Ratingen-Lintorf

Lintorf
Quarter of Ratingen
Helpenstein mill, built before 1157
Coat of arms
Lintorf
Coordinates: 51°19′58″N 06°49′51″E / 51.33278°N 6.83083°E / 51.33278; 6.83083Coordinates: 51°19′58″N 06°49′51″E / 51.33278°N 6.83083°E / 51.33278; 6.83083
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region	Düsseldorf
District	Mettmann
Town	Ratingen
Founded	1052
Government
• Mayor of Ratingen	Klaus Konrad Pesch (shared candidate of CDU/FDP/The Greens/SPD)
• Governing parties	CDU / Bürger Union Ratingen / SPD
Area
• Quarter of Ratingen	16.85 km2 (6.51 sq mi)
Population (2014)
• Metro	15,162
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	40885
Dialling codes	02102
Vehicle registration	ME
Website	http://www.lintorf.de/

Lintorf is a village at the transition of the Berg region into the lower Rhine plain in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Since 1975 it has been a quarter of the city of Ratingen.

Lintorf was suburbanised in 1975. Ratingen belongs to the Mettmann district in the Düsseldorf region (North Rhine-Westphalia state). Before then, Lintorf was an independent municipality and seat of administration of Amt Angermund (since early 14th century; 1929-1950 "Amt Ratingen-Land"; 1950-1974 "Amt Angerland").

Lintorf is on the Cologne-Ratingen-Duisburg line, but since 1985 has had no train stations. The place is connected by autobahns A52 (Essen—Düsseldorf, exit Ratingen Tiefenbroich), A524 (autobahn interchange Breitscheid—Krefeld, exit Ratingen-Lintorf), A3 (Oberhausen—Cologne, exit A52). The old boundary lies in the northern edge of the approach lane of the Düsseldorf Airport (3 km runway).

Lintorf was the site of a displaced persons camp after World War II, providing a home for Ukrainians, Poles and Yugoslavs awaiting immigration. Ratingen has been the site of a war crime in April 1945. The bodies of eight German anti-Nazis, one woman and two Polish men were found lying in woods near the town.