Mettmann is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany, east of Düsseldorf and west of Wuppertal. It is the capital of the Mettmann district.

Understand

The district contains the Neandertal, a river valley which has named the Neanderthal Man, a species of human that went extinct around 40,000 years ago.

See

• 1 Neanderthal Museum. A museum dedicated to the Neanderthal Man, Homo Neanderthalensis, which populated much of Europe and the Middle East until it was displaced by Homo Sapiens, and went extinct around 40,000 BC. See paleontology and Prehistoric Europe for perspective. 

Sleep

• Grand City Hotel, Ortsteil Metzhausen. 
• Hotel Luisenhof, Florastr. 82, Ortsteil Metzkausen, ☏ +49 2104 95920. 
• Hotel Alberga, Schwarzbachstraße 22, ☏ +49 2104 92720. 
• Hotel Alte Fabrik, Bergstraße 16, ☏ +49 2104 91950. 
• Hotel Gut Höhne, Düsseldorfer Straße 253, ☏ +49 2104 7780. 
• Hotel Am Röttgen, Elberfelder Str. 180, ☏ +49 2104 92070. 

Go next

• Düsseldorf
• Solingen
• Wuppertal