9 Sights in Ratingen, Germany (with Map and Images)

Landsberg Castle is a castle complex in the Ruhr Valley in the city of Ratingen, on the outskirts of Essen, in the immediate vicinity of Hugenpoet Castle. It is located near the Kettwig district of Vor der Brücke about one kilometre southwest of the centre of Kettwig on the road to Mülheim an der Ruhr-Mintard in the middle of an English landscape park with extensive woodland.

Wikipedia: Schloss Landsberg (Ratingen) (DE)

The Upper Silesian State Museum (Oslm) in Ratingen is dedicated to the history and culture of Upper Silesia. The museum is the company in 1970 founded Haus Upper Silesia, a foundation of private law. It is located directly opposite the old museum building "Haus Upper Silesia" in Ratingen-Hösel, in which the foundation is currently based. The museum work is funded by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia based on § 96 BVFG. The basics are both the sponsorship of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for the Upper Silesians from 1964 living in Germany and the partnership with the Polish Voivodeship of Silesia since 2000. The main focus of the museum is the cultural history of Upper Silesia and the neighboring areas, the mining and heavy industrial history of the Upper Silesian industrial site and the history of the 20th century. Nowadays, the collection, preservation, research and mediation of the Upper Silesian cultural heritage are in the foreground in the sense of the European dialogue.

Wikipedia: Oberschlesisches Landesmuseum (DE)

St. Peter and Paul is a Roman Catholic parish church in Ratingen, Germany. Along with the nave of the Essen Cathedral, the Ratingen sacred building is one of the earliest hall churches in the Rhineland.

Wikipedia: St. Peter und Paul (Ratingen) (DE), Website

Gräfgenstein Castle is a partially preserved medieval hilltop castle complex at 100 m above sea level and an architectural monument on the Angerbach in Ratingen. The castle is privately inhabited, used as a farm and can only be visited from the outside.

Wikipedia: Burg Gräfgenstein (DE)

The Catholic parish church of St. Anna in Ratingen-Lintorf is a three-nave, neo-Romanesque columned basilica. It is the main church of the parish of St. Anna, founded in 2009, to which other branch churches belong. The parish belongs to the deanery of Ratingen in the district deanery of Mettmann in the Archdiocese of Cologne. The current church dates from 1878 and has been a listed building since 1985. However, the construction history of its predecessor building dates back to the 11th century.

Wikipedia: St. Anna (Ratingen-Lintorf) (DE)

The Evangelical Market Church is a listed church building in Kettwig, a district of Essen. The name Church on the market has prevailed because it enables precise geographical classification in Kettwig and at the same time excludes confusion with the market church in Essen-Stadtmitte.

Wikipedia: Marktkirche Kettwig (DE), Website, Heritage Website

The Evangelical Town Church in Ratingen is the oldest Reformed church building in the former Duchy of Berg. The baroque church was built between 1668 and 1687 and was supplemented by the west tower in 1856.

Wikipedia: Evangelische Stadtkirche Ratingen (DE), Website

The Textilfabrik Cromford in Ratingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany was built in 1783 by Johann Gottfried Brügelmann. It was the first cotton spinning mill on the European mainland. Today it is an industrial museum specialising in textile history.

Wikipedia: Textilfabrik Cromford (EN)

Geusenengel or Geusen-Daniel are the name given to the trombone angels in the diaspora of the former Duchy of Jülich on the Lower Rhine. Trombone angels on the roof turrets and towers of Protestant houses of worship in this area serve as weather vanes. The often hidden small churches also served as places of worship for the Geuze who fled from the Netherlands and joined the Protestants working in secret. Their name was then transferred to the Jülich Protestants. The Geusendaniel was probably a fad at the time when these churches were first allowed to attach a bell turret or church tower on or to their churches and houses of prayer. Especially after the Second World War, the Geuse angel became the symbol of the Protestant Christians in the Lower Rhine region. Examples can be found in Goch, in Geldern (Heilig-Geist-Kirche) or in the Marktkirche Kettwig.

Wikipedia: Geusenengel (DE)