Gladbeck

Gladbeck is a city within the district of Recklinghausen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Gladbeck is quite a young metropolis, first recognized 21 July 1919 when it become given metropolis rights. The metropolis mounted itself round 5 farming villages, Brauck, Butendorf, Ellinghorst, Rentfort and Zweckel. Early archeological unearths show a population within the place of Gladbeck already in approximately 2000 BC. It became first cited in 1020 as Gladbeki and turned into at the beginning a small village of 300 population. The village with its five peasantries turned into arranged round St. Lamberti cathedral. From 1180 to 1802 Gladbeck belonged to the Vest Recklinghausen and become therefore linked with the Electorate of Cologne.

A certificate from 1236 mentions Knight Ludolfus de Wittering who is most in all likelihood to have erected Wittringen Castle round that time. Especially all through the first years of the Thirty Years' War many cornfields in and around Gladbeck were destroyed by marauding soldiers. Additionally, the Black Death killed many population of Gladbeck within the Thirty Years' War. At the 1815 Congress of Vienna the Kingdom of Prussia obtained the place and administered it in the Province of Westphalia. Before the Revolutions of 1848 there had been three awful meals crises in Gladbeck in 1816/17, 1830/31 and 1846/47. However, the "March Revolution" had no outcomes on Gladbeck.