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Remscheid comprises four boroughs, Alt-Remscheid, Remscheid-Süd, Lennep, and Lüttringhausen. Its highest point is the Brodtberg (378 m). History. Remscheid was founded in the 12th century, but remained a small village until the 19th century.
Remscheid, city, North Rhine–Westphalia Land (state), northwestern Germany. It lies along the Wupper River, south of Wuppertal, in the heart of the Bergisches Land, a hilly, wooded district in the lower Rhine River valley. Mentioned in the late 11th century as an estate given to the Hospitallers by.
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Remscheid (rĕm´shīt), city (1994 pop. 123,610), North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany, on the Wupper River. It is a leading center of the German tool and hardware industry; it has manufactures in iron. Remscheid was first mentioned in the 11th cent. and chartered in 1808. Its masonry dam (completed 1891) is the oldest in Germany.
Inside you can see almost everything to do with the history of tool making in Germany and central Europe from a stone-age hand axe to computer-controlled machines. The star exhibits are the world’s first production furnace for electric steel (1906) and the pilot plant built in 1891 by the Remscheid Mannesmann company to produce seamless pipes.
City close to nature. Remscheid is a green city – almost two-thirds of it is covered by green spaces and forest areas. Enjoy the natural Bergisch surroundings on a walk around the Eschbach reservoir, Germany’s oldest drinking water reservoir, that takes around an hour.
Exclusivity and the Entrepreneurial Class in Remscheid (1880s), published in: German History in Documents and Images, <https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/forging-an-empire-bismarckian-germany-1866-1890/ghdi:document-488> [March 13, 2024].
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