Hi Mum,
today we went to Remscheid-Lennep. My host lived in Remscheid since late summer 2014, and she grew up in the district Lennep.
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.
Katja's parents are still living here; her father in his appartment, her Mum in a nursing home. First she showed us the school she attended.
Next we went to the historic old town. Most houses are framework houses or they are (partly) covered with slate, traditionally with green shutters and a green door.
This church once belonged to a convent, nowadays it is used as a place of cultural interest, there is also a well-known restaurant.
Isn't this a lovely view, all those picturesque houses?
Here you can see _Mishuta_ and me sitting on the remains of the original city wall. It was used until about 1790, than the population were growing too large for the small city core. The city had to be enlarged and parts of the city wall were pulled down.
We found this fountain showing the heraldic animal of Remscheid, the lion.
We strolled through the old town and its narrow lanes. Here we came closer to the market place, you can also find one of two churches here.
This is a cozy place, it seems to invite you to sit down and order coffee 
But it is a private house, so no coffee is offered
A famous person was born in Lennep. Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, who produced and detected what is nowadays known as x-rays in 1895, was born in 1845 in Lennep. His birth house is still existent, but it was under construction and respectively hidden under a scaffolding. But they have a museum here dedicated to Roentgen.
The museum has a large new annex with a large ...
... X in front of it.
The building on the right side was an indoor swimming pool once, it was re-built to a youth center in the late 1970 years. When Katja moved to Lennep with her family in 1971, it was still a swimming pool, later she liked the youth center 
We went to a nice park then.
As we had still enough time to spend until Katja could visit her Mum in the nursing home, she even took us to the outside of the city core. Here the houses were completely different, of course due to their later origin.
Soon we reached the end of the outskirt.
Behind those houses there just was green landscape waiting for us
Back to civilization.
Then it was time for Katja to meet her Mum and even later we met Katja's daughter who is living in Lennep with her boyfriend. That was a really exhausting day
Love
Anton Bär
