Elberfeld
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Elberfeld () is a municipal subdivision of the German city of Wuppertal; it was an independent town until 1929.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Elberfeld
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Urban district
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Reichsbahndirektion Elberfeld, Wuppertal-0113.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- View of Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof located in the Elberfeld district
- Settlement.image_shield
- DEU Elberfeld COA.svg
- Settlement.etymology
- Elverfelde
- Settlement.image_map
- Stadt Elberfeld Lage.png
- Settlement.map_caption
- Historic extent of Elberfeld within Wuppertal
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- quarter
- Country
- German Empire
- Located in
- Rhine Province
- Population
- 167382
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Body of water
- Wupper
- Official website
- www.wuppertal.de
- Image
- Elberfeld 1899.jpg
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- P6814
- Elberfeld
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Elberfeld
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Elberfeld
- Commons category
- Elberfeld (borough)
- P8168
- Tieffenbach
- native label
- Elberfeld
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- History
- Notable people
- See also
- References
Elberfeld () is a municipal subdivision of the German city of Wuppertal; it was an independent town until 1929.
==History== thumb|left|The Wuppertal Schwebebahn|suspension railway of Elberfeld was built over the river in order to keep the streets unobstructed. thumb|Elberfeld ca. 1899 thumb|Bond of the former town Elberfeld, issued 1. March 1922 The first official mentioning of the geographic area on the banks of today's Wupper River as "elverfelde" was in a document of 1161. Etymologically, elver is derived from the old Low German word for "river." (See etymology of the name of the German Elbe River; cf. North Germanic älv.) Therefore, the original meaning of "elverfelde" can be understood as "field on the river." Elverfelde received its town charter in 1610.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Elberfeld” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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