotel-restaurant "artgenossen".http://www.artgenossen-gmbh.de
- Haus Kelleter, Bachstraße.
- Haus der Begegnung, the former townhall.
- Haus Gronewald
- katholic rectory
- Ratssaal "Alte Schule".
monuments in Lindlar
- war memorial, Eichenhofstraße, 1877
- Lindlar's "Besemsbänger", Eichenhofstraße, memorial made of wood. A "Besemsbänger" is a person who binds besoms.
- A Quarryman's family, Marketplace.
Churches in Lindlar
- Katholic parish church St. Severin
- Protestant church
Schools and educational facilities
In Lindlar are six elementary schools in different villages: Frielingsdorf, Kapellensüng, Linde, Schmitzhöhe, Lindlar west and the Lindlar east. As grammar schools a secondary modern school, a secondary modern school, a high school as well as a special school exist for LB- and E-pupil. Secondary modern school are accommodated in a school center and not far of it the high school founded in 1997. The next work pedagogic equipment is in WipperfürthWipperfürth
thumb|310px|Map of the citythumb|250px|Town hallWipperfürth is a municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis of North Rhine-Westfalia, Germany, about 40 km north-east of Cologne, and the oldest town in the Bergischen Land.-History:...
. In Lindlar there is also a branch of VHS.
Public facilities
- Youth office satellite station Lindlar
- Lindlar Touristik
- District agency of the police inspection the north DistrictDistrictDistricts are a type of administrative division, in some countries managed by a local government. They vary greatly in size, spanning entire regions or counties, several municipalities, or subdivisions of municipalities.-Austria:...
- district police authority of the Oberbergischer Kreis - Voluntary fire department with four units fire brigade Lindlar, fire brigade Frielingsdorf, fire-fighting team Hohkeppel, fire-fighting team Remshagen
Health service
Heart Jesus's hospital Lindlar (151 beds with anesthesiaAnesthesia
Anesthesia, or anaesthesia , traditionally meant the condition of having sensation blocked or temporarily taken away...
, geriatrics
Geriatrics
Geriatrics is a sub-specialty of internal medicine and family medicine that focuses on health care of elderly people. It aims to promote health by preventing and treating diseases and disabilities in older adults. There is no set age at which patients may be under the care of a geriatrician, or...
, internal medicine
Internal medicine
Internal medicine is the medical specialty dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of adult diseases. Physicians specializing in internal medicine are called internists. They are especially skilled in the management of patients who have undifferentiated or multi-system disease processes...
, ENT
Otolaryngology
Otolaryngology or ENT is the branch of medicine and surgery that specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of ear, nose, throat, and head and neck disorders....
, urology
Urology
Urology is the medical and surgical specialty that focuses on the urinary tracts of males and females, and on the reproductive system of males. Medical professionals specializing in the field of urology are called urologists and are trained to diagnose, treat, and manage patients with urological...
with connected doctor's house. Since 1999 cooperation with the Saint Josef hospital in Engelskirchen form of the Catholic
Catholic
The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
Kliniken Oberberg GmbH.
Spare time and sport
Lindlar has, as one of few municipalitiesMunicipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
, its own leisure park. It was established between 1980 and 1982. There are a swimming pool
Swimming pool
A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or simply a pool, is a container filled with water intended for swimming or water-based recreation. There are many standard sizes; the largest is the Olympic-size swimming pool...
(Parkbad Lindlar), a crazy golf layout, a concert
Concert
A concert is a live performance before an audience. The performance may be by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band...
space, an adventure game space, boot rental company as well as several investments is found for sport. The leisure
Leisure
Leisure, or free time, is time spent away from business, work, and domestic chores. It is also the periods of time before or after necessary activities such as eating, sleeping and, where it is compulsory, education....
park directly borders on the castle park of the Castle Heiligenhoven and on the Lindlarer cultural centre.
The municipality has more than seven sports fields, a stadium with field as well as one with Aschenplatz, seven gym
Gym
The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, that mean a locality for both physical and intellectual education of young men...
nasiums, under it two big triple run halls and a gymnastics hall and two tennis court
Tennis court
A tennis court is where the game of tennis is played. It is a firm rectangular surface with a low net stretched across the center. The same surface can be used to play both doubles and singles.-Dimensions:...
s. Also, there is an indoor swimming pool, including sauna, fitness and sunbathing area and sports field, a sail
Sail
A sail is any type of surface intended to move a vessel, vehicle or rotor by being placed in a wind—in essence a propulsion wing. Sails are used in sailing.-History of sails:...
airfield, riding spaces, a golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
layout, a shooting gallery and skittle-alleys.
In Lindlar there are a lot of footpaths
Sidewalk
A sidewalk, or pavement, footpath, footway, and sometimes platform, is a path along the side of a road. A sidewalk may accommodate moderate changes in grade and is normally separated from the vehicular section by a curb...
and the streets have separate cycle lanes. Cyclists use, mainly, the forestry and countryside tracks.
Lindlar and its villages have a large number of associations which are well established. Most important are the protection associations, sports associations and native country associations
Voluntary association
A voluntary association or union is a group of individuals who enter into an agreement as volunteers to form a body to accomplish a purpose.Strictly speaking, in many jurisdictions no formalities are necessary to start an association...
.
Economy, industry and infrastructure
From the 16th to the 19th century the ironIron
Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. It is a metal in the first transition series. It is the most common element forming the planet Earth as a whole, forming much of Earth's outer and inner core. It is the fourth most common element in the Earth's crust...
industry was in the environment of Lindlar, and stood economically in high blossom. Numerous iron hammer and furnaces were run there whose remaining stocks are to be found today partially still. by the way, the agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...
and the down-to-earth craft
Craft
A craft is a branch of a profession that requires some particular kind of skilled work. In historical sense, particularly as pertinent to the Medieval history and earlier, the term is usually applied towards people occupied in small-scale production of goods.-Development from the past until...
, for instance, the stone industry (reduction and processing of the greywacke), paper processing, home industry and file cutting was maintained. In addition, in the beginning of the 1980s a settlement of company took place in the new industrial zone of Klause.
Lindlarer greywacke
For more than 400 years it is diminished in Lindlar greywackeGreywacke
Greywacke or Graywacke is a variety of sandstone generally characterized by its hardness, dark color, and poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments or lithic fragments set in a compact, clay-fine matrix. It is a texturally immature sedimentary rock generally found...
. If this industry fork still hundred years ago was a main employer of the Lindlarer population, today only three producing companies exist. In many places former stone quarries which are today an important living space for all sorts of animal species are found. The Lindlarer greywacke was used on site to the construction
Construction
In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of human multitasking...
, examples for this are the steeple of the Catholic
Catholic
The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
parish church Saint Severin. Also it was sold in the other environment, for instance, to Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
. In this connection the Lindlarer railroad which transported the rock
Rock (geology)
In geology, rock or stone is a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids.The Earth's outer solid layer, the lithosphere, is made of rock. In general rocks are of three types, namely, igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic...
till the 1960s by railway is worth mentioning. For this target led from the main reduction area - a brake road.
Highway
Lindlar about the federal motorway A4 (CologneCologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
Olpe
Olpe, Germany
Olpe is situated in the foothills of the Ebbegebirge in North Rhine-Westphalia, roughly 60 km east of Cologne and 20 km northwest of Siegen. It is part of the Regierungsbezirk of Arnsberg and is the seat of the district of Olpe.- Location :...
) is linked up to the highway net. At the best to use the motorway at exit Engelskirchen
Engelskirchen
Engelskirchen is a municipality in Oberbergischer Kreis, Germany in North Rhine-Westphalia, about 40 kilometers east of Cologne. The neighbouring municipalities are Overath, Lindlar, Gummersbach, Wiehl and Much.-History:...
((in 7 kilometers of distance) or Overath-Untereschbach (15 kilometers).
Railroad
The next railway station is in Engelskirchen, Lindlar itself has no more road binding. On the railroad line Lindlar - Linde - Hoffnungsthal - Cologne a personal train went in October, 1960 for the last time. Then the setting of the commercial transport followed on 23 May 1966. In 2005 the rails were dismantled as much as possible.Bus connections and railroad connections
Lindlar lies very traffic-favorable with the A4 (exitExit
Exit may refer to:* Door* Portal , an opening in the walls of a structure* Emergency exit* Overwing exit, a type of emergency exit on an airplane* Exit ramp, a feature of a road interchange-Computing:...
Untereschbach or Engelskirchen). Also the ÖPNV is developed according to line very well.
Nevertheless, in the evening hours no bus
Bus
A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are...
es operate.
German
- Wilhelm Breidenbach: Beiträge zur Heimatgeschichte der Gemeinde Lindlar, hg. v. Josef Gronewald, Lindlar 1977
- Richard Fabritius: Lindlar - eine Gemeinde im "Dritten Reich" 1933-1945, Zeitgeschichtliche Dokumentation, Band 2, Lindlar 1995
- Josef Külheim: Lindlar, WuppertalWuppertalWuppertal is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in and around the Wupper river valley, and is situated east of the city of Düsseldorf and south of the Ruhr area. With a population of approximately 350,000, it is the largest city in the Bergisches Land...
1955* Gerd Müller: Lindlar - eine Bergische Gemeinde erzählt..., Lindlar 1976 - Geschichte macht Schule. Lindlarer (Schul-) Geschichte vom 19. Jahrhundert bis heute, Lindlar 1990