Rheindahlen

Rheindahlen
Stadtteil of Mönchengladbach
Coat of arms
Location of Rheindahlen within Mönchengladbach
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Coordinates: 51°09′01″N 06°21′42″E / 51.15028°N 6.36167°E / 51.15028; 6.36167
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
City	Mönchengladbach
Area
• Total	3.237 km2 (1.250 sq mi)
Highest elevation	80 m (260 ft)
Lowest elevation	65 m (213 ft)
Population  (2008-12-31)
• Total	27,363
• Density	8,500/km2 (22,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	41179
Dialling codes	02161

Rheindahlen (called Dalen from the Early Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period around 1700, and Dahlen until 1878) is a town in the western and largest borough of the city of Mönchengladbach in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Since the reorganisation of Monchengladbach's boroughs (Stadtbezirke) on 22 October 2009 Rheindahlen has been part of Mönchengladbach West. From the granting of Nideggen town rights in 1354 until the incorporation of the mayoralty of Rheindahlen into M.-Gladbach on 30 June 1921, the place was an independent town.

In 1878, the town was renamed from Dahlen to Rheindahlen in the Prussian Province of Düsseldorf by order of Emperor William I.^[1] Its renaming was primarily for postal reasons in order to avoid confusing the Dahlen in the Rhine Province with the municipality of Dahlen in Saxony within the North German Postal Zone. Its old name linguistically meant Delle or "hollow", which refers to the location of the village in a depression.