Elberfeld is a municipal subdivision of the German city of Wuppertal ; it was an independent town until 1929.
6-531: The first official mentioning of the geographic area on the banks of today's Wupper River as " elverfelde " was in a document of 1161. Etymologically, elver is derived from the old Low German word for "river." (See etymology of the name of the German Elbe River; cf. North Germanic älv .) Therefore, the original meaning of "elverfelde" can be understood as "field on the river." Elverfelde received its town charter in 1610. In 1726, Elias Eller and
12-589: A pastor, Daniel Schleyermacher, founded a Philadelphian Society . They later moved to Ronsdorf in the Duchy of Berg , becoming the Zionites , a fringe sect. In 1826 Friedrich Harkort , a famous German industrialist and politician, had a type of suspension railway built as a trial and ran it on the grounds of what is today the tax office at Elberfeld. In fact the railway, the Schwebebahn Wuppertal ,
18-481: Is located on a hill overlooking the river. From the 15th century, the Wupper and its numerous streams gave birth to hundreds of workshops, mills and factories on their banks. Originally water was used for dyeing , bleaching and washing canvas and cloth; later it was used to power machines or transport waste. The Wupper thus facilitated the early industrial expansion of Wuppertal (German for "Wupper Valley") during
24-586: Is the largest municipal subdivision of Wuppertal. 51°16′N 7°08′E / 51.267°N 7.133°E / 51.267; 7.133 Wupper The Wupper is a right tributary of the Rhine in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany . Rising near Marienheide in western Sauerland it runs through the mountainous region of the Bergisches Land in Berg County and enters
30-661: The Rhine at Leverkusen , south of Düsseldorf . Its upper course is called the Wipper. Both names are related to "weave", and refer to the twisting course. On its course of about 116 kilometers (72 mi), the Wupper passes through the city of Wuppertal where the suspension railway runs for 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) above the river. It is crossed by the highest railway bridge in Germany near Müngsten, between Remscheid and Solingen . A few kilometers further down, Burg Castle
36-480: Was eventually built between Oberbarmen and Vohwinkel and runs through Elberfeld. In 1888 the district of Sonnborn was incorporated into Elberfeld. In 1929 the towns of Barmen , Elberfeld, Vohwinkel, Cronenberg and Ronsdorf became a municipal entity officially called "Barmen-Elberfeld;" in the same year, the unified city administration through a vote of its council members decided to rename the newly incorporated city "Wuppertal." This took place in 1930. Today Elberfeld
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