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Grimlinghausen, Neuss — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Grimlinghausen is a Stadtteil of Neuss at the mouth of the Erft on the Rhine, known in dialect as Hippelank for the goats once kept there.
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Where to stay in Grimlinghausen
How the choice of base plays out on the ground.
Neuss holds the rooms. Grimlinghausen is a village quarter between two motorways and the river, so a stay here means quiet ground with the city a short ride north. The Cyriakusplatz is the centre.
A bronze goat has stood on it since 2017, the animal that gives the place its nickname and supports its coat of arms. Two motorways and the Bundesstraße 9 pass the edges.
About Grimlinghausen
What are the main landmarks in Grimlinghausen?
The coat of arms tells the whole story. It shows the Erft flowing into the Rhine and the Roman bridge that no longer exists, an anchor for the river and the fishing that mattered here, and two red flowers for the pansies that were grown. Two white goats hold it up.
That echoes the arms of Neuss, which are flanked by two golden lions, and the goats stand for the herds that gave Grimlinghausen its dialect name. Roman ground lies next door. The legionary camp of Novaesium was built at Gnadental to watch the far bank, and a watchtower stood on the Reckberg between Grimlinghausen and Uedesheim on the frontier of the empire.
What is the history of Grimlinghausen?
Quinheim is the older name here. The settlement appears in writing in 1173 with a church dedicated to Saint Cyriacus, and its people already held fishing rights on the Erft and the Rhine in that year. Grymmelkusen grew up beside it.
When the Rhine shifted its bed, Quinheim and its church disappeared and Grimlinghausen took over what it had done. War came in 1475. The troops of Charles the Bold, besieging Neuss, destroyed the village and the Cyriakus church, and plundering followed in the Truchsess War of 1585, when the Duke of Parma's men blew up the Roman bridge over the Erft a year later.
A hunting lodge was built in 1660. Philipp Wilhelm, Count Palatine, put it up, and from 1794 to 1814 the village belonged to the French Roer department, which set up the Mairie Grimlinghausen in the canton of Neuss. Prussia turned that into a Bürgermeisterei.
It joined the new Kreis Neuss in 1816, and on 1 August 1929 Grimlinghausen and Uedesheim were both taken into the city of Neuss.
Where is Grimlinghausen?
Grimlinghausen lies in the south of Neuss with the Rhine along its northern edge, the A 46 to the east, the A 57 to the south and the Erft forming its western boundary before it joins the Rhine.
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Updated September 2026