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Remscheid was founded in the 12th century, but remained a small village until the 19th century. Early spellings for the city included Remissgeid (1217), Rymscheyd (1351), Reymscheyd (1487) and Rembscheid (1639).
- 365 m (1,198 ft)
- Urban district
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Remscheid was first mentioned in the 11th cent. and chartered in 1808. Its masonry dam (completed 1891) is the oldest in Germany. The city was badly damaged (1943) during World War II. The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Remscheid (rĕm´shīt), city (1994 pop. 123,610), North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany, on the Wupper River.
History. Remscheid was founded in the 12th century, but remained a small village until the 19th century. Early spellings for the city included Remissgeid (1217), Rymscheyd (1351), Reymscheyd (1487) and Rembscheid (1639). The economic growth of the entire Rhine-Ruhr region led to an increase of the population of Remscheid.
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.
An awareness of hierarchical distinctions not only conditioned relations between the classes, it also reinforced fine gradations within them, as can be seen in this report by an in-law of the Mannesmanns, an important industrial family in Remscheid.
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.
