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By 1. April 1967 the municipalities
Homberg-Bracht-Bellscheidt and Meiersberg voluntarily merged to become Gemeinde Homberg-Meiersberg. It consisted of the village of Homberg as well as Hofermühle and Oberheide plus some solitary farms; it belonged to the jurisdiction of local court or "Amtsgericht"
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Homberg is the starting point of biking or hiking tours in the
Angertal (valley of the Anger river), which is reached via a scenic country road from the north end of the village. The valley itself is about 12 miles (19 km) from Ratingen to Wuelfrath, without a road for motor traffic but with a
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By 1968, the municipalities of Amt
Hubbelrath (Hasselbeck-Schwarzbach, Homberg-Meiersberg, Hubbelrath, Metzkausen) planned to merge in 1968 to be one single municipality named Hubbelrath. The great official North Rhine-Westphalia restructuring of that year stopped these plans.
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industry sites are connected to highways mainly along L422 through
Homberg, the heavy duty transport crossing the little village has been the focus of public debates and politicians' promises. Despite noise and accidents, no substantial improvements have been achieved.
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hiking path, the river and a remote railway line. A full tour would start at
Ratingen and follow the Anger river upstream to Wuelfrath-Rohdenhaus via Flandersbacherstrasse K34, uphill through Wuelfrath and then return via road L422 back to Homberg.
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In 1968 the school in
Meiersberg closed, so did the confessional schools in Homberg and a common school was founded, using the common building of the former confessional schools within the settlement at Alt-Homberg.
124:(Meiersberger Straße), to occupy parts of the former Meiersberg area. Today, Homberg's only school ("Christian-Morgenstern-Schule") is in that southern area, as the former school was closed in the meantime.
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As part of an ongoing restructuring of municipalities, Homberg-Bracht-Bellscheid became part of the new district "Amt
Hubbelrath" in the county (land) Düsseldorf-Mettmann on 29 July 1929.
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Homberg-Meiersberg as a municipality only lasted for a short time and was split according to the restructuring law of 10 September 1974 effective 1 January 1975. Counties of the area of
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Homberg consists of an older (northern) part with about 1000 inhabitants, three taverns and two churches and a new residential area for about 5000 residents and one restaurant.
163:(together with the municipalities of Breitscheid, Eggerscheidt, Hösel und Lintorf) to be the new city of Ratingen in Mettmann County. Hofermühle was to be part of the city of
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Weidenhaupt, Hugo; Münster-Schröer, Erika; Die
Geschichte der Pfarre St. Jacobus der Ältere in Ratingen-Homberg; Düsseldorf 1997; S. 36
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that, until the bringing of industrialisation to the city, was the independent village of
Homberg - at that time being in the district
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In the 1970s Homberg was extended with residential areas south of the country road L2422 from
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Mundt, Eckart, Hackstein, Marlies; Das Amt Hubbelrath - Eine historische Studie; Opladen 1974
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325:Coordinates 51° 17' 45" North and 6° 55' 15" East
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267:References
246:Since the
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85:See also:
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157:Wuppertal
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