Wuppertal

Wuppertal is with 353,590 populations 31 December 2017 the biggest town and the commercial, economic, educational and cultural middle of the Bergisches Land. The City inside the Green is positioned south of the Ruhr region and is the seventeenth largest metropolis in Germany one of the regional centers of North Rhine Westphalia.

The metropolis turned into founded on August 1, 1929 by means of the union of the impartial towns Elberfeld town since approximately 1883 and Barmen town seeing that about 1884 and the cities Ronsdorf, Cronenberg and Vohwinkel beneath the call Barmen Elberfeld as a city without a circle and in 1930 after a citizen survey in Wuppertal renamed, whereby the geographic scenario of the town on the river valley became expressed. The topography is characterized by the valley of the Wupper, which winds across the town for approximately 20 km and whose steep slopes are often forested. The southern districts are merging into the meadows and forests of the Bergisches Land.