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Coat of arms Map
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The coat of arms of Radevormwald
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Map of Germany. Position of Radevormwald
Basicdat:
State: North Rhine-Westphalia
Adm. Region: Cologne
Kreis (district): Oberbergischer Kreis
Area: 53,77 km2
Population: 25.390 (December 31, 2004)
Population density: 239 per km2
Altitude: 421 m above sea level
Postal code: 42477
Telephone prefix: 0049 2195 und 2191
Coordinates : 51°12′N 7°21′E / 51.200°N 7.350°E / 51.200; 7.350
Car identification: GM
Address of the municipality: Hohenfuhrstr. 13
D-42477 Radevormwald
Official website: www.radevormwald.de
E-Mail-Address: stadt@radevormwald.de
Politics
Mayor: Dr. Josef Korsten (SPD)

Radevormwald is a Northrhine-Westfalian municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis, about 50 km east of Cologne. Radevormwald hears to the eldest towns in the Bergischen country.

The coat of arms of Radevormwald

The arms were granted on November 7, 1934. Radevormwald was a settlement on the eastern borders of the county of Berg. It thus had strategic importance and became a city in the end of the 13th century. The lion in the arms is the lion of the Counts of Berg. The oldest seal of the city, dating from the 14th century, already shows the lion with a key. All later seals show the same image. The origin of the key is not clear. It may have had a religious meaning, but it has also been speculated that it symbolises the iron industry in the town.

In the early 20th century the arms below were shown in the Kaffee Hag albums. These arms show the same composition, but in different colours.

General description

Origin of the name

Radevormwald signifies "clearing before the wood". Also the elder name "Rotha" stands for "clearing". The cleared clearing on the 400 m high height train was invested to build a fixed place against attacking Saxony in prehistoric time.

Position

With normal zero 421 ms about NN the place was the highest situated town in the governmental district Düsseldorf and now lies in the governmental district Cologne. The neighbouring towns are Ennepetal, Breckerfeld, Halver, Wipperfürth, Hückeswagen, Remscheid and Wuppertal.

Character

The town Radevormwald is marked by theirs small and middle-class companies predominantly in the service industry. In view of the Rhine rail with the towns Cologne and Dusseldorf in the west and the transport binding is the town in a margin position. This leaves free spaces for the use of many resources in the area of nature and rest and gets thus the town a relatively high quality of life. A huge number of religious communities have found here their native country. Their churches testify from the variety.

Elder historical buildings, like in many other places of the Bergischen country, are not received. An exception forms the historical garden house in the town park which has gotten over the last town fire in the year 1802.

population density of radevormwald

Year population Year population
1792 4.320 1961 20.957
1807 3.429 1975 24.526
1826 5.383 1983 23.850
1865 8.879 1995 25.720
1900 10.446 2000 25.852
1939 13.861 2003 25.517
1946 17.159 2004 25.390



Ortschaften und Ortsteile

A Altendorf - Altenhof - Am Grimmelsberg - Auf´m Hagen
B Beck - Berg - Bergerhof - Birken - Böhlefeldshaus - Borbeck - Born - Braake - Brebach - Brunsheide - Brunshöh - Buschsiepen
D Dahlerau - Dahlhausen - Diepenbruch - Dieplingsberg
E Eich - Eistringhausen - Erlenbach - Espert
F Feckinghausen - Feldmannshaus - Felsenbeck - Filde - Filderheide - Finkensiepen - Freudenberg - Fuhr - Funkenhausen
G Geilensiepen - Grafweg - Griesensiepen - Grüne - Grünenbaum
H Hahnenberg - Harbeck - Hardt - Heide - Heidt - Heidersteg - Herbeck - Herkingrade - Hinüber - Honsberg - Hönde - Hönderbruch - Höltersiepen - Hürxtal - Hulverscheidt - Husmecke
I Im Busch - Im Hagen - Im Holte - Im Kamp - Im Walde - Im Wiesental - Im Wildental - Ispingrade
J Jakobsholt
K Kaffekanne - Karlshöh - Karthausen - Kattenbusch - Keilbeck - Kettlershaus - Klaukenburg - Knefelskamp - Kötterhaus - Kottmannshausen - Kräwinkel - Krebsöge - Krebsögersteg - Kronenberg
L Laake - Lambeck - Lambeckermühle - Langenkamp - Landwehr - Leimbecker Mühle - Leimhol - Leye - Linde - Lichteneichen - Lorenzhaus
M Milspe - Möllersbaum
N Nadelsiepen - Neuenhammer - Neuenhaus - Neuenhof - Niederdahl - Niedernfeld - Niederwönkhausen
O Oberbuschsiepen - Oberdahl - Oberdahlhauen - Obergraben - Obernfeld - Obernhof - Oberkarthausen - Oberschmittensiepen - Oedeschlenke - Önkfeld
P Pastoratshof - Plumbeck - Rechelsiepen
R Remlingrade - Rochollsberg - Rädereichen
S Scheideweg - Scheidt - Schlechtenbeck - Schmittensiepen - Schnellental - Siepen - Sieplenbusch - Sondern - Stoote - Studberg
T Tanne
U Uelfe - Ümminghausen - Umbeck - Untergraben - Unterm Busch - Unterste Mühle
V Vogelshaus - Vogelsmühle - Vor der Heide - Vor der Mark - Vorm Baum - Vorm Holte
W Waar - Walkmüllersiepen - Wellershausen - Wellringrade - Weyer - Wiebach - Wilhelmstal - Winklenburg - Wintershaus - Wönkhausen
Z Zum Hofe

In the Wuppertal barrier submerged places

  • Dörpe
  • Friedrichstal
  • Nagelsberger Gemarke
  • Oege

Wupper villages

A part of the town becomes from Wupper flowed through. This led to the fact that in the places Dahlerau, Vogelsmühle and Dahlhausen which lie in the valley of the Wupper and are called, hence, by the population "Wupperort villages" settled several textile industry. These settlements used the water for the energy production by waterwheel and later by run hydroelectric power plants for own production. With establishment of the working-class dwelling houses by the companies the population figures also increased in the Wupper villages. Also middle class settled, and, above all, in Dahlerau there were many single trading ventures. Nevertheless, by the decline of the textile industry by the end of 20th century as well as the increased mobility most shops surrendered in the Wupper villages - today many former shops are used as dwelling houses.

History

The first documentary mention and town rights

Presumably in the year 1050 the place the first time is mentioned documentary. Klaus Pampus writes in his book " documentary first namings of oberbergischer places " that Radevormwald was the cloister Werden - imperial abbey becoming in the possession and was called at this time " of Rotha".

Between 1309 and 1316 count Adolf VI von Berg the place lends the town rights. The settlement " before the wood " is 1363 in a lends document of the count Wilhelm II von Jülich Berg (as a Herzog he called Wilhelm I.) as a town enclosed with a town wall designated. Radevormwald served among the counts von Berg as border festival against Sauerland of the Brandenburg March.

The high meaning of Radevormwald in Middle Ages arises from the process that it paid mountain 166.5 Gulden for the redemption of pledged land shares of the dukedom Berg, while, e.g., Solingen raised only 88, Elberfelt 84.5 and Hückeswagen only 34.5 golden guilders.

15th century

The town prospers. Walls, towers and gates protect the settled trade of the smiths, woolen weavers and garment doers.

16th century

In the 16th century there raged two heavy town fires, the first one was in 17th July 1525.

15 years later, in the year 1540 pass parish and the clergy of the town to reformed denomination.

The second big fire of this century lays waste 1571in Radevormwald.

17th century

In the year 1620 the place is conquered by reformed Hessen under Philipp the magnanimous. Radevormwald was in the 30-year-old war (1618 to 1648) occasional headquarters and warehouse of the Spaniards and Austria he under the command from Octavio Piccolomini (a general Wallenstein ). 1635 and 1636 take Dutchman and 1638 Westphalian troops the place, 1639 the taking follows once more through Hessen. All these occupations walked along (with murder), looting en, arson en and disgrace of the civil population which was decimated by these processes drastically.

After Westphalian peace (1648) traced the Catholic duke of Berg Philipp Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg (reign 1652 to 1690) in his territory Anabaptist and Mennonites, so that many of them fled. Such a refugee was 1656 ("another specification Adolf von der Leyen from Radevormwald who brought the new trade of the silk weaving mill after Krefeld meant 1650").

18th century

In the year 1742 there was in Radevormwald famine.

19th century

In 24th August 1802 it came to the last great town fire of Radevormwald in his destructions by the literature. 1833 was recorded for the first time stagecoach local traffic in the surrounding towns and a postal institution was set up. Then by the end of the century followed also railroad, because in 1st March 1886 one celebrated the opening railroad line Remscheid - Lennep - Krebsöge - Dahlerau - Wuppertal - Oberbarmen]]. Four years later, in 3rd February 1890 a putting on one side was set up by Krebsöge to Radevormwald. All railroad lines in the environment of the town were typical Royal a Prussian railroad administration local traffic which were built within a largely invested development program from 1885 in completely Germany.

Radevormald was a station on optical Telegrafie pointer telephoto count line (1833 to 1849) from Berlin after Aachen. The location of the pointer telephoto count lay with the today's street "Am Telegraf".

1884 the municipal gasworks recorded his company on with the production (of town gas).

The 20th century up to the First World War

In the year 1910 there were two important events. With opening a railroad line after Halver that is completed railroad network around Radevormwald and in 1st July celebrates second-eldest youth hostel of the world, at the same time first in Rhineland, her inauguration.

The 20th century till 1945

Radevormwald develops to the industry location. Resident trades: lock-, files-, bike-, paper-,ice- skate-, construction fitting factories, engine industry and textile industry, worsted spinneries and cloth factories.

In the morning in 26th May 1928 an airplane crashed at 8.15 o'clock from the type Junkers F13 Lufthansa in the local share Hahnenberg on the " Schlegelschen meadow “. Besides, three people were killed. 1934 the gasworks with the connection in Pipeline in November of the year hire the own-label record of town gas.

The 20th century from 1945

Bismarck's two-wheeled vehicles

In the year 1957 the production from Bismarck (two-wheeled vehicle) ends in Bergerhof.

The railway accident of Dahlerau

On the 27th May 1971 in the evening German Federal Railroad]] as a special train railroad line Wuppertal - Oberbarmen - drove propelling carriage at that time on Radevormwald (Wuppertal road). The train was fully taken with a school first-class on her graduation journey and had about 30 minutes of delay. The propelling carriage was shortly before the railway station in Dahlerau. One against the coming freight train should wait, actually, in the railway station of Dahlerau, however, went on in spite of from train controller with his flashlight of signaled hold command. Train driver of the freight train was not informed of the delay. About 1,100 ms behind the railway station both trains collided. The engine carriage of the rail bus unit two-part was destroyed with the impact almost completely, in the misfortune{accident} 46 passengers came to death, of it 41 pupils. 25 passengers were seriously injured mostly. The procedure of the misfortune can be exactly reconstructed no more, because the train controller of the railway station died short time after the event with a car accident. The surviving train driver of the freight train stated in the examination, the train controller has signaled dimmed portable lamp the free way through to him with his green. None of the railway stations this local traffic line had an railway - exit signal.

Almost all of the dead pupils and female pupils received on the municipal cemetery in Radevormwald a common graveyard and a stone monument with the inscription: "mind of four hoists comes along and breathes on these dead people, with thus them vividly become" ( „Komme Geist von den vier Winden herbei und hauche diese Toten an, damit sie lebendig werden“). The accident was up to intercity express misfortune in Eschede the most momentous casualty railroad in old Federal Republic of Germany.

From 1975 - Radevormwald in Oberbergischer Kreis

In 1st January 1975 it is resolved of the Rhein-Wupper-Kreises and Radevormwald Oberbergischer Kreis is slammed. A year later, 28th May 1976 takes place last regular passenger traffic on railroad in Radevormwald.

Already since 1950 to years the construction of the Wuppertal dam was planned, middle 1980 years are closed the many years' preparations, and with the construction is begun. Numerous places must get ragged, because 1987 the dam is initiated in Krebsöge. In the same year the by-pass road of the B 237 is opened.

His name as a sports town Radevormwald 1990 tries to be raked with the inauguration of the stadium in the Kollenberg and the indoor swimming pool "Aquafun". However, these efforts suffer 2004 a repercussion when the land sport school is closed down.

Culture

Destinations

In the environment lie different dams and reservoirs, among the rest, it closes Wuppertal dam, Bevertal dam, Neyetal dam closes (Wipperfürth), Ennepe dam ( Breckerfeld), Heilenbecker dam and Schevelinger dam.

  • Uelfebad, former outdoor swimming pool layout (in winter with suitable weather a physical ice rink) with restaurant
  • Leisure layout Kräwinklerbrücke, also starting point for footpaths around the Wuppertal dam.

Church building

If one looks at town views of Radevormwald, a rare skyline comes up. In a short part four church buildings are to be seen all at once:

Further churches are in the local share Remlingrade (Protestan Church), in the Wallenberg (Protestan Church) as well as in the local share Dahlerau (Protestan and a Catholic church).

Monuments

Mills (also historical mills)

  • "Hees mill" (also: the Lowest mill): today the earlier mill is led than gastronomic company. Leftovers (of the meal plant) s still exist.
  • "Luhner mill": the mill existing no more today lay in immediate neighborhood to the Leimholer mill.
  • "Leimholer mill" in the Uelfe brook: she has received her name of the place Leimhol.
  • "Lambecker mill": about the mill itself nothing is known. The concept "Becke" designates a brook in the Low German linguistic space and finds itself in a huge number of assembly-line body of water name of the region. The place Lambeck was mentioned in the year 1789 "as a "Langenbeck" (= "Long brook").
  • "Neuenhammer": This mill was hammer plant in Uelfe brook. Only the local name and a building ensemble with a trout breeding has been left.
  • "Uppermost mill " in Uelfe brook: today also this affectionately restored former mill is a catering trade company.
  • "Stooter mill" the Stooter mill was a grain mill in Bever (Wupper). It was registered 1828 in the ancient land register as those and was also called "Stötermühle". 1902 the mill for the construction old Bevertal dam got ragged.
  • "Bird's mill": a mill existing no more for a long time. In the year 1804 there was in the today's place Vogelsmühle a Fulling mill. She was with thus the precursor for a cloth industry developing at the place.
  • "Wiebach mill": the mill of exit of the Wiebach valley was exited 1956. Today the brook Wiebach from the Wuppertal dam floods the area.

Regular arrangements

Health service

For the stationary supply of the population that is responsible [[[Johanniter]] hospital.

Personalities

Twin towns





the coat of arms Nümbrecht Towns and municipalities in Oberbergischer Kreis

Bergneustadt | Engelskirchen | Gummersbach | Hückeswagen | Lindlar | Marienheide | Morsbach | Nümbrecht | Radevormwald | Reichshof | Waldbröl | Wiehl | Wipperfürth

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