- Bergisches Land
The Bergisches Land is a region in
North Rhine-Westphalia inGermany . It contains beside the tri-city area ofRemscheid -Solingen -Wuppertal the districtMettmann ,Leverkusen , the Rheinisch-Bergisch district, the Oberbergisch district and parts of the Rhein-Sieg district. It emerged from the Dukedom of Berg. The name of the region is not derived from its mountainous terrain (German: "Berg"= mountain), but from the dukes of Berg. The dukes of Berg lived first in the Castle "Berge" in Altenberg, later then in the Castle "Schloss Burg" at theWupper .Düsseldorf was the capital.Geography
Historic-geographic borderline
The state of Berg contained mainly the tri-city area
Remscheid -Solingen -Wuppertal , the districtMettmann ,Leverkusen , the Rheinisch-Bergisch district, large parts of the Oberbergisch district and the parts of the Rhein-Sieg district on the right side of theRhine . Also,Mülheim , parts ofCologne ,Duisburg andOberhausen belonged to the state of Berg.Borderline in the local awareness today
Today, even in the awareness of the population, a sense of belonging to the Bergisches Land is sometimes no longer existent. Most notably in the region of the
Cologne Bight and theRuhr this happens. There the people see themselves more associated with theRhineland or theRuhr area .The relationship ofDüsseldorf and the Bergisches Land is complex: historic Düsseldorf was the capital of the Bergisches Land, as you can see at Düsseldorf's coat of arms (it consists of the lion of Berg), but today the inhabitants of Düsseldorf see themselve more belonging to theRhineland Cities and districts
ee also
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Berg (state)
*Oberbergischer Kreis
*Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis
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