Bergisch Gladbach

Bergisch Gladbach is a large district city in Bergisches Land in North Rhine Westphalia. As a district town, it is also the center of the Rheinisch Bergischer Kreis. It borders Cologne without delay to the west and Leverkusen to the north. Both are impartial cities. Follow in a clockwise course Odenthal, Kurten, Overath and Rosrath, all of which belong to the Rheinisch Bergischer Kreis. With about 100 and 10,000 inhabitants, it's far one of the smaller towns in Germany.

The present town was created on 1 January 1975 as part of the territorial reform in North Rhine Westphalia, as the vintage town Bergisch Gladbach with the aid of the Cologne Act with the hitherto impartial metropolis of Bensberg and the village Schildgen, which belonged to the municipality Odenthal, the brand new city Bergisch Gladbach was united. The merger in 1977, the population may want to exceed 100,000, making Bergisch Gladbach huge town. The antique city Bergisch Gladbach become first documented in 1271 as Gladebag. The vicinity later have become the nucleus of a place consisting of a large range of residential areas. He belonged to the county or the Duchy of Berg and was controlled via a magistrate from Porz.