Germany · Nordrhein-Westfalen · Remscheid
Lennep, Remscheid — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Lennep is a town-sized district of Remscheid, holding the German Röntgen Museum, the Tuchmuseum Lennep and the Evangelische Stadtkirche Lennep.
About Lennep
Where to stay in Lennep
The right area depends on your trip — here's what each neighbourhood is best for.
Lennep is the part of Remscheid where the German Röntgen Museum, the Tuchmuseum Lennep and the Evangelische Stadtkirche Lennep stand close enough to make one day's walking. Few beds sit in Lennep itself. Remscheid holds more of them, and the ride back out to Lennep is short.
Museum visitors gain most from the district itself, since two of the collections stand within its own streets.
About Lennep
What are the main landmarks in Lennep?
Six entries make the Lennep list: the German Röntgen Museum, the Tuchmuseum Lennep, the Minoritenkloster Lennep and the Klosterkirche Lennep, the Evangelische Stadtkirche Lennep, and Saint Bonaventura. Two museums, four church buildings. The Tuchmuseum Lennep names the cloth trade that these streets once worked.
What is the history of Lennep?
Lennep reads as a town that ended up inside Remscheid: the Evangelische Stadtkirche Lennep and the Minoritenkloster Lennep are the kind of buildings a district alone does not accumulate. The record stays sparse. No founding year comes with the place, so its monastery church and its cloth museum carry the dating instead.
The German Röntgen Museum joins that line.
Where is Lennep?
Lennep runs wide. Something near twenty-seven square kilometres of Remscheid belong to it, which is a large share of the city for one district to hold.
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Updated September 2026