Gummersbach

Gummersbach is the county seat of the Oberbergischer Kreis in the district of Cologne in North Rhine Westphalia. Gummersbach changed into formerly known as Lindenstadt, as linden bushes covered the principle street. Until the 1920s, the citizens known as their city additionally Klein Paris. Today Gummersbach is the most essential center in the Oberbergischer Kreis and regarded for its handball Bundesliga membership, the VfL Gummersbach.

The first relaxed mention of the vicinity dates from the 12 months 1109. A record Archbishop Friedrich I of Cologne is worried, inter alia, with the discount of the Cathedral tax for ecclesia que est in gumeresbracht Very possibly for the plant of the place is the half of the 9th century. Leading linguists contradicted in 2011 the idea that the Cologne Archbishop Gunther acted as initiator and probable eponym. Currently, it is very probably that the naming of the personal call Gundmar or Gummar in the genitive form Gumer or Gummer in reference to the attachment of a unmarried farm already in 7. To 8. Century passed off.