Monchengladbach

Monchengladbach is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is positioned west of the Rhine, halfway among Dusseldorf and the Dutch border. The authentic call of the metropolis become Gladbach, that is even nowadays often carried out to the city. To distinguish the town from every other city of the same call, it took the name Munchen-Gladbach in 1888. Between 1933 and 1950 it changed into written Munchen Gladbach, with out hyphen. This spelling should lie to human beings to suppose that Gladbach turned into a borough of Munich, and therefore the name changed into changed to Monchen-Gladbach in 1950 and Monchengladbach in 1960.

The beginning of the city changed into an abbey based in 974. It was named after the Gladbach, a slender brook, that more often than not runs underground nowadays. The abbey and adjacent villages became a city inside the 14th century. The metropolis of Rheydt is located close by and is included into Monchengladbach nowadays. The 2d part of the name, Gladbach originates from Low German and way canalised move, relating to the small river that became artificially canalised in early medieval times. In Limburgisch, the regional dialect, laid is said gelaat, a word which ultimately evolved to glad. The 2d a part of the word, bach is the standard German phrase for a small flow.