Lüttringhausen is a district of the German

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...

 town of Remscheid

Remscheid

Remscheid is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is, after Wuppertal and Solingen, the third largest municipality in Bergisches Land, being located on the northern edge of the region, on south side of the Ruhr area....

 with a population of 17,857 in 2005; 11,829 in 1905; 13,560, mostly Evangelical

Lutheranism

Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the theology of Martin Luther, a German reformer. Luther's efforts to reform the theology and practice of the church launched the Protestant Reformation...

, in 1910.

Overview

It was founded around the year 1189. At this time, Lüttringhausen belonged to the County of Berg. In 1929, Lüttringhausen was incorporated into the town of Remscheid.

The prison of Remscheid is in Lüttringhausen, as well as the large Protestant psychiatric hospital Stiftung Tannenhof. The Autobahn 1

Autobahns of Germany

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 touches Lüttringhausen, which is connected to it at two points ("Ronsdorf-Lüttringhausen" and "Lüttringhausen-Lennep").

There are many notable churches in Lüttringhausen, the oldest of which is a Protestant church built in 1735. Its architecture is considered a masterpiece of the special kind of Baroque

Baroque architecture

Baroque architecture is a term used to describe the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late sixteenth century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and...

 style found in the "Bergisches Land

Bergisches Land

The Bergisches Land is a low mountain range region within the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, east of Rhine river, south of the Ruhr. The landscape is shaped by woods, meadows, rivers and creeks and contains over 20 artificial lakes...

". The town hall, built in 1907, is also well-known.

Adolf Clarenbach

Adolf Clarenbach

Adolf Clarenbach , burnt at the stake in Cologne, died as one of the first Protestant martyrs of the Reformation in the Lower Rhine region in Germany.- Life :...

, one of the first Protestant martyr

Martyr

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s of the Lower Rhine

Lower Rhine

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, was born in Lüttringhausen on the "Buscherhof" around the year 1497. He was burnt at the stake

Execution by burning

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 in Cologne

Cologne

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 on 28 September 1529 because of his work as a reformer

Protestant Reformers

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.

Every year on the first Sunday in Advent

Advent

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 the Christmas market

Christmas Market

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in Lüttringhausen is visited by many thousands of people.