page_title: Rheindahlen
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Rheindahlen / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Kupferstich, herausgegeben von Isaac Commelin mit Ortsansicht und Plünderung Dalens durch hessische Truppen am 9. Mai 1644
context_page_description: Rheindahlen 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 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. 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.
caption: Fanciful portrayal of the town at the time of the Hessian plundering on 9 May 1644. The clearly Dutch engraving is taken from the left hand side of the depiction by Frans Hogenberg. The copperplate engraver can have had no knowledge of the town, as can be seen from the incorrect number of towers and the town wall with arrow slits and battlement gables.
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