Travelog post for: Freya

Hi Mummy,
today we visited the historical district Lennep. My host's daugther is living there. Lennep is the second largest district of Remscheid with about 25.000 inhabitants. Lennep once was one of the most important cities of the region Bergisches Land.

Lennep has an historical city core based on a medieval structure. There were several large city fires, the last one in the year 1746 which destroyed most of the city. It was rebuilt afterwards. Lennep received its town charter between the years 1259 and 1276- In 1929 Lennep was annexated to Remscheid.

We started our trip at the remains of the city wall, parts of it remained after the last city fire.



Katja showed us picturesque and narrow lanes with those lovely timber-framed houses.





Here you can see an historical door knocker showing a lion, the heraldic animal of Remscheid.





Klosterkirche (minster) is the oldest sacral building in Remscheid, built in the years 1677 until 1696. It is now a cultural centre, a restaurant is also situated in the building.



Wow! Blue hydrangea!



Do you know Lennep's most famous former citizen? It was Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen who produced and detected x-rays. He was born in Lennep in 1845. Here is the Roentgen Museum.



Katja took us further to show us his birth house.



He was born in this house.





We saw the loveliest houses everywhere.





This is the market place, close to one of the churches.





Later we visited my host's parents, they are living on the seventh floor - what a gorgeous overview!



That's all for today
Bye
Freya