The arms show in the upper part the lion of the Counts of Berg and in the lower the balance as a symbol of justice.

Until the Middle Ages the area was covered with virgin forests; it can therefore be assumed that only few people, such as hunters, settled there.

The eldest available records mentioning Lindlar -then known as Lintlo- date back to the year 1109.

In 1906 this was allowed by the government and the railway Cologne – Bergisch Gladbach – Immekeppel – Lindlar was opened in 1912.

The municipality library Lindlar houses a great choice of books and is helped financially by a conveyor association, so that the lending is free so far.

The historical local cores of Lindlar, Hohkeppel and Linde are worth seeing.

In addition, one sees with the walking on the extensive footpath net often one of the road crosses and also many smaller chapels.

Heart Jesus's hospital Lindlar (151 beds with anesthesia, geriatrics, internal medicine, ENT, urology with connected doctor's house.

Since 1999 cooperation with the Saint Josef hospital in Engelskirchen form of the Catholic Kliniken Oberberg GmbH.

Also, there is an indoor swimming pool, including sauna, fitness and sunbathing area and sports field, a sail airfield, riding spaces, a golf layout, a shooting gallery and skittle-alleys.

From the 16th to the 19th century the iron industry was in the environment of Lindlar, and stood economically in high blossom.

Numerous iron hammer and furnaces were run there whose remaining stocks are to be found today partially still.

If this industry fork still hundred years ago was a main employer of the Lindlarer population, today only three producing companies exist.

In many places former stone quarries which are today an important living space for all sorts of animal species are found.

The Lindlarer greywacke was used on site to the construction, examples for this are the steeple of the Catholic parish church Saint Severin.

In this connection the Lindlarer railroad which transported the rock till the 1960s by railway is worth mentioning.

Lindlar about the federal motorway A4 (Cologne Olpe) is linked up to the highway net.

On the railroad line Lindlar - Linde - Hoffnungsthal - Cologne a private train was operated until October 1960.