Odenkirchen

Odenkirchen is a former town in Germany, presently part of the city Mönchengladbach.

It is situated on the river Niers, 21 miles by rail south-west of Düsseldorf.

It has a railway station (Rheydt-Odenkirchen), on the line from Mönchengladbach to Grevenbroich and Cologne.

From 1794 to 1814, Odenkirchen was part of the French Roer département, from 1815 to 1918 part of the Kingdom of Prussia (Province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Rhine Province).

Odenkirchen remained a separate district within Mönchengladbach until 2009, when it was merged into the larger Mönchengladbach Süd city district.