Ratingen ( Limburgish : Rotinge ) is a town in the district of Mettmann in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany . It lies in the northwestern part of Berg about 12 km northeast of Düsseldorf .
7-669: Ratinger Lowen was an ice hockey team in Ratingen , Germany founded in 1979. They played in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga from 1994-1997. Ratinger played in the Regionalliga for the 1984-85 season, which they promptly won, and were promoted to the Oberliga . They won the Oberliga two years later, and were promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga . Ratinger was promoted to the 1.Bundesliga after
14-489: A second-place finish in the 2.Bundesliga. When the 1.Bundesliga became the Deutsche Eishockey Liga in 1994, Ratinger continued playing there until they folded in 1997. A successor club, Revierlöwen Oberhausen , was founded in 1997 and operated until 2007. Ratingen With a communal reform of 1975 the independent municipalities of Breitscheid , Eggerscheidt , Hösel , Lintorf (seat Angerland) as well as
21-557: Is Klaus Konrad Pesch of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since 2014. The most recent mayoral election was held on 13 September 2020, with a runoff held on 27 September, and the results were as follows: The Ratingen city council governs the city alongside the Mayor. The most recent city council election was held on 13 September 2020, and the results were as follows: Several important international enterprises (particularly from
28-461: 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 of growth and development (West Ratingen with 20,000 inhabitants, developed in the late 1960s-1980s). In 1970, before further incorporations the number of inhabitants surpassed 50,000. The current mayor of Ratingen
35-643: The IT industry) as Vodafone , ASUS , Hewlett-Packard , SAP , CEMEX and Esprit maintain branches and/or main centres in Ratingen. It is also the hometown of automotive dealer Gottfried Schultz . On 1 June 2021 Trading Hub Europe, the market area manager for the German natural gas market, was founded in Ratingen. Since 1997 the town has hosted the Mehrkampf-Meeting , an annual decathlon and pentathlon meeting. Ratingen
42-759: The Middle Ages, but slowed 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
49-453: The local part of Homberg and the municipality of Homberg-Meiersberg (seat Hubbelrath) were added to the city of Ratingen. Ratingen was settled before 849. From 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
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