Mettmann town history

image author: Nils Siebert

904
First mentioning of Mettmann in a deed of donation by the royal court of King Louis IV of the Carolingians to the monastery Kaiserswerth.

12th-century
Building of the Catholic church

1363
Mettmann becomes an offical seat, which had more or less the same significance as district administration today. At the same time Mettmenn gets a Regional Court.

10. August 1424
Elevation to freedom through Adolf VII duke of Jülich-Berg. This elevation is connected with the awarding of city-like rights like tax privileges, exemption of duty and the electing of a mayor but also the obligation to self-defence.

image author: Nils Siebert

1546
Forming of the first reformed church community.

1775-1806
1775 was the topping-out ceremony of the present Protestant church, which was finished with a simple tower hood five years later. In 1792 the tower hood receives its present pear-shape and 14 years later a wrought-iron gate was built in.

1807
Closure of the old churchyard around the Catholic church. Building of a new graveyard at the Friedhofsweg.

image author: Ahlemann

1815
Mettmann becomes rural district in the Prussian Rhine province.

1856
Discovery of the Neanderthals by Professor Fulrott.

1881
Enlargement and renewal of the Catholic church.

1954
Final relocation of the district seat to Mettmann.

1975
Communal restructuring: Affiliation of Metzkausen and loss of territory in the north of the city area to Velbert and Wülfrath.



(Verkehrsverein Mettmann und Neandertal e.V.)