Bergisches Land
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The Bergisches Land is a region in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It contains beside the tri-city area of Remscheid-Solingen-Wuppertal the district Mettmann, 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 at the Wupper. Düsseldorf was the capital.
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[edit] Geography
[edit] Historic-geographic borderline
The state of Berg contained mainly the tri-city area Remscheid-Solingen-Wuppertal, the district Mettmann, Leverkusen, the Rheinisch-Bergisch district, large parts of the Oberbergisch district and the parts of the Rhein-Sieg district on the right side of the Rhine. Also, Mülheim, parts of Cologne, Duisburg and Oberhausen belonged to the state of Berg.
[edit] 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 the Ruhr this happens. There the people see themselves more associated with the Rhineland or the Ruhr area. The relationship of Düsseldorf 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 the Rhineland
[edit] Cities and districts
| City/district | affiliation | Part of the dukedom Berg (1789) | Part of the Bergisches Land in local awareness | |
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Bad Honnef | Rhein-Sieg-Kreis | X | |
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Bergisch Gladbach | Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis | X | X |
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Bergneustadt | Oberbergischer Kreis | X | X |
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Burscheid | Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis | X | X |
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Düsseldorf | no affiliation | X | |
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Eitorf | Rhein-Sieg-Kreis | X | X |
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Engelskirchen | Oberbergischer Kreis | X | X |
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Erkrath | Kreis Mettmann | X | X |
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Gummersbach | Oberbergischer Kreis | X | |
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Haan | Kreis Mettmann | X | X |
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Heiligenhaus | Kreis Mettmann | X | X |
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Hennef | Rhein-Sieg-Kreis | X | X |
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Hilden | Kreis Mettmann | X | X |
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Hückeswagen | Oberbergischer Kreis | X | X |
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Kürten | Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis | X | X |
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Langenfeld | Kreis Mettmann | X | X |
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Leichlingen | Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis | X | X |
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Leverkusen | no affiliation | X | X |
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Lindlar | Oberbergischer Kreis | X | X |
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Lohmar | Rhein-Sieg-Kreis | X | X |
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Marienheide | Oberbergischer Kreis | X | |
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Mettmann | Kreis Mettmann | X | X |
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Monheim | Kreis Mettmann | X | X |
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Morsbach | Oberbergischer Kreis | X | X |
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Much | Rhein-Sieg-Kreis | X | X |
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Mülheim an der Ruhr | no affiliation | X | |
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Neunkirchen-Seelscheid | Rhein-Sieg-Kreis | X | X |
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Niederkassel | Rhein-Sieg-Kreis | X | |
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Nümbrecht | Oberbergischer Kreis | X | |
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Odenthal | Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis | X | X |
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Overath | Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis | X | X |
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Ratingen | Kreis Mettmann | X | X |
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Radevormwald | Oberbergischer Kreis | X | X |
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Reichshof | Oberbergischer Kreis | X | X |
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Remscheid | no affiliation | X | X |
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Rösrath | Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis | X | X |
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Ruppichteroth | Rhein-Sieg-Kreis | X | X |
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Sankt Augustin | Rhein-Sieg-Kreis | X | |
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Siegburg | Rhein-Sieg-Kreis | X | |
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Solingen | no affiliation | X | X |
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Troisdorf | Rhein-Sieg-Kreis | X | |
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Velbert | Kreis Mettmann | X | X |
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Waldbröl | Oberbergischer Kreis | X | X |
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Wermelskirchen | Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis | X | X |
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Wiehl | Oberbergischer Kreis | X | |
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Windeck | Rhein-Sieg-Kreis | X | X |
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Wipperfürth | Oberbergischer Kreis | X | X |
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Wülfrath | Kreis Mettmann | X | X |
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Wuppertal | no affiliation | X | X |
