Elberfeld
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Elberfeld is a municipal subdivision of the German city of Wuppertal; it was an independent town until 1929.
History
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.
In 1726, Elias Eller and a pastor, Daniel Schleyermacher, founded a Philadelphian Society. They later moved to Ronsdorf in the Duchy of Berg, becoming the Zionites, a fringe sect.
In 1826
In 1888 the district of Sonnborn was incorporated into Elberfeld. In 1929 the towns of Barmen, Elberfeld, Vohwinkel, Cronenberg and Ronsdorf became a municipal entity officially called "Barmen-Elberfeld;" in the same year, the unified city administration through a vote of its council members decided to rename the newly incorporated city "Wuppertal." This took place in 1930. Today Elberfeld is the largest municipal subdivision of Wuppertal.
Notable people
- Greta Bösel (1908–1947), concentration camp guard executed for war crimes
- Arno Breker, sculptor
- Heinz Thilo, SS war criminal
- East Germanpolitician
- Karl Germer, Outer Head of Ordo Templi Orientis (1947–1962)
- Will Glahé, accordionist, composer, and bandleader
- Carl Grossberg, artist
- Theodor Hausmann (1880–1972), composer
- August von der Heydt (1801–1874), economist
- Eduard von der Heydt (1882–1964), banker
- Walter Kaufmann (physicist), physicist
- Hans Knappertsbusch, conductor
- Erich Koch, NSDAP Gauleiter of East Prussia, Reichskommissar of Ukraine
- Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrugge, minister
- Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher, minister
- Johann Peter Lange, Protestant theologian
- Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945), poet
- Wilhelm Neumann-Torborg, sculptor[1]
- Friedrich Philippi, historian
- Julius Plücker, mathematician and physicist
- Eugene Plumacher (1838–1910), emigrant to the United States, diplomat
- Sigurd Raschèr, saxophonist
- Paul Ortwin Rave, art historian and director of the Berlin National Gallery
- Fritz Roeber (1851–1924), painter
- Sir Hans Wolfgang Singer, economist
- Johannes Steele (1908–1988), journalist
- Horst Stein (1901–1989), conductor
- Horst Tappert (1923–2008), actor
- Edward Thonen (1827-1854), emigrant to Australia, leader of Eureka Rebellion
- Günter Wand (1912–2002), conductor
- Carl Wirths (1897–1955), politician
- Sulamith Wülfing, artist
See also
51°16′N 7°08′E / 51.267°N 7.133°E
References
- ^ "Beiträge zur Geschichte und Heimatkunde des Wuppertals, Volumes 12-18" (in German). 1966. Retrieved 30 November 2015.