Bergisches Land
The Bergisches Land (Kintra o Berg or Land o Berg) is a law muntain range region athin the state o Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, east o Rhine river, sooth o the Ruhr. The landscape is shapit bi firths, meadaes, rivers an creeks an contains ower 20 airtificial lakes.[1] Wuppertal is the biggest ceety an seen as the region's caipital, whereas the soothren pairt nouaday haes closer economic an socio-cultural ties tae Cologne.
History
[eedit | eedit soorce]Bergisches Land uised tae be territory o the Coonty o Berg, which later became the Duchy o Berg, who gave the region its name.[2] The Duchy wis dissolvit in 1815 an in 1822 the region became pairt o the Proushie Rhine Province.
Amangst the population the day, a sense o belangin tae the region Bergisches Land is notable in the hilly northren pairt, but no hintle onymair in the auries near the Cologne Bicht, the Ruhr aurie or the ceety o Düsseldorf.
Economic upswing
[eedit | eedit soorce]The region became famous durin the period o its early industralisation in the 19t century. At that time Wupper Valley wis a historical Silicon Valley an its twin ceeties Barmen an Elberfeld the tradin- an industrial caipitals o Proushie. This economic upswing caused the expansion o the Ruhrgebiet an the foondation o socialism: Friedrich Engels wis born in Barmen tae a textile mill awner.[3]
Efter the industrial dounturn frae the 1960s on, the region lost importance but cooperations bi Bergisches Land entrepreneurs an politeecians are recently bringin back some regional awareness an economic pouer.[4]
Ceeties an destricts
[eedit | eedit soorce]Ceety/destrict | affiliation | Pairt o the dukedom Berg (1789) | Pairt o the Bergisches Land in local awareness | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Bad Honnef | Rhein-Sieg-Kreis | X | ||
Bergisch Gladbach | Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis | X | X | |
Bergneustadt | Oberbergischer Kreis | X | X | |
Burscheid | Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis | X | X | |
Düsseldorf | nae affiliation | X | ||
Eitorf | Rhein-Sieg-Kreis | X | X | |
Engelskirchen | Oberbergischer Kreis | X | X | |
Erkrath | Kreis Mettmann | X | X | |
Gummersbach | Oberbergischer Kreis | X | ||
Haan | Kreis Mettmann | X | X | |
Heiligenhaus | Kreis Mettmann | X | X | |
Hennef | Rhein-Sieg-Kreis | X | X | |
Hilden | Kreis Mettmann | X | X | |
Hückeswagen | Oberbergischer Kreis | X | X | |
Kürten | Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis | X | X | |
Langenfeld | Kreis Mettmann | X | X | |
Leichlingen | Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis | X | X | |
Leverkusen | no affiliation | X | X | |
Lindlar | Oberbergischer Kreis | X | X | |
Lohmar | Rhein-Sieg-Kreis | X | X | |
Marienheide | Oberbergischer Kreis | X | ||
Mettmann | Kreis Mettmann | X | X | |
Monheim | Kreis Mettmann | X | X | |
Morsbach | Oberbergischer Kreis | X | X | |
Much | Rhein-Sieg-Kreis | X | X | |
Mülheim | nae affiliation | X | ||
Neunkirchen-Seelscheid | Rhein-Sieg-Kreis | X | X | |
Niederkassel | Rhein-Sieg-Kreis | X | ||
Nümbrecht | Oberbergischer Kreis | X | ||
Odenthal | Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis | X | X | |
Overath | Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis | X | X | |
Ratingen | Kreis Mettmann | X | X | |
Radevormwald | Oberbergischer Kreis | X | X | |
Reichshof | Oberbergischer Kreis | X | X | |
Remscheid | nae affiliation | X | X | |
Rösrath | Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis | X | X | |
Ruppichteroth | Rhein-Sieg-Kreis | X | X | |
Sankt Augustin | Rhein-Sieg-Kreis | X | ||
Siegburg | Rhein-Sieg-Kreis | X | ||
Solingen | nae affiliation | X | X | |
Troisdorf | Rhein-Sieg-Kreis | X | ||
Velbert | Kreis Mettmann | X | X | |
Waldbröl | Oberbergischer Kreis | X | X | |
Wermelskirchen | Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis | X | X | |
Wiehl | Oberbergischer Kreis | X | ||
Windeck | Rhein-Sieg-Kreis | X | X | |
Wipperfürth | Oberbergischer Kreis | X | X | |
Wülfrath | Kreis Mettmann | X | X | |
Wuppertal | nae affiliation | X | X |
See an aw
[eedit | eedit soorce]Wikimedia Commons haes media relatit tae Bergisches Land. |
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "North Rhine-Westfalia experience, Bergisches Land". tourismus NRW. Archived frae the original on 23 November 2006. Retrieved 20 November 2001.
- ↑ Claudia Tenten. "Die Grafen von Berg". Archived frae the original on 1 December 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2001.
- ↑ Prof. Dr. Klaus Tenfelde. ""Das Ruhrgebiet! Von der Steinzeit bis zur Kulturhauptsatdt 2010" part 2". Archived frae the original on 13 November 2009. Retrieved 20 November 2001.
- ↑ "Cooperation "Bergian City Triangle"". Kompetenz Hoch3. Archived frae the original on 8 December 2002. Retrieved 20 November 2001.
Freemit airtins
[eedit | eedit soorce]- www.bergisches-land.de bi Bergisches Land Tourismus Marketing e.V (in German) (in Dutch)