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.

view on the woods o Burg wi a typical Bergisches fermerhoose

History

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

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

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