Erkrath's a town in the district of Mettmann, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Geography Erkrath's situated on the Düssel river, directly east of Düsseldorf and west of Wuppertal, close to the famous Neandertal. In that part of Neanderthal, which's located in Erkrath, in the summer of 1856, quarry workers discovered the fossilised remains of what became known as the Neanderthal man or Homo Neanderthalensis in Feldhof cave. History Erkrath's known since 1148 and received the cit… (More on Erkrath)